Category Archives: 2023

“Broken”

Broken

Moments broken: tools, /

promises, meals tossed aside, /

love, and Humpty, too.

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Monday morning writing joke: “The Fog is Afoot”

The Fog is Afoot

The fog is afoot.

The door is ajar.

The jam is on the highway.

The toast is in the bar.

The world is elemental

Or maybe it’s just gone nuts.

I would lie next to you

But truth be we’d be abut.

You can be in arrears,

But you won’t have more than one.

Things aren’t as they appear,

But a pear ripens in the sun.

I can pucker my lips

If you want to buss,

Or I can look very foolish

As you mount the bus.

You can mount a stead

Or even a campaign

At the end of the day

The results may amount to pain.

There is no anear,

But the stars are afar.

We can be in accord,

But not in a musical bar.

The measure of a man

Maybe of little note.

But notes in a measure

Keep the song afloat.

So is a song a boat

Afloat on a river?

Oar are we lost at sea

Our arrows and us aquiver?

Love is a mystery,

The deepest some have said.

I don’t know, though

It may all soon come to ahead.

You could be apart

Or a part of loving pair

Love is a strange feeling

That the estranged do not share.

So, is the fog afoot?

Is the door ajar?

Is love as near

As a falling star?

If you’re in a jam,

Can you be in a preserve,

Or is that only something

fruit and animals deserve?

Lovers have forever asked

And Philosophers have refrained,

If to be in love is love.

Is to be insane sane?

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“Graveyard”

Graveyard

Do not wrong the dead. /

The graveyard is full of fools /

who in life found none.

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Photo finish Friday: “Remnant dream”

Remnant dream

Remnant winter art, /

sunflower stalk stands alone, /

withered summer dream.

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“Promises”

Promises

Once upon a time /

the fairy tale promises. /

If only it were true.

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“Evening”

Rain on daffodils. /

Rebirth in February. /

Evening in my heart.

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“MoAnday”

MoAnday

It’s that dreaded day again,

The one that follows what should have been,

The day that’s missing an A,

They day that should be MoAnday.

I want to wrap myself in paper towels

To avoid the thunderous scowls,

The rain of terror, “aren’t you done yet!”

As I sit on the coffee pot and try to forget.

Oh, where art thou my pride?

Oh, this Moanday I can’t abide.

Oh, you’re hiding in the paper towels, too?

What, now, am I supposed to do?

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#020623

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A puny thought to lighten your day.

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“One”

One

Gathered over days, /

raindrops in a wheelbarrow, /

frozen into one.

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“Saturday”

Saturday

Heat on the cold street./

Saturday Night Live lights, sounds. /

Sirens serenade.

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#sirens, #saturday #heat #street #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #020423 #2023

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