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Seven Couplets to Ponder or Ignore
1
Wisdom comes from roots and stones,
Often from the sparrow’s bones.
2
Sending healing thoughts to you!
Hope you’re better, yes, I do!
3
Lines unfolding one by one—
All too soon my work is done.
4
In the realm of string and twine,
Will you be my valentine?
5
Lessons near the frigid coast
Are the ones I hate the most!
6
If your foremother should come,
Toot a horn and pound a drum!
7
Spirit wide and Spirit deep,
Do not make me, Spirit, weep.
Couplets © 2020 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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There’s Wisdom
There’s wisdom in what’s dulcet,
And wisdom in what’s tart.
The old grow ripe with longing
For youth’s resilient heart.
Time proves our ground of being
To be both false and stale.
Come, my friend, let’s toast the dead
With green and bitter ale.
Poem © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Desolate
Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Desolate places—
something akin to wisdom
lingers in the stones.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Gathering
Agave in bloom, April 2016, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
gathering wisdom
from sky and lizard and stone—
agave blossoms
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Fragrance
Creosote bush blossom, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
a single blossom
sweetening the wilderness—
fragrance of wisdom
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Willing
Stones in an arroyo, Apache County, Northern Arizona
raven, wind and stone
willing to teach the humble
wisdom’s hidden ways
Haiku © 2015 and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blossom
Metal flower sculpture, Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona
one scarlet blossom
leading the way to wisdom
among the ruins
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Stories
Prickly Poppy (Argemone pleiacantha), Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona, April 2015
gathering wisdom
in the shadow of the thorn—
stories no one tells
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Waiting
Sunset, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
waiting for a dream
underneath the wisdom tree—
still I clutch a twig
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Scrap
Aztec Ruins, Aztec, New Mexico
a scrap of wisdom
nestling in the ruined walls—
pilgrim souls rejoice
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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