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Matins
Palo verde tree just before sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
wilderness matins—
a new song spills from your beak,
little desert dove
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Lone
Indigo bush, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Lone indigo bush—
not even a mourning dove
clings to its branches.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Symphony
Sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
desert symphony—
the first glorious movement
begins at daybreak
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Windless
Indigo bush blossoms, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
a windless morning
no movement among blossoms
littering the ground
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Piping
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
a dove keeps piping
beyond the distant mountains
endless notes of joy
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Benediction
Daybreak, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
The benediction of early morning shadows…
Text and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Moment
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
At any moment
a mourning dove may alight
on the leafless tree.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Warriors
Two saguaro cacti seem to be battling each other at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
Sometimes in this world you see things that are strange.
I once saw two cactuses out on the range,
And swear they were punching out each other’s lights—
It was one of those weird and wonderful sights.
I wonder if that’s the way things go on Earth:
Contentions beginning the moment of birth.
Does anyone think that all warring will cease,
So all of Earth’s creatures can revel in peace?
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
War
Cholla cactus blossoms at daybreak, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
You’d think that a cactus would welcome the light.
Instead, it was fighting with all of its might
The vanishing darkness, the lengthening day—
How strange was the battle I saw by the way!
The battle continues, or so I am told;
The stones and the sands repeat stories of old.
The warring goes on between darkness and light,
With cactuses getting caught up in the fight.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Cholla
Cholla cactus at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
Little cactus wren,
your nest in the tall cholla
blew away last night!
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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