Category Archives: 2021

Haiku and photo: “Stalk”

Stalk

The rose does not bloom. /

The morning glory entwines, /

blooms on borrowed stalk.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #rose #vine #morningglory #blooms #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #september #saturday #2021

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Haiku and photo: “Jim’s”

Jim’s

Canvas reveals world /

From six decades in the past. /

Pigment dreams of Jim’s.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #pigment #canvas #painting #photo #oldnorthknoxville #painting #September

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Imagine, if you will…

Imagine, if you will…

Imagine, if you will,

A people so shrill,

They scream for their rights,

But are ready to kill.

Responsibility — not theirs

And they have no cares,

Except to fight,

When asked to community share.

To wear a simple mask

Is an onerous task,

And with all their might,

Many refused to get vaxxed.

They have their excuses

Or claim it’s all ruses.

It’s all government oversight

Or power abuses.

The hospitals are clogged,

And the cases are logged,

“Unvaccinated flight”

Leaves healthcare workers agog.

Now children are dying,

But GOP politicians are crying.

They say their dead right

To stop even trying.

Go get some invermectin,

Or your grandma’s canning pectin.

Take it tonight to fight

Left-wing insurrection.

It will rid you of parasites

And any sense of the real right,

Like civil responsibility,

To all lives: one and many.

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Haiku and photo: “Windows”

Windows

Wind eye to window. /

Open, closed, and shaded. /

Port to portal peek.

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#wind #eye #window #port #portal #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photo #september #monday #2021

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Monday morning writing joke: “A Labor (day) of Love”

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September 6, 2021 · 1:09 am

Haiku and photo: “Here, gone”

Here, gone

Rain drops fill buckets. /

Memories fill lifetimes. /

Here, gone, nourishing.

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#rain #buckets #memories #lifetimes #gone #nourishing #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #sunday #2021

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Haiku and photo: “Hurricane rain”

Hurricane rain

Her hurricane rain: /

Tattered, battered, liquid skirt. /

Dignity falling.

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#hurricane #rain #skirt #dignity #falling #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #august #2021

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Haiku and photo: “Know-where”

Know-where

Nowhere, you know me /

Alone in your majesty. /

Find you and you me.

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Monday morning writing joke: “Happy”

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If not, follow the instructions and bite me.

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Photo finish Friday: “Eating”

Eating

Aliens ate light. /

Time travels to the missing. /

Flowers in the sun.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #sun #flower #sunflower #timetravel #aliens #light #ate #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #friday #2021

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