
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

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

Bread line
Line up, single file. /
You have to cool off a while. /
A pan handler’s dream.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #bread #bananabread #pan #homemade #july #wednesday #2020 #baking #stormhaven #oldnorthknoxville #photooftheday #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #070120
Filed under 2020, haiku, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker, puns

Heat
Squirrel prostrated /
By the heat: flaccid, empty, /
Victim indiscrete.
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#squirrel #heat #victim #070218 #poem #poetry #davidebooker #july #flaccid #victim #indiscrete

The stream of color /
the leaves of sound /
the grounding of light /
into the Earth we are bound.
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#062017 #color #stream #leaves #light #ground #earth #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker
Filed under 2017, 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

Journeys
Sadness, hope, and smiles, /
journeys end as they began, /
sadness, hope, and smiles.
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#journeys #sadness #hope #smiles #end #begin #photo #poem #poetry #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #tuesday #062822 #2022
Filed under 2022, haiku, 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

Reflection
Do we fret and strut /
Our hour upon the stage then /
Leave unreflected?
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#poem #haiku #davidebooker #poet #poetry #write #writer #writing #reflection #unreflected #stage #strut #fret #stage #062619 #2019
Filed under 2019, haiku, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker