Thunderhead
Thunderhead in the sky /
I watch you blithely float by. /
Why no rain? Say why.
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Monthly Archives: May 2025
Haiku to you Thursday: “Listened”
Listened
We sat and listened. /
When does breeze become wind? /
Leaves and chimes opined.
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#wind #chimes #breeze #listened #leaves #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #senryu #davidebooker #may #thursday #031923p #052225t #2025
“Desire”
Desires
Through its own desires, /
the Virginia Spiderwort /
returns and blooms.
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“Ripe”
Ripe
Reach for your today. /
Blueberry is ripe when ripe. /
Celebrate it now.
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#ripe #celebrate #blueberry #today #reach #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #monday #051925 #2025
“Battlefield”
A British sentry cuts a lonely picture as he stands at his post at sunrise in France, March 1915.
Battlefield
Battlefield sentry, /
fearing with the sunrise that /
fog and hope will lift.
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“Hail Mary”
Hail Mary
The Hail Mary here /
Is neither pass nor prayer /
But hope for the creek.
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#hailmary #pass #prayer #hope #creek #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #firstcreekgreenway #davidebooker #bethabooker #may #050518 #2018
“Harsh”
Harsh
Harsh, the sky, burns gray /
a smoldering blanket over /
over soil and sail.
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#haiku, #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #harsh #sky #blanket #sail #soul #may #saturday #051725 #2025
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Devil’s love
Devil’s love
Love-in-a-Mist is /
also Devil-in-a-bush. /
Such is motherhood.
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#devil #love #mist #bush #motherhood #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #sunday #051224 #2024
Photo finish Friday: “First”
First
Yellow and skyward, /
the first Susan of the season. /
Flower and freedom.
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#first #yellow #skyward #Susan #season #flower #freedom #haiku #poem # poetry #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #051425tp #may #friday #2025 #051625 #photobynataliekurylo
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Delicacy–a sad, sad false delicacy
“Delicacy–a sad, sad false delicacy–robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.” – Letter to W. D. Howells, 9/19/1877
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