Category Archives: 2026

Haiku to you Thursday: “View”

View

Be unafraid of /

viewing an Iris as though /

it were your last.

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#view #iris #unafraid #last #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #april #thursday #042326 #2026

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“Iris”

Iris

Standard and style arm, /

beard, branch, bud, and stalk: body /

in shade and sunlight.

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#iris #standard, #stylearm, #beard? #branch, #bud, #shade #sunlight #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #april #tuesday #042126 #2026

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“Dead metaphor”

Dead metaphor

Dead metaphor: /

I hold in my trembling hands /

new tools and old hates.

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#dead #metaphors #hands #tools #hates #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #davidebooker #april #sunday #041926 #2026

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“Echoes”

Echoes

Even through wildness /

of chaos overgrown /

your beauty echoes.

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#echoes #wildness #chaos #overgrown #beauty #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #april #saturday #041826 #2026

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Photo finish Friday: “Roses”

Roses

Rose petals unfold, /

delicate but embracing; /

beauty blooms then leaves.

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#roses #petals #beauty #delicate #embracing #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #april #friday #041726 #2026

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Photo finish Friday: “Roses”

Roses

Rose petals unfold, /

delicate but embracing; /

beauty blooms then leaves.

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#roses #petals #beauty #delicate #embracing #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #april #friday #041726 #2026

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Haiku to you Thursday: “Expect”

Expect

Do not expect /

tomorrow to echo as /

hollow as today.

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#expect #hollow #today #echo #tomorrow #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #041626 #2026

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“E pluribus”

E pluribus

E pluribus unim. /

Homes as photocopied dreams. /

Thin imagining.

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#Epluribusunim #homes #photocopied #dreams #imagining #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #knoxville #davidebooker #april #wednesday #0401426 #2026

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“Empty”

Empty

Ceiling lights shine /

on empty shelves. Spring cleaning /

ahead of closing.

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#empty #lights #shelves #spring #closing #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #april #friday #041026 #2026

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“Worth”

Worth

Sunlight finds its worth /

on an April afternoon /

as an Iris glows.

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#worth #sunlight #april #iris #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #wednesday #040826 #2026

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