
Arrival
Busy are the bees: /
arriving, leaving, buzzing, /
feeding. Fall whispers.
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Arrival
Busy are the bees: /
arriving, leaving, buzzing, /
feeding. Fall whispers.
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Patterns
“Wings,” said Icarus.
“Freedom,” offered Daedalus.
“Death,” decreed the Sun.
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Filed under 2021, haiku, photo by David E. Booker, Poetry by David E. Booker

Evening
Evening summer starts /
Sunlight shadows sunflowers. /
Cicadas sing dusk.
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Leaf
Return to the Earth /
All that was once bright and green. /
Death nibbles at noon.
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Unloose the Zeus
upon these Olympic games.
Make room for his use;
to leave him out is our shame.
He’s the reason for the season,
be it winter or be it summer.
To ban him is but treason
and nothing short of a bummer.
Unloose the Zeus.
Do it now, I command.
And don your birthday suits,
play the games as originally planned.
Filed under 2016, 2021, humor, Poetry by David E. Booker, Saturday, Silly Saturday

Turn over
Cat looks up; you down. /
Ground is the sky is the ground. /
Stardust at your feet.
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Hanging
Some mornings don’t work. /
You try your best to succeed /
But you can’t hang on.
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The once was a writer with a bucket,
Who threw his drafts in it, because they “suck it.”
One day a thief came by
And with his bucket she did hie.
Now she has a bestseller. O’ the luck of it.

The Glade
Yes, the irony /
Is clear to me /
How you define being brave. /
If it can be done /
With your gun, /
Then my life can’t be saved. /
But wear a mask /
A simple task /
And you holy rant and rave. /
Over your dead body, /
And this said hotly, /
You to the world vouchsafe. /
Your creed is clear. /
It is death you hold dear, /
A charging bull in the glade. /
For another’s life /
No sacrifice /
Can ever or today be made. /
Compassion has died, /
Empathy hied, /
But with your gun you’re brave. /
You’re cold, dead hands /
Stretch across this land, /
But there is nothing to save. /
That shot in your arm /
You feared would cause you harm, /
Has no hope for you today. /
You’re the Bull Without the Mask /
And your soul’s task /
Is to drive life forever from the glade.
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Filed under 2021, guns, poem, Poetry by David E. Booker, rhyming poetry

Work day
Bee has no time clock. /
Only sun, life, instinct, work. /
Grace in the effort.
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Filed under 2021, haiku, photo, photo by David E. Booker, Poetry by David E. Booker