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Saguaro flowers
Saguaro cactus blossoms, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Saguaro flowers glowing
Against the bright blue sky
Fill me with greatest pleasure,
And here’s the reason why:
I think there’s nothing finer
Than seeing a white bloom
Juxtaposed against the sky
To chase away my gloom.
Poem and photo © 2017 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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News in cactus land
Saguaro cactus, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
What’s the news in cactus land?
What’s the TV say?
Is there any hope that rain
Will settle dust today?
Maybe someone has a tip
I can take to heart.
Wait! There’s always NPR—
I’ve heard folks there are smart!
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “News Media”
Blossom
Saguaro cactus blossoms, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Yellow butterfly,
does the white blossom please you?
Will you settle there?
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blooms
Cholla cactus blossom, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Only in the desert sands
Do cacti thrive and bloom,
Not on crowded city streets
Where there’s no breathing room.
If you find a place of sand,
Where human prints are few,
There the lowly cactus waits
To show its blooms to you.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “A Grain of Sand”
Nostalgia
Rusting tractor, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
longing for the days
when the little tractor plowed
furrows straight and true
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Nostalgia”
Blue Monday
Part of a sign promoting clean lakes and streams, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Whenever rivers flow clear,
Fish can breathe and thrive;
But in polluted waters,
You won’t find fish alive.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Lodging
Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
on a lonely path
ten thousand pilgrim footprints
lodging in the dust
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Faithful
Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Do fishes have faith?
Or how about palms?
Only the faithful
Live life without qualms.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Faith”
Pipe
A broken pipe at Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Can your friend fix this pipe?
Text and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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