Category Archives: 2021

Haiku to you Thursday: “Arrival”

Arrival

Busy are the bees: /

arriving, leaving, buzzing, /

feeding. Fall whispers.

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Haiku and poem: “Patterns”

Patterns

“Wings,” said Icarus.

“Freedom,” offered Daedalus.

“Death,” decreed the Sun.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #wings #freedom #death #Icarus #Daedalus #sun #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #2021

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Haiku and photo: “Evening”

Evening

Evening summer starts /

Sunlight shadows sunflowers. /

Cicadas sing dusk.

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#poem #poetry #haiku #cicadas #summer #sunflower #evening #sunlight #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #august #monday #2021

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Haiku and photo: “Leaf”

Leaf

Return to the Earth /

All that was once bright and green. /

Death nibbles at noon.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #death #nibbles #noon #green #flower #bright #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #sunday #2021

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Saturday silliness: “Unloose the Zeus”

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.

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Haiku to you Thursday: “Turn over”

Turn over

Cat looks up; you down. /

Ground is the sky is the ground. /

Stardust at your feet.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #photo #stardust #feet #sky #ground #cat #you #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #August #thursday #2021

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Haiku and photo: “Hanging”

Hanging

Some mornings don’t work. /
You try your best to succeed /
But you can’t hang on.
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#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #mornings #hangon #succeed #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #2021

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Monday morning writing joke: “Writer’s bucket”

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.

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“The Glade”

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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Haiku and photo: “Work day”

Work day

Bee has no time clock. /

Only sun, life, instinct, work. /

Grace in the effort.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #bee #clock #grace #life #sun #instinct #work #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #photo #july #saturday #2021

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