Hanging
Some mornings don’t work. /
You try your best to succeed /
But you can’t hang on.
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Hanging
Some mornings don’t work. /
You try your best to succeed /
But you can’t hang on.
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Front yard follies
On a sunny day /
The hackberry branch breaks away. /
Nature splits the way.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #davidebooker #nature #branch #collapse #sunnyday #august #saturday #oldnorthknoxville #2019 #hackberry #way #pun
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Sunlight moment
Head heavy with seeds. /
Petals shimmering with light. /
Namesake life giver.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #august #monday #oldnorthknoxille #sunflower #seeds #photooftheday #davidebooker #head #light #knoxville #tennessee
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The once was a writer with a bucket,
Who threw his drafts in it, because they “suck it.”
One day a thief came by
And with his bucket she did hie.
Now she has a bestseller. O’ the luck of it.

The Glade
Yes, the irony /
Is clear to me /
How you define being brave. /
If it can be done /
With your gun, /
Then my life can’t be saved. /
But wear a mask /
A simple task /
And you holy rant and rave. /
Over your dead body, /
And this said hotly, /
You to the world vouchsafe. /
Your creed is clear. /
It is death you hold dear, /
A charging bull in the glade. /
For another’s life /
No sacrifice /
Can ever or today be made. /
Compassion has died, /
Empathy hied, /
But with your gun you’re brave. /
You’re cold, dead hands /
Stretch across this land, /
But there is nothing to save. /
That shot in your arm /
You feared would cause you harm, /
Has no hope for you today. /
You’re the Bull Without the Mask /
And your soul’s task /
Is to drive life forever from the glade.
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Filed under 2021, guns, poem, Poetry by David E. Booker, rhyming poetry

Work day
Bee has no time clock. /
Only sun, life, instinct, work. /
Grace in the effort.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #bee #clock #grace #life #sun #instinct #work #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #photo #july #saturday #2021
Filed under 2021, haiku, photo, photo by David E. Booker, Poetry by David E. Booker

Taste is Summer
Dance, proboscis, dance.
Nectar of the cone flower
sways with your summer.
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#davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #haiku #poem #photooftheday #tennessee #proboscis #dance #flower #summer #july #friday #2021
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Out there
Out there is in here. /
Rain, turmoil, thunder, lightning /
Pain, grief, love, release.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #clouds #pain #rain #love #release #wednesday #lightning #july #2020 #photooftheday #knoxville #davidebooker #tennessee #grief
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The sky
The clouds above me /
Form around a dust whisper /
Cry into the night.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #photooftheday #davidebooker #clouds #dust #night #cry #july #tuesday #2020 #sky
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The journey
Into the wide world, /
One step begins the unknown /
One heart brings new love.
Filed under 2021, haiku, photo, Poetry by David E. Booker