
Leapfrogs
May morning warmth grows. /
Cat lounges on the deck. /
Summer leapfrogs Spring.
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#leapfrogs #may #morning #cat #deck #summer #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknowville #stormhaven #davidebooker #tuesday #051926 #2026

Leapfrogs
May morning warmth grows. /
Cat lounges on the deck. /
Summer leapfrogs Spring.
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#leapfrogs #may #morning #cat #deck #summer #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknowville #stormhaven #davidebooker #tuesday #051926 #2026

Cupcake Blues
The lone Magpies. /
I guess I’ll have to eat it. /
Monday Morning Blues.
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#blues #magpies #monday #I #morning #cupcake #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #okdnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #051826 #2026

Ground Elder
Ground Elder’s small blooms, /
shining white in May’s shadows, /
invasive beauty.
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#groundelder #blooms #may #shadows #beauty #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #sunday #051726 #2026

Insight
Maybe one day I /
will grasp how crude blindness /
functions as insight.
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#maybe #blindness #insight #grasp #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #051526 #2026 #senryu

Joy
The joy of the Moon /
is in giving back to Earth /
the light of the Sun.
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#joy #moon #earth #sun #light #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #wednesday #012926p #051423t #051326 #2026
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Homegrown
Homegrown blue- and rasp- /
berries held in a ball cap: /
stains soak in the crown.
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#homegrown #cap #blueberries #raspberries #stains #crown #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #051325 #2025

See
Do you still see me /
when I cover my tired eyes /
and think you are gone?
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#see #eyes #you #I #cover #senryu #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #tuesday #051226 #2026

Bread
Life lives in moments; /
some of them in the kitchen /
baking bread.
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#bread #life #moments #kitchen #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #may #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #sunday #051026 #2026

Rain speaks
Rain speaks, /
patters the Earth until /
in full conversation.
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#rain #speaks #earth #conversation #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #may #wednesday #050626 #102925p #2026
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Dreams
May dreams before rain; /
sleep brings quiet beginnings /
beneath gray soaked sky.
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#dreams #rain #sleep #beginnings #sky #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #tuesday #050526 #2026
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