Treasures Once
We throw away things. /
Many and once precious things. /
We toss out our lives.
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Once
Once proud and erect, /
open and putrid, this corpse /
Is corpse bloom no more.
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#corpse #flower #bloom #proud #erect #putrid #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #053122 #2022
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Ditty
Oh, my Ditty do /
Unincorporated you /
Passing right on through.
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#ditty #unincorporated #haiku #poem #humor #davidebooker #bethabooker #053018 #2018
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Nature
Beatific bee /
finds flower in full career. /
They say it won’t last.
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#bee #flower #career #last #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #may #monday #053022 #2022
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Skyward
Desiring the Sun, /
the sunflower stretches up, /
renouncing the Earth.
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#sun #sunflower #earth #renounce #skyward #desire #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #sunday #052922 #2022
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The sun
Rising to the sun, /
sunflower reaches skyward, /
into its future.
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#sunflower #future #skyward #sun #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #052722 #2022
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Your rose
Your rose, dressed in rain, /
whispers down memory lane: /
wordless, its refrain.
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#refrain #rose #rain #whispers #memory #wordless #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #talltalestogo #oldnorthknoxville #may #thursday #052622 #2022
Thunderhead
Thunderhead in the sky /
I watch you blithely float by. /
Why no rain? Say why.
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#thunderhead #cloud #rain #float #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #may #sunday #052222 #2022
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Big cat
Did a big cat eat /
And leave its spots as payment /
For a child consumed?
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#cat #spots #child #consumed #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #052218 #2018
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Magic
Voodoo Lily do /
You know you stink as you /
Bloom in your beauty?
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