July 21, 2023 · 10:53 pm

Blooms
The cone flowers bloom. /
Beauty brief, yet eternal. /
The cone flowers die.
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#flowers #beauty #brief #cone #eternal #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #bloom #july #friday #072123 #2023
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July 7, 2023 · 11:43 pm

Summer
Summer has its song. /
Chords of languid heat, love lost, /
and words bound in time.
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#summer #song #love #heat #words #time #chords #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #friday #2023 #070723
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June 30, 2023 · 11:58 pm

Desire
Tomato’s first blush. /
Kiss of rain, caress of heat. /
Season of desire.
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#tomato #season #kiss #blush ##caress #desire #rain #heat #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #friday #063023 #2033
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June 23, 2023 · 10:07 pm

Lost
Wet, folded lily, /
lost glove at a funeral, /
empty of embrace.
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#lost #empty #lily #glove #funeral #embrace #wet #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #thursday #062323 #2023
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June 2, 2023 · 11:39 pm

Hear
Seed can stands empty. /
Hear the echoes of each scoop. /
Hear the wings rustle.
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#hear #echoes #seed #wings #rustle #can #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #friday #060223 #2023
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May 26, 2023 · 9:42 pm

The ferryman
Down at the river /
the road laps into water. /
The ferryman cries.
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#river #road #ferryman #cries #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #briangriffin #davidebooker #may #friday #052623 #2023
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May 25, 2023 · 11:57 pm

Voodoo lily
Voodoo lily gleams. /
Dark stench of rotten flesh blooms /
briefly in the sun.
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#voodoo #lily #gleams #rotten #flesh #stench #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #Friday #052523 #2023
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May 19, 2023 · 11:22 pm

The view
See Rock City /
with your cat and from the back /
of your wheelbarrow.
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#see #view #rock-city #wheelbarrow #cat #photo #humor #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #052923 #2023
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May 5, 2023 · 11:05 pm

Know
I will never know /
an Iris’s mind; only that /
you planted it.
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#iris #mind #planted #you #know #never #I #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #050523 #2023
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