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Voice of Silver
Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.
From the children’s nursery comes a Silver Voice:
“The Willow Tree seems lost now, and you have no choice
But to seek until you find her, seek both near and far,
Seek beneath the stump and boulder, seek where dragons are.
Do not let unrest dissuade you from the task at hand.
Courage, sister! Courage, brother! Don’t you understand
That skies and stars and planets all depend on you?
Gird yourselves with courage, and do what you must do!
Destroy fierce Dragon Burdock that threatens Willow’s ways;
Then, with all things great and small, in peace live out your days.”
We hear you, Voice of Silver, we hear you, Voice of Old;
With courage as our mantle, we’ll do as we are told.
Poem © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Macro Monday 2: Tree
A weathered tree in the desert, Yuma County, Arizona.
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Tangled
An orange tree in need of pruning in a Phoenix, Arizona backyard
Through tangled branches
no one can see the new moon,
even at midnight.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Uncommon Questions
What do night, an owl, and a rose
have in common?
Do the birds know what caused
the sun to rise this morning?
If you found the caws of crows
in an oak tree,
would you leave them there
or put them in your pocket?
Why are you perched in the oak,
ready to flee?
Poem © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Cover
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
October morning—
a wounded bird takes cover
in a tangled tree.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Crow
El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico
Crow in the pine tree,
will you ever stop mocking
what you can’t explain?
Haiku 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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Wren
A tree with broken branches near the shores of Willow Lake, Prescott, Arizona
Can the shattered tree,
wren who seeks a nesting place,
hold your featherweight?
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Photograph
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
In the photograph
one dark tree tries to withstand
a winter sunrise.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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