
Back down
Back down to the floor. /
Heart upward toward the ceiling. /
Belly scratch ready.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #belly #heart #back #floor #ceiling #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photooftheday #poemoftheday #july #monday #2021 #070521

Back down
Back down to the floor. /
Heart upward toward the ceiling. /
Belly scratch ready.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #belly #heart #back #floor #ceiling #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photooftheday #poemoftheday #july #monday #2021 #070521

Broken
Broken objects can /
not break treasured memories /
embraced in the heart.
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#broken #objects #cannot #break #memories #heart #treasures #poem #poetry #photo #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #davidebooker #july #tuesday
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, Photo by Beth Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker

Voices
Endless voices shout: /
our freedom, where does it bloom? /
In all hearts of love.
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#voices #freedom #bloom #hearts #love #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #flag #july4th #talltalestogo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #2022 #070422
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker

Holding
Sunflowers live, then /
sunflowers die, each bloom holds /
life’s brief monument.
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#holding #sunflowers #live #die #bloom #brief #monument #photo #poetry #poem #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #july #sunday #070322 #2022
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker

Year one
Homemade birthday cake. /
Nineteen years, including this /
first year on her own.
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#homemade #cake #birthday #nineteen #year #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #friday #070122 #2022
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, Photo Finish Friday

Many songs
Nature is rhythm: /
many songs chirping, buzzing, /
murmuring onward.
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#murmur #buzz #chirp #nature #rhythm #songs #photo #poem #haiku #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #thursday #063022 #2022

Arc
Day lily dying /
Arcing old comet passing /
New flowering life.
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#063018 #oldnorthknoxville #daylily #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #june #comet #arc
Filed under 2018, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker

Some thrones
Sometimes the throne is /
a mulch pile, a dead threshold /
waiting to be thrown.
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#threshold #throne #thrown #mulch #sometimes #dead #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #cat #june #wednesday #062722 #2022
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker

Damnation
The Devil’s Tongue blooms /
Under summer’s hot, first days /
Sun and damnation.
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#damnation #summer #devil #tongue #sun #bloom #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #062618 #2018
Filed under 2018, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker

Home
The dead and living /
Occupy the same domain. /
Sharing rain and sun.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #photooftheday #living #dead #sun #rain #share #garden #domain #lily #flower #thursday #june #2020 #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #tennessee #knoxville #062520
Filed under 2020, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker