https://talltalestogo.com/2026/04/03/haiku-to-you-thursday-leaves-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/image_4b41e835-3063-4d80-9d00-261f8735c47c.jpgimage_4b41e835-3063-4d80-9d00-261f8735c47cLeaves Through the budding leaves, / ripples in the sunlight, / Spring upon the street. . . #leaves #spring #sunlight #street #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #040226 #20262026-04-03T04:00:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/04/01/clouds-7/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/image_97669acc-8284-40d9-a8f7-d5f1dcc9b4b6.jpgimage_97669acc-8284-40d9-a8f7-d5f1dcc9b4b6Clouds Majestic sculptures, / tableaus dancing through time, / built on raindrops. . . #clouds #sculptures #tableaus #time #raindrops #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #april #wednesday #040126 #20262026-04-02T00:48:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/31/superhero/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_3639ac6d-6d41-4d70-9c40-7b17a16f22da.jpgimage_3639ac6d-6d41-4d70-9c40-7b17a16f22daSuperhero Superhero head / caroms across my yard / March displays its might. . . #superhero #head #march #might #yard #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #videobyjenniferlubke #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #030726v #033126t #2026 #tuesday2026-04-01T02:34:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/30/public-reminder/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_3539159e-7aea-4aad-942b-244dcf0befea.jpgimage_3539159e-7aea-4aad-942b-244dcf0befeaPublic reminder Chase what can’t be done. / Madness is all that is run. / Weeds make things undone. . . #weeds #madness #chase #undone #haiku #poem #haiga #graphicnotmine #march #monday #033026 #2026 #reminder2026-03-31T03:28:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/29/withhold/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_cee91cd6-02a3-4e76-8fc0-4e35ca3f1b65.jpegimage_cee91cd6-02a3-4e76-8fc0-4e35ca3f1b65Withhold Some spring days withhold / their beauty, their colors, waiting for new eyes. . . #withhold #eyes #spring #color #beauty #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #cat #stormhaven #davidebooker #march #sunday #032926 #20262026-03-30T03:32:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/27/blooms-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_db508d66-9c30-4459-a2d4-d29a1123df16.jpegimage_db508d66-9c30-4459-a2d4-d29a1123df16Bloom Each blueberry bloom / echoes my heart beating / from now into next. . . #bloom #blueberry #heart #echoes #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #march #friday #032726 #20262026-03-28T03:48:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/25/stars/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_31636539-13b3-4bb9-87e4-3a509fe8490b.jpgimage_31636539-13b3-4bb9-87e4-3a509fe8490bStars Like stars in the sky, / I say good night to you — / shattered, shiny hopes. . . #stars #sky #hopes #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photonotmine #march #tuesday #032426 #2026 #senryu 𝐍𝐆𝐂 𝟐𝟔𝟐𝟔 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 Centered in this colorful cosmic canvas, NGC 2626 is a beautiful, bright, blue reflection nebula in the southern Milky Way. Next to an obscuring dust cloud and surrounded by reddish hydrogen emission from large H II region RCW 27 it lies within a complex of dusty molecular clouds known as the Vela Molecular Ridge. NGC 2626 is itself a cloud of interstellar dust reflecting blue light from the young hot embedded star visible within the nebula. But astronomical explorations reveal many other young stars and associated nebulae in the star-forming region. NGC 2626 is about 3,200 light-years away. At that distance this telescopic field of view would span about 30 light-years along the Vela Molecular Ridge. Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby & Mark Hanson2026-03-25T05:30:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/24/cat-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_6c92f428-fad5-434f-ad0e-43b29101e3d3.jpegimage_6c92f428-fad5-434f-ad0e-43b29101e3d3Cat March morning light. / Cat scratches away the night. / Smiles for delight. . . #cat #march #smiles #light #night #delight #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #monday #032326 #20262026-03-24T05:19:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/22/older/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_4cfa0171-a063-4b83-9a42-2e86bc8e45e6.jpgimage_4cfa0171-a063-4b83-9a42-2e86bc8e45e6Older The crack in the floor / is near the rag on the floor. / The crack is older. . . #older #crack #rag #floor #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #ftsanders #davidebooker #rm202 #saturday #march #032126 #20262026-03-22T19:31:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/19/15003/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_cb4a1254-0b8e-4b15-8430-312eebdaa327.jpegimage_cb4a1254-0b8e-4b15-8430-312eebdaa327Playground Old playground outside / my second-floor hospital room. / Love’s creaky echo. . . #playground #love #hospital #old #echo #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #playgroundftsanders #love #echo #march #thursday #031926 #20262026-03-20T03:58:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/15/birthday-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_b18814db-19bb-48fa-aa6b-dcbb87c50b20.jpegimage_b18814db-19bb-48fa-aa6b-dcbb87c50b20Birthday Warm homemade cake, / Vanilla ice cream melting. / Well wishes and smiles. . . #birthday #wishes #smiles #cake #icecream #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #sunday #031526 #0315262026-03-16T03:17:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/11/drops-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_ac0c0498-41ed-49c5-b134-10338403c272.jpegimage_ac0c0498-41ed-49c5-b134-10338403c272Drops Gray clouds, ugly bumps /da misshapened moments of time. / Life in drops: yours, mine. . . #drops #clouds #bumps #time #life #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #031026 #2026 #021712t2026-03-11T06:09:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/10/water/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image_36f08627-f5d5-4318-8d6c-deaf8637d61f.jpegimage_36f08627-f5d5-4318-8d6c-deaf8637d61fWater Take a beat, a breath / and then follow the water / to its beating source. . . #water #breath #beating #source #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #laurenabooker #davidebooker #030926 #2026 #2023t2026-03-10T08:11:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/03/08/poe-man-out/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image.pngimage2026-03-09T03:24:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/27/photo-finish-friday-goodbye/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_17078989-0890-449e-a815-2ed1605f1ad5.jpegimage_17078989-0890-449e-a815-2ed1605f1ad5Goodbye Curve of the moon, / powder blue sky, bare limbs / wave winter goodbye? . . #goodbye #winter #moon #sky #limit #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #friday #022726 #2026 #photofinishfriday2026-02-28T04:30:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/26/thrill/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_cc2a3b95-66c4-45be-bd67-df09431e731d.jpegimage_cc2a3b95-66c4-45be-bd67-df09431e731dThrill Thrilled by building, / we raise our houses on sand / and raze our lives. . . #thrill #lives #raise #raze #sand #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #wednesday #022526 #2026 #022024t2026-02-26T07:17:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/23/late/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_3a4e1e7f-49ef-47d9-aaa6-cd1b8603a0d6.jpegimage_3a4e1e7f-49ef-47d9-aaa6-cd1b8603a0d6Late I shed my warn clothes / and stand before the stars, naked. / My tailor is late. . . #late #stars #naked #tailor #clothes #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #sunday #022226 #20262026-02-23T11:43:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/21/photo-finish-friday-green/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_2bc7bc0b-17f4-4105-b1b2-28f10910123b.jpegimage_2bc7bc0b-17f4-4105-b1b2-28f10910123bGreen Green of Spring pokes / through February’s brown. / Chimes warn: winter lingers. . . #green #spring #brown #february #chimes #warn #winter #lingers #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #friday #022026 #20262026-02-21T07:00:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/21/waves-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_d8d7990d-ef2e-469c-b9ee-cf139991e6d9.jpgimage_d8d7990d-ef2e-469c-b9ee-cf139991e6d9Waves Waves in the water, / waves in the sky, waves hello, / and waves goodbye. . . #waves #hello #water #sky #goodbye #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #monday #022023 #2023 #haiga #photo2026-02-21T07:00:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/20/haiku-to-you-thursday-burden/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_c58d546d-c6d0-4412-8883-35ed3587da16.jpegimage_c58d546d-c6d0-4412-8883-35ed3587da16Burden Rain and promises / Fill both a cloudy day / And a burdened heart. . . #burden #rain #promises #day #heart #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #thursday #021926 #20262026-02-20T06:38:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/19/wind-chimes/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_9c914417-71d6-4234-91c5-d0ffbba095e4.jpgimage_9c914417-71d6-4234-91c5-d0ffbba095e4Wind chimes Wind and chimes and / wind chimes ring, singing forth / for the sun’s return. . . #wind # chimes #ring #sun #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #february #wednesday #031923p #021826t #2026 Listened We sat and listened. / When does breeze become wind? / Leaves and chimes opined. . . #wind #chimes #breeze #listened #leaves #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #senryu #davidebooker #may #thursday #031923p #052225t #20252026-02-19T07:29:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/17/possum-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_527f183c-96f1-47e6-bcf9-179e1e6236c8.jpegimage_527f183c-96f1-47e6-bcf9-179e1e6236c8Possum Possum at noon. / Can’t wait until midnight. / Cat food too tempting. . . #possum #catfood #noon #midnight #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #tuesday #021726 #20262026-02-18T02:00:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/17/bag/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_038f0305-265a-4a74-a81a-84ee19e34f1d.jpegimage_038f0305-265a-4a74-a81a-84ee19e34f1dBag Bag of wind caught on a fallen limb. A lost hobo’s dream. . . #bag #limb #hobo #dream #wind #021226 #2026 #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #thursday2026-02-18T01:55:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/02/11/last-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image_82dfc915-d606-4b9c-825c-c94c166578c9.jpegimage_82dfc915-d606-4b9c-825c-c94c166578c9Last Last piece of fudge. / Holiday treat almost gone. / Maybe lingered too long. . . #last #fudge #holiday #treat #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #tuesday #021026 #20262026-02-11T05:04:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/31/flush/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_cf5fe0c8-8254-47eb-9c5e-af7f3008c6d1.jpegimage_cf5fe0c8-8254-47eb-9c5e-af7f3008c6d1Flush Flush of success, / fewer these days, I guess. / No need to impress. . . #flush #toilet #success #impress #humor #days #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #013126 #20262026-02-01T04:30:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/30/photo-finish-friday-ice-pie/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_c1afd2f2-43d6-43bd-af4d-8a6f51838e45.jpegimage_c1afd2f2-43d6-43bd-af4d-8a6f51838e45Ice pie Outdoor ice pie / made by Mother Nature’s try. / No fridge need apply. . . #ice #pie #mothernature #fridge #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #friday #013126 #20262026-01-31T03:10:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/26/tableau/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_357ce92a-0213-458d-ac72-a9cc7962ea05.jpegimage_357ce92a-0213-458d-ac72-a9cc7962ea05Tableau Red stop sign, red car, red male cardinal: a winter tableau . . #tableau #red #cardinal #car #sign #stop #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #tableau #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #monday #012625 #20252026-01-27T04:43:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/25/time-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_4d9d681e-85d4-48d0-9f99-8d174407d016.jpgimage_4d9d681e-85d4-48d0-9f99-8d174407d016Time Now is elastic, / Memory stretches then, / Next shrinks away. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #time #memory #now #elastic #shrinks #next #cartoon #davidebooker #january #sunday #2021 #012421 #haiga #cartoonnotmine2026-01-25T22:10:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/24/sun-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_05857ed6-76e6-4cc8-8874-e3c1e1c69fb8.jpgimage_05857ed6-76e6-4cc8-8874-e3c1e1c69fb8Sun Sun cannot pave roads / only shine light so you can / avoid the potholes. . . #shine #sun #potholes #pave #roads #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #january #saturday #012426 #20262026-01-24T11:38:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/22/haiku-to-you-paper-cranes/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_f19850ae-2d03-4772-a68e-0f8447873092.jpgimage_f19850ae-2d03-4772-a68e-0f8447873092Paper cranes Paper cranes dangle / in winter’s morning light / softly turning. . . #papercranes #winter #morning #dangle #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #thursday #012226 #20262026-01-22T06:25:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/21/remembrance-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_4a70dca5-bf7a-4871-bc52-0e8de1c51861.jpgimage_4a70dca5-bf7a-4871-bc52-0e8de1c51861Remembrance When you reach the end / there’s a sign. Not an exit, / but in remembrance. . . #remembrance #end #sign #noexit #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #friday #2022 #012122 #haiga2026-01-22T00:45:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/21/once-again-2020/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_6e311fd7-1f7b-4a20-a236-b90d0ee54c58.jpgimage_6e311fd7-1f7b-4a20-a236-b90d0ee54c58Once again Cold day for treatment. / Chemotherapy’s embrace / In both weather and bones. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writer #writing #davidebooker #tuesday #2020 #january #chemotherapy #treatment #photo #cvold #bones #embrace #knoxville #tennessee #012120 #haiga2026-01-21T19:04:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/19/seeds-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_c6c1ef41-5169-43f8-86c0-86f0f5a64c18.jpegimage_c6c1ef41-5169-43f8-86c0-86f0f5a64c18Seeds Soybean seeds scattered / on a cold winter morning, shining in the sun. . . #seeds #soybean #sun #winter #morning #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #monday #011926 #20262026-01-20T04:28:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/18/baking/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_4bd88b8d-3c32-4fa3-9511-b3605fadcb2f.jpgimage_4bd88b8d-3c32-4fa3-9511-b3605fadcb2fBaking Winter baking / Pleasant scents rise on the warmth / of old recipes. . . #baking #winter #recipes #warmth #scents #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #january #sunday #011826 #20262026-01-18T05:14:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/17/cancer-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_f5d7cedf-80b5-4f58-8519-270bba5517d4.jpgimage_f5d7cedf-80b5-4f58-8519-270bba5517d4Cancer Cancer is Winter: / Hard on the outer shell / Opens inner seeds. . . #haiku #january #2019 #poem #poetry #writing #writer #cancer #winter #shell #seeds #quilt #inner #outer #haiga #010319 #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #robertajones2026-01-18T04:24:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/16/photo-finish-friday-january-lights/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_a1f9b862-c286-49ca-9309-3128d9f3462b.jpgimage_a1f9b862-c286-49ca-9309-3128d9f3462bJanuary lights January lights / echo holiday delights, / and stir a smile. . . #january #lights #holiday #delights #smile #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #friday #011626 #20262026-01-17T04:18:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/14/train/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_75bf71e1-ce7f-4aa5-920b-86a9663a348c.jpgimage_75bf71e1-ce7f-4aa5-920b-86a9663a348cTrain Train in the rain. / Car askew in its lane. / January a bane. . . #train #haiku #haiga #bane #rain #car #poem #poetry #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #january #wednesday #011426 #20262026-01-15T02:48:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/14/essence/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_6eac5afc-268b-44cc-83b7-c634fa59f262.jpgimage_6eac5afc-268b-44cc-83b7-c634fa59f262Essence My mind’s essence: / I strive for understanding. / I glimpse between worlds. . . #glimpse #essence #haiku #haiga #senryu #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #wednesday #121426 #20262026-01-14T05:08:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/13/moon-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_4e55f8ea-8446-410a-9f6f-4c7fc44cea21.jpgimage_4e55f8ea-8446-410a-9f6f-4c7fc44cea21Moon Bare winter branches, / full moon weaves between them, / skyward into night. . . #moon #skyward #winter #branches #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #sunday #011225 #20252026-01-13T06:45:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/12/imagine/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_e25d1ea3-cd85-437d-83b1-7a581f65f23e.jpgimage_e25d1ea3-cd85-437d-83b1-7a581f65f23eImagine Imagine a sky / a sun and compassion / all, everywhere. . . #imagine #sky #sun #compassion #everywhere #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #monday #011226 #20262026-01-12T05:28:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/10/inward-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_77e1f619-fec6-4b45-b40f-3ae35e6b8c60.jpgimage_77e1f619-fec6-4b45-b40f-3ae35e6b8c60Inward In a word: inward The birds sing loudly today. The cat sits alone. . . #inward #haiku #haiga #cat #bird #sing #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #011026 #202602026-01-10T12:02:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/10/inward/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_9d169c74-3fae-4a0b-b60f-a799d2173dff.jpgimage_9d169c74-3fae-4a0b-b60f-a799d2173dffInward In a word: inward The birds sing loudly today. The cat sits alone. . . #inward #haiku #haiga #cat #bird #sing #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #011026 #202602026-01-10T11:55:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/07/vogue/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_5a0d18a7-8fa4-44ac-aa5e-34999f30f97c.jpgimage_5a0d18a7-8fa4-44ac-aa5e-34999f30f97cVogue In Vogue, an old man / carries his possessions, while / walking with his cane. . . #vogue #cane #vogue #man #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #tennessee #davidebooker #january #wednesday #010725 #20252026-01-08T04:25:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/01/new-and-not/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_f7a7dd3b-0156-4e77-85bb-ea0ffee4b73c.jpgimage_f7a7dd3b-0156-4e77-85bb-ea0ffee4b73cNew and Not Alone and not. / A body and a shadow. / New year and still old. . . #new #not #year #old #body #shadow #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #010126 #20262026-01-04T18:36:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2026/01/04/winter-light/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image_3af1f14d-f698-4fc7-afbb-e3533488a087.jpgimage_3af1f14d-f698-4fc7-afbb-e3533488a087winter light Street light thins. / Sun a little longer again. / Winter day begins. . . #winter #lights #day #street #light #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #sunday #010426 #20262026-01-04T18:33:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/30/on-the-last-one/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_6a60a62d-71b0-4ba5-9d1a-6a6e650b8785.jpgThink like Mario.Think like Mario.2025-12-31T00:03:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/30/sunday/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_b382fc3e-4f85-4e5b-a449-ee48cf8c41ba.jpgimage_b382fc3e-4f85-4e5b-a449-ee48cf8c41baSunday Lawn mower thrums. / Change of winds drives December / down and up and down. . . #sunday #thrum #winds #december #up #down #123025 #2025 #haiku #haiga #poem #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #tuesday2025-12-30T06:46:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/27/cold/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image.pngimage2025-12-28T05:20:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/21/solstice-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_0733a56b-2e0a-449f-b440-b18c1893d9f4.jpgimage_0733a56b-2e0a-449f-b440-b18c1893d9f4Solstice Winter loves slowly. / Its long shadows stretch like life / compactly marooned. . . #live #love #winter #marooned #shadows #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #december #tuesday #2021 #122121 #haiga2025-12-22T04:42:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/20/bach-travels/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_87333d9c-ab45-45c7-9913-2bbaf6a7f479.jpgimage_87333d9c-ab45-45c7-9913-2bbaf6a7f479Bach travels Bach travels through time. / With cello, she brings him to stage / to join their small band. . . #bach #travels #time #band #cello #folkatfourth #ceceilastair #oldnorthknoxville #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #december #saturday #davidebooker #122025 #20252025-12-21T01:34:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/16/abstract-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_42a8c4d4-f30f-4768-a9a3-3c513dd8bcb4.jpgimage_42a8c4d4-f30f-4768-a9a3-3c513dd8bcb4abrstract abstract argument / argued in full abstraction / no punctuation . . #punctuation #abstract #argument #abstraction #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #december #tuesday #121625 #20252025-12-16T23:58:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/15/argue/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_3e991370-86dc-45d9-a1a6-af9879859117.jpgimage_3e991370-86dc-45d9-a1a6-af9879859117Argue We argued over / who had the worst argument / and I lost. . . #argue #lost #argument #I #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #dog #december #monday #promotion #rocks #senryu #121525 #20252025-12-16T02:36:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/11/holidays/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_cd0fd4a7-ebdf-445d-8785-36b52b34dc67.jpgimage_cd0fd4a7-ebdf-445d-8785-36b52b34dc67Holidays Once, I brandished light, / large for the holidays. / Now, just a small one. . . #light #holidays #brandished #large #small #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #december #thursday #121125 #20252025-12-11T11:38:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/04/haiku-to-you-thursday-waiting-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_1e449114-31e4-4f0c-b717-1ccd370e0883.jpgimage_1e449114-31e4-4f0c-b717-1ccd370e0883Waiting Waiting for blood draw / in Santa’s sad waiting room. / Ho-ho-hole in me. . . #santa #waiting #waitingroom #blood #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #hospital #davidebooker #thursday #december #120425 #20252025-12-05T04:57:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/03/decorations/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_883a6bc6-e50f-47e4-a7a6-081585fabc43.jpgimage_883a6bc6-e50f-47e4-a7a6-081585fabc43Decorations Down at the park, / up in the leafless tree, / decorations bloom . . . #decorations #park #bloom #tree #oldnorthknoxville #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #december #wednesday #120325 #20252025-12-03T07:16:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/12/01/he-says-goodbye/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image_c0224a9b-c599-4301-90c5-6e89b6ff240a.jpgimage_c0224a9b-c599-4301-90c5-6e89b6ff240aHe says goodbye The fog obscures as / he says goodbye to his love. / He sees clearly now. . . #goodbye #fog #love #sees #he #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photonotmine #casablanca #davidebooker #december #Monday #120125 #2025 #bogart2025-12-02T01:56:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/30/bread-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_3f294c80-ac73-4b91-8d3b-88b24e442ddc.jpgimage_3f294c80-ac73-4b91-8d3b-88b24e442ddcBread Both work and promise, / holiday bread offers warmth / wrapped in remembrance. . . #bread #holiday #past #warmth #remembrance #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #november #sunday #113025 #2025 #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker2025-12-01T04:49:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/30/fall-beach/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_f6513c7c-846d-4efd-ac8b-1d5af3caf016.jpgimage_f6513c7c-846d-4efd-ac8b-1d5af3caf016Fall beach A beach of asphalt. / Waves of fallen autumn leaves. / Lingering shadows. . . #leaves #autumn #waves #shadows #beach #asphalt #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #november #sunday #2021 #112821 #haiga2025-12-01T03:46:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/29/love-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_d2b76509-3479-4049-8912-88d5b035ac11.jpgimage_d2b76509-3479-4049-8912-88d5b035ac11Love On a cold winter can you find love at 3 AM, or only the moon? . . #love #winter #love #moon #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #november #Saturday #112925 #2025 #jeffersoncity2025-11-29T08:49:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/26/from/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_03bdc3be-a82f-495c-b152-4ab27a2fc2ae.jpgimage_03bdc3be-a82f-495c-b152-4ab27a2fc2aeFrom From the night, no prayers. / From the stars, no whispers. / From my lips, no vows. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #140 #haiga #shit #prayers #whispers #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #wednesday #112625 #20252025-11-27T04:01:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/25/hands/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_b6baf707-9242-4bd4-ab58-14b737d6d496.jpgimage_b6baf707-9242-4bd4-ab58-14b737d6d496Hands Waves rustle the shore… / weather beaten sailor’s hands / pushed by dying sun. . . #hands #waves #sun #shore #sailor #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photobyBetsyNewman #talltalestogo #pacificocean #november #tuesday #112525 #20252025-11-25T15:46:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/23/passing/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_075846cf-7bdc-4055-9120-4802d803d9c7.jpgimage_075846cf-7bdc-4055-9120-4802d803d9c7Passing Not floor, not ceiling / passing and leaving no mark / clouds everchanging. . . #passing #floor #ceiling #passing #mark #everchanging #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #sunday #112325 #20252025-11-23T18:36:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/21/photo-finish-friday-layers/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_9d58774d-0a54-482a-953d-2a824e2b7377.jpgimage_9d58774d-0a54-482a-953d-2a824e2b7377Layers Moisture clings to air. / Fog folds back its layers. /c h Church bell harmonies. . . #bell #layers #harmonies #church #moisture #fog #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #112125 #20252025-11-21T14:57:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/18/haiku-2018-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image.pngimage2025-11-18T15:17:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/18/burning/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_6b41b3c7-5c58-45ee-b74b-2695be39a9fc.jpgimage_6b41b3c7-5c58-45ee-b74b-2695be39a9fcBurning Moses had his bush. / I see a burning tree, lit / by the sun’s desire. . . #burning #bush #moses #sun #desire #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #111825 #2025 #senryu2025-11-18T05:21:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/16/whisper-10/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_e72a3c82-a89a-4468-9a89-5ce05604afb5.jpgimage_e72a3c82-a89a-4468-9a89-5ce05604afb5Whisper Whisper of light. / Kiss of forgotten love. / Where is there good night? . . #whisper #light #kiss #night #love #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #sunday #111625 #20252025-11-17T04:06:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/15/soon-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_eada7f54-5a34-4c62-8b57-86b4d8dc435c.jpgimage_eada7f54-5a34-4c62-8b57-86b4d8dc435cSoon Winter soon arrives / and even the leaf’s shadow / will curl round and die. . . #soon #winter #leaf #shadow #curl #die #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #november #saturday #111525 #20252025-11-16T04:09:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/14/photo-finish-friday-wears/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_ac013e83-d9e0-418c-bd62-156d926d47b0.jpgimage_ac013e83-d9e0-418c-bd62-156d926d47b0Wears Painted fall yellow, / the translucent maple leaf / wears the falling sun. . . #wears #painted #fall #yellow #maple #translucent #leaf #sun #haiga #photo #haiku #poem #poet #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #november #friday #111425 #20252025-11-15T04:58:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/14/lovers-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_cba6b08c-ee33-4b94-92c7-2d62e6a1b160.jpgimage_cba6b08c-ee33-4b94-92c7-2d62e6a1b160Lovers Lovers kiss goodbye. / Red glistens the horizon. / Night and hearts weave dreams. . . #lovers #goodbye #red #horizon #night #hearts #dreams #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #111224 #20242025-11-14T10:32:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/13/haiku-to-you-thursday-layers/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_6eaff52e-6d4a-4243-b34d-a22e914d6a2b.jpgimage_6eaff52e-6d4a-4243-b34d-a22e914d6a2bLayers Pastels paint the sky. / Silhouettes smudge empty limbs. / Fall layers the dawn. . . #layers #pastels #sky #silhouettes #limbs #dawn #fall #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #november #thursday #111325 #20252025-11-14T00:52:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/12/time-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_71e13207-2f90-4049-83f1-3364afb8f923.jpgimage_71e13207-2f90-4049-83f1-3364afb8f923Time Man made the time piece. / Time’s moments make memories. / The clock should not rule. . . #time #clock #memories #man #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #tree #oldnorthknoxville #fall #november #wednesday #2021 #111021 #haiga2025-11-12T16:39:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/11/three-leaves-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_981efdc2-6943-45ec-8295-ff64f0a70dfa.jpgimage_981efdc2-6943-45ec-8295-ff64f0a70dfaThree leaves November morning. / Three leaves frozen in water. / Winter is dawning. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #november #tuesday #111125 #2025 #leaves #frozen #morning #dawning2025-11-12T04:40:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/11/bare-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_948ee239-a6f3-4a79-9379-19bfd2afa151.jpgimage_948ee239-a6f3-4a79-9379-19bfd2afa151Bare The leaves have fallen. / Bare is the moment of hope, / shadeless in the sun. . . #bare #leaves #shadeless #sun #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #monday #111025 #20252025-11-11T05:00:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/09/manners/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_dde51cd0-90c8-44b0-a470-8d3735956052.jpgimage_dde51cd0-90c8-44b0-a470-8d3735956052Manners Manners are as leaves: / some blooming; some turning; / some too long on the tree. . . #manners #leaves #tree #blooming #turning #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #sunday #stormhaven #110925 #20252025-11-10T02:09:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/09/sometimes-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_9d0b62da-101d-42cf-87a7-23ffbe85dbe4.jpgimage_9d0b62da-101d-42cf-87a7-23ffbe85dbe4Sometimes Sometimes, between / the moon and the brown oak leaves / your voice susurrates. . . #sometimes #voice #susurrate #moon #oak #leaves #haiku #poem #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #daviebooker #november #saturday #110825 #20252025-11-09T05:03:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/07/photo-finish-friday-next/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_54e92a42-c9d2-44a8-a360-84621b3cca13.jpgimage_54e92a42-c9d2-44a8-a360-84621b3cca13Next Waiting for the next: / one day, one season, one train, / a red leaf falling. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #next #day #season #train #leaf #knoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #110725 #20252025-11-07T16:26:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/04/beauty-7/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_02930a7c-3fe8-4e38-8fe2-998f3950e9b4.jpgimage_02930a7c-3fe8-4e38-8fe2-998f3950e9b4Beauty In the cool of fall, / as the cat drinks rainwater, / beauty unfolds. . . #beauty #fall #cat #rainwater #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #november #tuesday #110425 #20252025-11-05T04:56:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/03/linger-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_52c99e47-ec37-4ab6-841a-e2e898d0506d.jpgimage_52c99e47-ec37-4ab6-841a-e2e898d0506dLinger Fall morning fog: / last night won’t let go and / lost dreams linger. . . #linger #fall #fog #night #dreams #lost #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #talltalestogo #monday #110325 #20252025-11-04T04:59:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/02/red-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_6a6b22f2-4526-4f75-8e3e-d67473979f2b.jpgimage_6a6b22f2-4526-4f75-8e3e-d67473979f2bRed The fall sky seeps red. / The fire engine screams red. / The trees halo red. . . #red #sky #fire_engine #trees #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #sunday #110225 #20252025-11-03T01:32:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/01/in-a-pickle/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_cd99ce66-a922-4428-bc6c-b1717f694f7e.jpgimage_cd99ce66-a922-4428-bc6c-b1717f694f7eIn a pickle Dangle from your tree. / Deck your halls with sour pickles. / Fa-la-la-pucker. . . #Christmas #pickle #sour #Christmas #tree #halls #haiku #poet #poem #poetry #writing #writer #november #friday #daivdebooker #2019 #tradition #110119 #haiga #photo #knoxville2025-11-02T03:15:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/11/01/breeze-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image_5487f890-0741-4291-a368-7d73e025cd92.jpgimage_5487f890-0741-4291-a368-7d73e025cd92Breeze Listen to the breeze. / October rustles through leaves. / November clatters trees. . . #breeze #october #november #trees #leaves #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #video #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #november #saturday #110125 #20252025-11-01T19:15:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/31/photo-finish-friday-exit/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_8f4477aa-a034-4fef-9b5d-6dc32b23994f.jpgimage_8f4477aa-a034-4fef-9b5d-6dc32b23994fExit Yesterday’s rain gives / way to today’s puffy clouds. / The sun dries the sky. . . #exit #sun #sky #clouds #yesterday #today #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #dvidebooker #october #103125 #20252025-11-01T03:58:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/29/once-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_846f7512-7f8e-4847-af4d-12886d4702d1.jpgimage_846f7512-7f8e-4847-af4d-12886d4702d1Once Once leaves flew above. / Now, we gather here below; / death waits on the wind. . . #once #leaves #flew #gather #below #death #wind #haiku #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #tuesday #102924 #20242025-10-30T03:56:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/29/diversity/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_b4171ae0-86c9-4d9d-b121-d3304ae1e661.jpgimage_b4171ae0-86c9-4d9d-b121-d3304ae1e661Diversity Even in death, / Nature brings diversity / to its fallen leaves. . . #diversity #leaves #death #nature #fallen #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #october #wednesday #102925 #20252025-10-30T01:44:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/29/this/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_4df591ec-5a12-486a-82d3-8b3759132808.jpgimage_4df591ec-5a12-486a-82d3-8b3759132808This This moment passes / as does the next. Each a leaf / supple, then brittle. . . #supple #brittle #leaf #moment #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #102922 #2022 #haiga2025-10-29T18:43:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/28/autumn-descends-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_1165cbf9-3d26-4119-bda9-0a8ce309b6d1.jpgimage_1165cbf9-3d26-4119-bda9-0a8ce309b6d1Autumn descends Old leaves and lost light, / days of autumn descend on / young cat and stone bench. . . #autumn #descend #leaves #old #light #young #cat #photo #poem #poetry #stone #bench #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #102823 #2023 #haiga2025-10-29T03:20:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/28/voices-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_65a4bece-5de1-47f4-9662-91570265fddd.jpgimage_65a4bece-5de1-47f4-9662-91570265fdddVoices I waited for my test. / Hospital halls held voices. / None were yours. . . #voices #yours #test #hospital #halls #I #senryu #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #october #tuesday #102825 #2025 #davidebooker2025-10-29T02:54:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/26/clouds-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_db759a57-e7cf-42de-a2e8-5f41c77ea1b9.jpgimage_db759a57-e7cf-42de-a2e8-5f41c77ea1b9Clouds Clouds color the sky / Swirling high above the ground / Sun rides the dark wires. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writer #writing #clouds #sky #sun #wire #haiga #davidebooker #october #102618 #2018 #oldnorthknoxville #photo2025-10-26T22:42:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/26/bachelors-button/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_e4c8f64e-f569-40c6-a273-a9dcbce3e6f8.jpgimage_e4c8f64e-f569-40c6-a273-a9dcbce3e6f8Bachelor’s button Bachelor’s button / sheds its bright summer clothes / and dons winter’s brown. . . #bachelor #button #summer #clothes #winter #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #october #sunday #102625 #20252025-10-26T20:13:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/25/bright-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_d1abed24-9409-4cdc-8820-fbfc18bf0776.jpgimage_d1abed24-9409-4cdc-8820-fbfc18bf0776Bright Find summer’s fire / bright in the red maple leaf / among the ash brown. . . #bright #leaf #maple #summer #fire #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxvillestormhaven #davidebooker #october #saturday #102525 #20252025-10-26T03:59:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/25/photo-finish-friday-fall-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_930f7146-9cbf-411a-8b67-128584ea370d.jpgimage_930f7146-9cbf-411a-8b67-128584ea370dFall Autumn rainfall on / fallen maple leaf glistens / as temperatures fall. . . #fall #rainfall #maple #leaf #autumn #temperatures #glisten #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #102425 #friday #october #20252025-10-25T08:26:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/24/photo-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_12b26992-2b1a-4ef5-a5e8-bb5d9c73bb01.jpgimage_12b26992-2b1a-4ef5-a5e8-bb5d9c73bb01Photo Your photo conjures / memories built with pixels / and desires unfilled. . . #photo #memories #pixels #desires #unfilled #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #october #thursday #102424 #2024 #102419p #photobyBethBooker2025-10-24T23:57:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/23/haiku-to-you-thursday-winds/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_a73dcd9c-bc8b-42df-b203-8b1f6d2fd9b1.jpgimage_a73dcd9c-bc8b-42df-b203-8b1f6d2fd9b1Wind Moments fall like leaves. / Some bright, some dull, many lost / to memory’s wind. . . #wind #memory #wind #leaves #moments #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #thursday #102325 #20252025-10-24T03:59:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/23/amphibious-reader/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_f9824f1f-00b5-43d8-a8d2-b7866e381263.jpgimage_f9824f1f-00b5-43d8-a8d2-b7866e381263Amphibious reader Man stalks the monster / An amphibious reader / Halloween stories. . . #halloween #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #poet #writer #stories #stalker #amphibious #102318 #2018 #haiga #photobyBethBooker #davidebooker #knoxville2025-10-24T02:46:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/21/forgiveness/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_d21633c5-f6b1-4f43-b5a4-1f6a92636464.jpgimage_d21633c5-f6b1-4f43-b5a4-1f6a92636464Forgiveness Every fall a death / bright moments of sadness / and quiet forgiveness. . . #forgiveness #moment #sadness #fall #death #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #october #tuesday #102125 #20252025-10-22T03:59:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/21/red/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_fb8417b8-5e49-4e92-94f5-f3f8462e4181.jpgimage_fb8417b8-5e49-4e92-94f5-f3f8462e4181Red Color climbs to the sky. / Fall red brushing the heavens. / Soon to paint the earth. . . #red #sky #color #heavens #paint #earth #brush #poem #poetry #haiku #fall #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #friday #102023 #2023 # haiga2025-10-21T04:24:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/19/future/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_4be91552-5b44-476d-9fe6-b6fc7eaeb5eb.jpgimage_4be91552-5b44-476d-9fe6-b6fc7eaeb5ebFuture Be not tomorrow. / Flowers give their best now. / The future has no eyes. . . #future #tomorrow #eyes #flowers #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnothknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #october #101925 #20252025-10-20T03:51:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/18/solitary/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_059fbac2-8505-4698-8be7-f4c74b60ef43.jpgimage_059fbac2-8505-4698-8be7-f4c74b60ef43Solitary Cool, solitary room, / occasional swaths of light and slow ceiling fan. . . #101815p #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #solitary #cool #room #swaths #light #fan #ceiling #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #october #101825t #20252025-10-19T02:06:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/18/butterfly-2/2025-10-18T23:35:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/16/sometimes-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_7034f582-a65a-43c9-be6e-592128297cc0.jpgimage_7034f582-a65a-43c9-be6e-592128297cc0Sometimes Sometimes, what I see, / heavy yet light in the sky, / are moments of you. . . #sometimes #heavy #light #moments #see #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #monday #102623 #2023 #haiga2025-10-17T02:09:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/15/mischievous/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_dc737a95-1401-44e9-a9ee-1b6f9f9e4086.jpgimage_dc737a95-1401-44e9-a9ee-1b6f9f9e4086Mischievous Fall’s dappled sunlight / mischievously highlights / a gray and white cat. / . . #mischevious #highlights #cat #sunlight #fall #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #october #wednesday #101525 #20252025-10-16T03:33:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/14/window-dressing/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_9884e7ad-bb86-4b4d-aba3-013d6f647443.jpgimage_9884e7ad-bb86-4b4d-aba3-013d6f647443Window dressing Brown leaves on window, / curled into an empty grip. / Summer’s embrace gone. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #summer #leaves #window #embrace #brown #oldnorthknoxville #photo #davidebooker #october #wednesday #2021 #101321 #haiga2025-10-14T04:08:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/13/canopy-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_0bd9e989-e2a2-4f7a-b1d8-b8df732de6fc.jpgimage_0bd9e989-e2a2-4f7a-b1d8-b8df732de6fcCanvas Trees and clouds above, / canopy over the street. / Shadows dance below. . . #canvas #shadows #street #trees #clouds #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #monday #101325 #20252025-10-14T00:19:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/13/moment-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_392e54f1-16c5-41a3-8981-637c6d0286c8.jpgimage_392e54f1-16c5-41a3-8981-637c6d0286c82025-10-13T05:06:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/12/morning-7/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_5d7c7716-61ec-4386-b093-b421bcaa0d7e.jpgimage_5d7c7716-61ec-4386-b093-b421bcaa0d7eMorning Squirrel chatters. / Mockingbird trills three times. / Cat purrs quietly. . . #morning #cat #squirrel #mockingbird #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #october #sunday #101225 #20252025-10-12T16:48:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/11/their-eyes-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_d21f61de-38fe-4c13-8260-90c66060a4f9.jpgimage_d21f61de-38fe-4c13-8260-90c66060a4f9Their eyes Eyes pointed skyward / Simulacra of wildlife / Their souls breathing clouds. . . #haiku #poem #poet #poetry #writing #writer #davidebooker #saturday #september #2019 #deerheads #eyes #simulacra #soul #clouds #wildlife #breathing #091419 #haiga2025-10-12T02:07:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/11/where-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_2270778d-6c62-4c0b-8a6c-6a0416f7b34b.jpgimage_2270778d-6c62-4c0b-8a6c-6a0416f7b34bWhere Where does the heart go / when fall turns Maple leaves red / and sends the warmth home? . . #where #fall #leaves #maple #warmth #heart #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #101125 #20252025-10-11T04:08:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/10/photo-finish-friday-permission/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_28ffa738-436e-43b5-830b-4ebefc3e614b.jpgimage_28ffa738-436e-43b5-830b-4ebefc3e614bPersimmons Persimmons blush / in the October sunlight. / Orange orbs ripen. . . #persimmons #orange #orbs #blush #october #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #friday #101025 #20252025-10-10T04:17:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/09/falling-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_2118bb1d-3ce1-4806-b672-0a7c6d1a0ddc.jpgimage_2118bb1d-3ce1-4806-b672-0a7c6d1a0ddcFalling Shadows, cane, and leaves. / Sunlight falls through bare branches. / Memories fall, too. . . #memories #cane #leaves #branches #shadows #sunlight #fall #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #sunday #100922 #2022 #haiga2025-10-10T03:41:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/09/chapter-one-the-escape/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_25d76b51-1c36-4680-a935-47579d4e32a0.jpgChapter One: The EscapeChapter One: The Escape2025-10-09T22:29:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/07/hours/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_6ef27e7d-a3ca-4d61-a9db-b31f52908182.pngimage_6ef27e7d-a3ca-4d61-a9db-b31f529081822025-10-08T03:54:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/06/naked/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_9ecac58b-1046-440d-8462-17589297a144.jpgimage_9ecac58b-1046-440d-8462-17589297a144Naked The sun sheds its light, / turned earthward by the moon, / naked under the stars. . . #naked #sun #stars #moon #earthward #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #monday #100625 #20252025-10-07T03:39:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/05/death-becomes-you/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_112a385d-96af-46cb-a90e-606e9bc6dae3.jpgimage_112a385d-96af-46cb-a90e-606e9bc6dae3Death becomes you Death becomes you, my dear. Let me hold your hand so our selfie is clear. Get my bare bones, they show me the best. All that flesh and muscle -- begone all the rest. I'll wear my cap. You wear your smile. Don't worry about missing teeth. It's been a while. . . #poem #poetry #selfie #death #bones #cap #smile #teeth #skeleton #halloween #aceatkins #davidebooker #october #2021 #1001212025-10-06T03:06:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/05/fall-flowers-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_2629b169-49da-4ec1-bfc2-3218f1d1a13a.jpgimage_2629b169-49da-4ec1-bfc2-3218f1d1a13aFall flowers Fall flowers, ground change / temperatures grow downward / light blooms slowly. . . #100517 #fallflowers #ground #temperatures #blooms #light # haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #october #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #20172025-10-06T02:10:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/05/morning-glory-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_899a8bd4-8c03-4623-ab8b-e31433d1fbee.jpgimage_899a8bd4-8c03-4623-ab8b-e31433d1fbeeMorning glory Trumpeting today / the morning glory funnels / a bit of the sun. . . #morning #glory #funnel #trumpet #today #sun #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #100524 #20242025-10-05T15:51:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/04/old-orange/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_b47518d6-908f-4b6c-883c-21f5764ed97d.jpgimage_b47518d6-908f-4b6c-883c-21f5764ed97dOld orange Old orange cat naps / as a young October breeze / whispers the future. . . #old #orange #whispers #future #cat #october #breeze #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #saturday #100425 #2025 #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville2025-10-05T02:35:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/03/photo-finish-friday-windows/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_8557da09-4955-454f-852a-a1a7778e3edd.jpgimage_8557da09-4955-454f-852a-a1a7778e3eddWindows Windows ripple / as new colors are layered / upon an old house. . . #windows #ripple #colors #layered #house #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #friday #100325 #20252025-10-04T02:29:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/03/haiku-to-you-thursday-blush/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_fa23f139-019c-4b2e-b23f-80ab662f3ab8.jpgimage_fa23f139-019c-4b2e-b23f-80ab662f3ab8Blush A blush of fall red / highlights the Maple tree’s edge. / Soon coloring all. . . #blush #fall #red #maple #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #thursday #100225 #20252025-10-03T04:01:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/02/light-7/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_0ee4d380-08f0-42b4-82b2-1e82140e050e.jpgimage_0ee4d380-08f0-42b4-82b2-1e82140e050eLight The light sees nothing: / no reflections, no shadows, / nothing gone, no you. . . #light #nothing #shadows #reflections #sees #you #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #knoxville #september #friday #093022 #2022 #haiga2025-10-02T08:15:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/10/02/obit/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image_120e31f3-7fc9-4cfe-87fa-8f113c411167.jpgimage_120e31f3-7fc9-4cfe-87fa-8f113c411167Obit Acorns on the road, misshapen to the moment, obit underfoot. . . #100125 #092712draft #haiku #poem #poetry #obit #road #acorns #moment #underfoot #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #october #wednesday #2012draft #20252025-10-02T08:15:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/29/illusions-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_443bdd16-aa19-4962-bd1c-2e40421937c6.jpgimage_443bdd16-aa19-4962-bd1c-2e40421937c6Illusions Illusions of time: / tomorrow or the next life? / Then the night takes me. . . #illusions #time #tomorrow #life #night #me #senryu #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #september #091425p #092924t #2025 #092925 #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker2025-09-30T03:52:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/28/recedes/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_f67e2912-8e60-424f-9a2e-657f2074573e.jpgimage_f67e2912-8e60-424f-9a2e-657f2074573eRecedes September sun shines / ripening late tomatoes / as the Earth recedes. . . #recedes #september #tomatoes #earth #sun #ripening #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #sunday #092825 #20252025-09-29T03:53:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/28/bee-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_3b9d4bcd-680b-450b-93c3-74f9595d318e.jpgimage_3b9d4bcd-680b-450b-93c3-74f9595d318eBee A bee stops by, / maybe as confused as I. / No bud here to try. . . #bee #try #I #confused #senryu #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #saturday #092725 #20252025-09-28T04:00:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/26/reflection-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_2953de53-a2c2-400f-88cd-2732d11105f6.jpgimage_2953de53-a2c2-400f-88cd-2732d11105f6Reflection Images appear / as I stare at the window. / All are moment’s past / carried through time by a light / empty of your memory. . . #reflection #tanka #window #past #images #time #light #memory #poem #poetry #knoxville #davidebooker #september #friday #091622 #2022 #haiga #photo2025-09-26T17:27:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/26/fall-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_dfbcefe9-1fd0-47c7-b3ad-0323d680732c.jpgimage_dfbcefe9-1fd0-47c7-b3ad-0323d680732cFall Stretched out and relaxed, / cat lies across the railing, / empty as the fall. . . #empty #fall #cat #railing #relaxed #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #friday #2025 #0926252025-09-26T04:27:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/25/eyes-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_4cb47b53-7023-43c3-934d-ddc7ea5896a9.jpgimage_4cb47b53-7023-43c3-934d-ddc7ea5896a9Eyes From the dark, eyes peer / into the rising, warm day. / Questions fall like leaves. . . #fall #leaves #eyes #questions #day #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #wednesday #092122 #2022 #haiga2025-09-26T03:42:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/25/others/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_58c2441e-3369-4278-8301-a1ee5e588ebd.jpgimage_58c2441e-3369-4278-8301-a1ee5e588ebdOthers Sartre once said / Hell was other people. / He was not alone. . . #others #hell #sartre #people #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #081823t #septemper #wednesday #092425 #20252025-09-25T04:01:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/23/transition/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_eba46f02-7e3f-4097-bf59-72b1d80024b3.jpgimage_eba46f02-7e3f-4097-bf59-72b1d80024b3Transition Leaves cluster below / driven earthward by fall rain. / Crowning the cool ground. . . #transition #leaves #cluster #fall #rain #ground #earthward #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #tuesday #092325 #20252025-09-24T02:19:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/22/oh-monday-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image.pngimage2025-09-23T03:47:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/21/unread/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_174bf87d-517a-4d6a-8e58-e5ea6c1591b3.jpgimage_174bf87d-517a-4d6a-8e58-e5ea6c1591b3Unread Fortune, no fortune / no future in my cookie / my cookie unread. . . #unread #fortune #future #cookie #my #unread #poem #poetry #haiga #haike #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #september #sunday #092125 #20252025-09-21T06:25:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/19/remains/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_1fec8c37-0c8c-4268-85f2-b1d63be1c645.jpgimage_1fec8c37-0c8c-4268-85f2-b1d63be1c645Remains Dead sunflower head, / ashtray for the shells left by those / feasting on your life. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #remains #ashtray #seeds #sunflower #feast #oldnorthknoxville #photo #davidebooker #sunday #september #2021 #haiga #0919212025-09-20T03:42:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/19/photo-finish-friday-summer-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_e5922a37-d2b5-4669-bf1e-d0c5f4c1ddb2.jpgimage_e5922a37-d2b5-4669-bf1e-d0c5f4c1ddb2Summer Summer is ending / and the sun’s pumpkin orange / glow basks in cat’s fur. . . #summer #cat #sun #fur #pumpkin #haiga #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #friday #091925 #20252025-09-20T00:27:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/17/summer/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_58c128a6-eb42-4977-9bac-f8327ac29101.jpgimage_58c128a6-eb42-4977-9bac-f8327ac29101Summer Summer is ending / and the leaves dance lazily / into Earth’s embrace. . . #summer #earth #leaves #embrace #dance #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #wednesday #091726 #20252025-09-18T02:22:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/17/flee-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_d31d5233-4914-4e68-bb17-a62497d86b16.pngimage_d31d5233-4914-4e68-bb17-a62497d86b162025-09-17T15:50:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/17/flee/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_c71dd6b8-695e-4ab1-aa1a-f714f9a91e72.pngimage_c71dd6b8-695e-4ab1-aa1a-f714f9a91e722025-09-17T08:56:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/15/i-am-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_6cfdb978-bbc8-4ef0-a4a1-e6e546144464.jpgimage_6cfdb978-bbc8-4ef0-a4a1-e6e546144464I am I can lose my place. / Sometimes my place can lose me. / Either way, I am. . . #I #am #place #lose #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #040323t #092525p #2025 #monday2025-09-16T03:34:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/15/america-is-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_2844f3d1-b144-4b19-bca1-88be714b7cf3.jpgimage_2844f3d1-b144-4b19-bca1-88be714b7cf3America is... America is a / flatbed adventure with / pink insulation. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #photooftheday #america #america_is #insulation #adventure #flatbed #monday #september #2020 #knoxville #tennessee #davidebooker #091420 #haiga2025-09-16T02:43:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/13/embers/2025-09-13T22:51:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/11/translucent/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_166011b3-3c56-4fb6-96ea-b7232a671eb3.jpgimage_166011b3-3c56-4fb6-96ea-b7232a671eb3Translucent September sun shines / through translucent oak leaves bathed / with afternoon light. . . #translucent #oak #leaves #sun #afternoon #september #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #wednesday #091025 #20252025-09-11T09:08:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/09/whispers-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_6620175a-635f-4480-8b53-25cbdd825563.jpgimage_6620175a-635f-4480-8b53-25cbdd825563Whispers Thin clouds whisper words. / Afternoon shadows my mind. / Fall sun winks through trees. . . #whispers #clouds #sun #winks #shadows #mind #haiku #poem #poetry #fall #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #tuesday #090925 #20252025-09-10T03:33:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/09/breathe-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_07429c40-985f-4224-9b0e-d9d81c489eae.jpgimage_07429c40-985f-4224-9b0e-d9d81c489eaeBreathe Breathe in the moment. / Breathe out the mind’s chatter. / Breathe, to say the least. . . #breathe #mind #chatter #moment #say #least #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #saturday #083023t #090625 #20252025-09-09T17:47:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/09/beyond/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_b2b77d88-1249-4833-b0ec-84c9f12eb651.jpgimage_b2b77d88-1249-4833-b0ec-84c9f12eb651Beyond Somewhere, beyond the / flag, the sun still shines and hope / unfurls, untarnished. . . #beyond #somewhere #unfurls #flag #sun #hope #untarnished #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #september #sunday #090725 #20252025-09-09T17:47:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/05/two-chairs-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_2127a8c6-c242-435e-9894-7e8344ac8ccc.jpgimage_2127a8c6-c242-435e-9894-7e8344ac8cccTwo chairs We shall find ourselves, / two chairs by an ageless sea, / folding in our names. . . #chairs #sea #we #names #australia #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #mariaforoudi #september #sunday #090422 #2022 #haiga2025-09-06T03:50:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/04/haiku-to-you-thursday-once-above/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_d63e931b-09e4-4574-827e-a0c3887c0f28.jpgimage_d63e931b-09e4-4574-827e-a0c3887c0f28Once above What was once above / descends September today, / blurring sight and streets. . . #once #above #blurring #sight #streets #september #descends #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #thursday #090425 #20252025-09-05T03:58:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/04/hurricane-rain/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_0feeca5a-53a3-4cd3-80f5-0f671a0cc8d0.jpgimage_0feeca5a-53a3-4cd3-80f5-0f671a0cc8d0Hurricane rain Her hurricane rain: / Tattered, battered, liquid skirt. / Dignity falling. . . #hurricane #rain #skirt #dignity #falling #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #august #2021 #090321 #haiku2025-09-05T03:02:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/03/indecision/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_0911e2ef-2112-4346-8055-a75fc39c847c.jpgimage_0911e2ef-2112-4346-8055-a75fc39c847cIndecision Rain off and on, / indecision at the beach, / the gull and me. . . #haiku #indecision #gull # me #beach #rain #photobyBetsyNewman #davidebooker #wednesday #haiga #september #090325 #20252025-09-03T18:54:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/09/02/unpainted/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image_c23873eb-6a0b-4741-9f31-460cf85b36f4.jpgimage_c23873eb-6a0b-4741-9f31-460cf85b36f4Unpainted Out of frame, / an unpainted apple tree / endures the seasons. . . #unpainted #frame #apple #tree #seasons #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #painting #ekphasis #knoxville #davidebooker #september #sunday #090125 #20252025-09-03T01:04:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/31/hey-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_73e6eb00-db28-4c2f-b211-397c69bb700c.jpgimage_73e6eb00-db28-4c2f-b211-397c69bb700cAd on Facebook prompted this off the cuff, tongue in cheek haiku. Hey Hey, girls write first. / If I knew where to find them, / I wouldn’t say a word. . . #hey #girls #write #word #offthecuff #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photonitmine #davidebooker #sunday #august #083125 #20252025-08-31T17:47:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/31/still-life/2025-08-31T05:06:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/29/photo-finish-friday-orphan/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_cbaffbe4-c579-4a07-ac9c-118e4ec325a1.jpgimage_cbaffbe4-c579-4a07-ac9c-118e4ec325a1Orphan Orphaned in my cell, / ten thousand of who I am, / bury my soul. . . #082925 #orphan #soul #cell #senryu #haiku #haiga #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #knoxville #painting #ekphrasis #davidebooker #august #friday #20252025-08-30T03:07:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/28/haiku-to-you-thursday-still/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_e43c158e-9148-451d-9421-12629707bc26.jpgimage_e43c158e-9148-451d-9421-12629707bc26Still Shirt draped over chair. / Shadows trick my memories. / You gone; me here still. . . #memories #ekphrasis #haiku #painting #thursday #082925 #shirt #still #shadows #senryu #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #2025 #august2025-08-29T03:49:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/27/descending/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_4b295a8b-d6fa-4140-bf9e-bea96ae5a361.jpgimage_4b295a8b-d6fa-4140-bf9e-bea96ae5a361Descending Sun fades onto lake. Brown trees embrace the shore. Autumn descending. . . #descending #sun #lake #trees #embrace #shore #autumn #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #painting #davidebooker #august #wednesday #082725 #2025 #ekphrasis2025-08-28T03:30:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/26/august-days/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_ce432862-e52c-4ed2-aa40-96aa732af369.jpgimage_ce432862-e52c-4ed2-aa40-96aa732af369August days Rusted tin man / and dying cornflowers — / August days decay. . . #august #days #tinman #cornflower #decay #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #tuesday #082625 #20252025-08-27T03:49:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/25/latte-dah-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_3440510d-6f69-4a0e-8607-cf2dd4847487.jpgimage_3440510d-6f69-4a0e-8607-cf2dd4847487Latte-dah Summer is over, so Starbucks declares, / bringing forth their fall pumpkin wares. / Temperatures still roiling across the US. / When they will break is anybody’s guess. / Hurricanes hit California and other coasts, / but Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai Latte Starbucks boasts. / It may be 69 days until Halloween / but this declaration seems self-serving and a bit obscene. . . #latte-dah, #summer #starbucks #pumpkin #chai #poem #poetry #satire #illustration #davidebooker #082423 #20232025-08-26T03:43:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/25/my-arrow/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_de34312a-85a7-4412-b89c-00acfdb1667d.jpgimage_de34312a-85a7-4412-b89c-00acfdb1667dMy arrow Oh, love’s arrow, Straight and true, Toward my love, Fly to you. But if my love Should ever stray, May my arrow End your way. . . #082525 #poem #poetry #humor #love #arrow #photonotmine #davidebooker #august #monday #20252025-08-25T15:04:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/24/stops-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_d6a11ba8-fb6c-4cc8-b6b3-5ab87468839c.jpgimage_d6a11ba8-fb6c-4cc8-b6b3-5ab87468839cStops Abandoned portals: / memories echo, dust stirs, / footsteps lead to wind. . . #stops #footsteps #wind #dust #portals #memories #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #august #tuesday #082322 #2022 #haiga2025-08-24T09:33:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/24/refrain/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_aa0647de-49c0-42c8-9d11-3e88d7269664.jpgimage_aa0647de-49c0-42c8-9d11-3e88d7269664Refrain Thunder and rain / August in ugly refrain. / Dog feeling restrained. . . #refrain #restrain #thunder #rain #dog #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #august #sunday #082325 #20252025-08-24T09:03:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/22/know-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_ff043b5d-49c2-4965-8b40-9784195bc50d.jpgimage_ff043b5d-49c2-4965-8b40-9784195bc50dKnow A field of flowers: / bright, showy, and all dressed the same. / Does each know its own? . . #field #flowers #know #showy #own #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #082124 #20242025-08-23T02:13:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/21/haiku-to-you-thursday-portrait/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_d876f65a-26f7-4e2f-9f9c-b154db582685.jpgimage_d876f65a-26f7-4e2f-9f9c-b154db582685Portrait Centuries from now, / a doctor works diligently. / Portrait in time. . . #portrait #doctor #time #centuries #works #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #startrek #mccoy #davidebooker #august #thursday #082125t #081516p #20252025-08-21T07:59:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/19/worry-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_bd6bae30-b957-44e2-bab5-3c97aecbf6bc.jpgimage_bd6bae30-b957-44e2-bab5-3c97aecbf6bcWorry Worry is a leaf / withered in the August sun, / worthless in the fall. . . #worry #withered #worthless #leaf #fall #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #august #tuesday #081925 #082123t #20252025-08-20T03:15:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/17/klatch/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_83e837b2-4d39-45d9-a3a7-f07b75a94d9e.jpgimage_83e837b2-4d39-45d9-a3a7-f07b75a94d9eKlatch The ant coffee klatch / gathering on the leaves / may march soon. . . #klatch #coffee #leaves #march #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #081717p #081725 #20252025-08-18T01:34:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/15/wait/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_025c7d05-6e72-4923-adf7-6b144d471dba.jpgimage_025c7d05-6e72-4923-adf7-6b144d471dbaWait August hugs the air / with clouds and humid goodbyes. / Street lamp waits for fall. . . #wait #street #lamp #august #clouds #goodbyes #fall #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #auburn #alabama #davidebooker #friday #081525 #20252025-08-16T03:44:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/15/sticker-shock/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_e300b1b1-4731-45ef-b408-3a96144f0fcd.jpgimage_e300b1b1-4731-45ef-b408-3a96144f0fcdSticker shock The sticker made it clear: / Do not steal the word of God. / Let preachers do it. . . #sticker #clear #god #word #preachers #shock #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #august #2018. #081518 #knoxvilletn2025-08-15T18:49:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/14/haiku-to-you-thursday-even/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_14777863-9d3c-4d2b-87c9-a381fafb3b89.jpgimage_14777863-9d3c-4d2b-87c9-a381fafb3b89Even Even for the oak / the future begins small / and hidden from sight. . . #even #oak #seed #future #small #hidden #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #august #thursday #081425 #20252025-08-15T03:57:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/14/lost-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_f99844b9-4383-4311-9bfe-4ece433c9885.jpgimage_f99844b9-4383-4311-9bfe-4ece433c9885Lost Man in a boat, / mounted on an eatery wall, / lost his way fishing. . . #lost #man #boat #eatery #fishing #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #legrangega #august #wednesday #081325 #20252025-08-14T04:00:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/11/pause-to-consider/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_2a6b571e-e2f0-4a5b-bb3f-cc80397395c5.pngimage_2a6b571e-e2f0-4a5b-bb3f-cc80397395c52025-08-11T10:01:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/09/curiosity-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image.pngimage2025-08-10T03:58:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/08/hardboiled/2025-08-09T03:57:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/06/the-new-pink/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_3167835e-b2f8-4596-a6a0-67142600d3b3.jpgimage_3167835e-b2f8-4596-a6a0-67142600d3b32025-08-07T03:15:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/06/one-day-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_64a6095a-4466-4824-a9e8-b0137df06d25.jpgimage_64a6095a-4466-4824-a9e8-b0137df06d25One day One day, the days end. / The gravestones mark those days. / The clouds mourn not. . . #one #day #clouds #gravestones #mourn #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #august #tuesday #080525 #20252025-08-06T04:01:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/03/cat-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_38d67c75-845c-4816-a988-5722acebc352.jpgimage_38d67c75-845c-4816-a988-5722acebc352Cat Dreams find you, / even on a cloudy day, / napping on a railing. . . #cat #dreams #napping #day #railing #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #august #sunday #080325 #20252025-08-04T03:58:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/03/see-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_229de1ad-cadf-4f85-947f-74420b56c507.jpgimage_229de1ad-cadf-4f85-947f-74420b56c507See See a soaring face. / See a gray, brooding mountain. / See the clouds misplaced. . . #see #face #mountains #clouds #misplaced #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #saturday #080324 #20242025-08-03T16:02:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/02/soft/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_74e11386-b685-44dc-923d-541194baf040.jpgimage_74e11386-b685-44dc-923d-541194baf040Soft Soft waves stroke the beach. / Soft strokes touch your tired soul. / Recede and return. . . #soft #waves #beach #strokes #soul #recede #return #haiku #poem #poetry #photonotmine #haiga #davidebooker #july #Wednesday #073025t #080225 #20252025-08-03T02:57:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/02/abstract-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_f54531e3-7b10-4f1d-be11-ba9d410364cd.jpgimage_f54531e3-7b10-4f1d-be11-ba9d410364cdAbstract Clouds swirl arabesque, / counting winds, flirting with light. / Gossamer kisses. . . #abstract #arabesque #winds #light #gossamer #kisses #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #august #tuesday #080222 #2022 #haiga2025-08-03T02:29:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/08/01/hope-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_d6eb1016-78aa-455f-8955-e72d95c871ff.jpgimage_d6eb1016-78aa-455f-8955-e72d95c871ffHope Hope flutters my thoughts, / shaded nighttime butterflies, / carrying my dreams. . . #hope #thoughts #butterflies #nighttime #dreams #haiku #poem #poetry #davidebooker #july #Thursday #073125 #20252025-08-01T04:02:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/31/unctuous-humor/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_b25d094a-e941-4741-91e6-2fbefdcb0569.jpgUnctuous humorUnctuous humor2025-07-31T14:25:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/30/adaptable/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_1ce8bdfa-6b64-4a29-8c56-b06f168e2a49.jpgimage_1ce8bdfa-6b64-4a29-8c56-b06f168e2a49Adaptable Adaptable and / pragmatic, the flower finds / a path to grow. . . #adaptable #pragmatic #flower #path #grow #haiku #poem #poetry #haga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #wednesday #073025 #20252025-07-30T17:40:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/29/two-cats/2025-07-29T19:59:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/28/seat-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_019cb7b9-9237-4004-8dd8-19809e153d10.jpgimage_019cb7b9-9237-4004-8dd8-19809e153d10Seat Somewhere a seat waits: / departure or arrival. / love or loneliness. . . #072823 #tennesseetheatre #seat #departure #arrival #love #loneliness #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #july #2023 #haiga2025-07-29T21:51:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/28/sky-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_f58c8766-85cf-4a51-a8ad-cb86bb9bf35b.jpgimage_f58c8766-85cf-4a51-a8ad-cb86bb9bf35bThe sky The clouds above me / Form around a dust whisper / Cry into the night. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #photooftheday #davidebooker #clouds #dust #night #cry #july #tuesday #2020 #sky #haiga #0728202025-07-28T19:14:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/27/thoughts/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_be5129b4-2729-4557-a9d7-a36a91d764a2.jpgimage_be5129b4-2729-4557-a9d7-a36a91d764a2Thoughts Ice cream thoughts rise to / a cotton candy goodbye, / clouds and heat swirl by. . . #thoughts #icecream #clouds #heat #goodbye #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #sunday #072725 #20252025-07-27T06:18:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/25/space/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_31adaeb4-de72-4740-9523-a6e4ca4bd11c.jpgimage_31adaeb4-de72-4740-9523-a6e4ca4bd11cSpace Physical and mental, bruised with color, words, and shapes, walls contour your space. . . #space #walls #mental #physical #bruised #words #color #photo #poem #poetry #shapes #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #july #thursday #071323 #2023 #haiga2025-07-26T02:59:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/25/haiku-to-you-thursday-old-man/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_59f62aa1-0398-49d6-b6a2-b64ec86ddec2.jpgimage_59f62aa1-0398-49d6-b6a2-b64ec86ddec2Old man The sun peers over my shoulder, an old man who gives heat as advice. . . #oldman #sun #shoulder #heat #advice #haiku #poet #poem #haiga #photo #july #friday #davidebooker #thursday #072112t #072425 #20252025-07-25T06:57:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/23/memories-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_d486aefd-41f2-4365-bb37-cd8a49fa3eba.jpgimage_d486aefd-41f2-4365-bb37-cd8a49fa3ebaMemories The oven’s raw heat / and cinnamon’s sweet scent blend / to stir memories. . . #memories #cinnamon #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #wednesday #072325 #2025 #oven #heat #sweet2025-07-23T07:04:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/21/creative-anxiety/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_dad49d92-3f2a-4a9b-8417-d210456aef8d.jpgimage_dad49d92-3f2a-4a9b-8417-d210456aef8dCreative anxiety Oh, those bug farts / give me quite a start. / just tear me apart, / and then I cannot start. / I cannot put pen to paper / Not now, not then, not later. / Any noise is absolute traitor / Drives to a creative nadir. / My computer screen remains blank; / There’s no fuel in the tank / Ideas are skunk skank / If I golfed, it’d be a shank. / A car horn blocks away / Children running round to play / All these reach out and slay / Any creativity today. / Oh, the muses do decree / All these sounds won’t let me be. / Even a leaf from a tree / Is as loud as a crashing sea. / Oh, dear God, if you exist, / Please grant my bucket list / Or at least if you insist / Take away all who made me pissed. / Silence, only silence I can abide. / I accept not your a chide Even your socks across the floor, slide / Make me full of bile and snide. I will not, cannot not live in peace / Until all sound reaches surcease / Until even the bee’s knees / Reach a point of full freeze. . . #072125 #creative #anxiety #writing #poem #poetry #davidebooker #july #monday #20252025-07-22T04:04:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/20/shrug/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_94be2010-b34c-4981-94fa-f7dc2a6b7ef8.jpgimage_94be2010-b34c-4981-94fa-f7dc2a6b7ef8Shrug Ten years have passed. / You were here then; this was home. / The summer sun shrugs. . . #shrug #summer #sun #you #home #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #july #sunday #072025 #20252025-07-21T01:43:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/19/reflection-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_4c90a702-d211-4255-98ac-31d5c69f48ab.jpgimage_4c90a702-d211-4255-98ac-31d5c69f48abReflection From seed into bloom, / the flower does the right thing, / even unto death. . . #071925 #reflection #flower #seed #bloom #death #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #saturday #20252025-07-20T03:45:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/18/dad-joke/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_63b6db02-324d-4b86-928b-2b5a25a58feb.jpgimage_63b6db02-324d-4b86-928b-2b5a25a58feb2025-07-18T14:16:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/17/haiku-to-you-thursday-closet-cross/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_7576f4eb-3ed5-43f8-b405-4f97530440a7.jpgimage_7576f4eb-3ed5-43f8-b405-4f97530440a7Closet cross Closet cross. / Mannequin Christian./ Authoritarian prayers. . . #071725 #closet #cross #prayers #authoritarian #mannequin #christian #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #july #thursday #knoxville #20252025-07-17T23:55:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/15/memories-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_32a5fc53-cf0a-4965-b5ff-841508b5c5d1.jpgimage_32a5fc53-cf0a-4965-b5ff-841508b5c5d1Memories Scraped like old paint, / memories chip away time, / bare in summer’s heat. . . #071525 #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #poem #poetry #photo #memories #time #chip #summer #heat #davidebooker #stormhaven #july #tuesday #20252025-07-16T03:53:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/14/waits-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_62e3c582-b790-4c34-80f7-e4029691386d.jpgimage_62e3c582-b790-4c34-80f7-e4029691386dWaits Around the milkweed / winds Carolina Snailseed / while milkweed bug waits. . . #waits #milkweed #snailseed #carolina #bug #around #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #071425 #2025 #july #Monday2025-07-15T03:57:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/13/place/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_59b93073-006b-464c-a82b-67947f1ae1fe.jpgimage_59b93073-006b-464c-a82b-67947f1ae1fePlace Find your proper place / Even if it’s out of place. / A new beginning. . . #place #beginning #new #outofplace #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #july #sunday #071321t #071325p #20252025-07-14T03:58:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/12/threshold-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_4a0a0bd1-0363-4104-a4c5-38f0cdba4459.jpgimage_4a0a0bd1-0363-4104-a4c5-38f0cdba4459Threshold On the threshold, / cats, moments, and promises / make their short homes. . . #threshold #071225 #homes #cat #moments #promises #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #2025 #july #saturday2025-07-13T01:49:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/11/outlawed/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_4f5b4744-0039-487d-9721-b149e51a4a10.jpgimage_4f5b4744-0039-487d-9721-b149e51a4a102025-07-11T16:52:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/09/never/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_03d5e796-0276-474e-b30e-495b702adba3.jpgimage_03d5e796-0276-474e-b30e-495b702adba3Never Fight and struggle, / strangle and hold; hate and love never live alone. . . #never #fight #struggle #strangle #hold #alone #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #july #wednesday #2025 #0709252025-07-10T03:53:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/08/rebirth-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_b6d8a384-5909-4b2f-8069-15462dac620b.jpgimage_b6d8a384-5909-4b2f-8069-15462dac620bRebirth Rescued from the fall, / sunflowers thrive in the vase. / Summer storm rebirth. . . #rebirth #rescued #summer #storm #sunflowers #vase #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #070824 #20242025-07-09T03:29:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/08/icarus-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_1ca77faf-fd6f-412a-b5f2-00ce1aa37367.jpgimage_1ca77faf-fd6f-412a-b5f2-00ce1aa37367Icarus Beyond the blind clouds, / Icarus lingers, forlorn, / hopes struck by the sun. . . #Icarus #hopes #clouds #sun #forlorn #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #july #monday #070725 #20252025-07-08T04:26:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/06/within/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_8ce359b1-6e7c-46ed-97af-dd6b7ff7468f.jpgimage_8ce359b1-6e7c-46ed-97af-dd6b7ff7468f2025-07-07T00:47:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/05/weirdo-anthem/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image-1.pngimage2025-07-05T05:51:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/05/bone-spur-special/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image.pngimagehttps://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_ebbf88cd-9884-48ed-94f5-9f7add4d1673.jpgimage_ebbf88cd-9884-48ed-94f5-9f7add4d1673Weirdo anthem I’m a weirdo, this I know / Because the Blue Eagle tells me so. / Up above the world so high / Like a star that’s streaked you by. / My little weirdness shines so bright / All my neighbors can’t say good night. / In fair or foul or stormy weather / Friends may leave, but weirdos are forever. . . #070421 #weirdo #eagle #blue #star #friends #photonotmine #poem #poetry #anthem #davidebooker #individualization #20212025-07-05T05:40:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/03/haiku-to-you-thursday-lily-now/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_42b930e9-0c8e-425e-820e-60e954aeb93a.jpgimage_42b930e9-0c8e-425e-820e-60e954aeb93aLily now Yellow like sunlight, / shadows like the fading moon. / Lily now; lost too soon. . . #lily #now #sunlight #moon #shadows #yellow #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #july #thursday #070325 #20252025-07-04T03:53:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/01/smudged-nightmare/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_3f2df200-735a-4016-8559-90f1c4d04932.jpgimage_3f2df200-735a-4016-8559-90f1c4d04932Smudged nightmare Van Gogh nightmare: / sun smudged behind gray clouds. / Swirling — still no sale. . . #070125 #smudged #nightmare #sun #clouds #vangogh #nosale #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #tuesday #070125 #20252025-07-01T23:48:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/07/01/threshold-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image_02668ea8-644f-4046-ae7f-c03122d07a08.jpgimage_02668ea8-644f-4046-ae7f-c03122d07a08Threshold Today speaks decay. / Memory echoes the past. / Threshold whispers, “Why?” . . #threshold #why #echoes #whispers #today #memory #speaks #decay #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #talltalestogo #june #saturday #062522 #2022 #haiga2025-07-01T04:00:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/29/sneak/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_82a7c907-07cd-46c2-bc59-9da62c0f32d6.jpgimage_82a7c907-07cd-46c2-bc59-9da62c0f32d6Sneak Ground hog sneaks for food, / Wet, dry, leftover cat food. / You don’t see me. . . #sneak #food #catfood #leftover #groundhog #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #sunday #062925 #20252025-06-30T03:49:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/29/journeys-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_b52b6747-9e30-4dce-b9d9-254c71716a1d.jpgimage_b52b6747-9e30-4dce-b9d9-254c71716a1dJourneys Sadness, hope, and smiles, / journeys end as they began, / sadness, hope, and smiles. . . #journeys #sadness #hope #smiles #end #begin #photo #poem #poetry #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #tuesday #062822 #2022 #haiga2025-06-30T02:58:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/29/answer/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_8e66cfc4-09c1-47eb-9bc3-8aa9b6ea13e7.jpgimage_8e66cfc4-09c1-47eb-9bc3-8aa9b6ea13e7Answer Answering the sun / the June sunflower unfolds; / pollen calling bees. . . #answer #sunflower #bees #pollen #sun #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #june #saturday #062825 #20252025-06-29T04:48:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/27/photo-finish-friday-treasure/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_af355e06-88bd-460a-9833-0e23e902880f.jpgimage_af355e06-88bd-460a-9833-0e23e902880fTreasure Hidden from the world, / opening under the sun, / one treasure blooms. . . #062725 #treasure #blooms #hidden #world #sun #opening #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #talltalestogo #davidebooker #june #friday #20252025-06-27T23:18:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/26/research/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_a2db2b2d-a792-4f43-a2bb-85daffce1fb2.jpgimage_a2db2b2d-a792-4f43-a2bb-85daffce1fb2Research I am a writer. / Thank you for asking, Bear. / Dog and broom were mum. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #june #tuesday #writer #bear #broom #dog #2020 #haiga #062320 #cartoonnotmine2025-06-27T02:56:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/26/reflection-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_3d4ba2d5-a174-4459-aaf9-9763324c15f8.jpgimage_3d4ba2d5-a174-4459-aaf9-9763324c15f8Reflection Do we fret and strut / Our hour upon the stage then / Leave unreflected? . . #poem #haiku #davidebooker #poet #poetry #write #writer #writing #reflection #unreflected #stage #strut #fret #stage #062619 #2019 #haiga2025-06-26T12:55:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/26/haiku-to-you-thursday-balloons/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_f980ed1f-a6fe-488e-b26d-bf52b7b0850a.jpgimage_f980ed1f-a6fe-488e-b26d-bf52b7b0850aBalloons Little fruit balloons, / bunched together and blooming: / green, red, then deep blue. . . #balloons #green #red #blue #fruit #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #june #thursday #2025 #0626252025-06-26T10:23:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/23/expectation/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-6.pngimage2025-06-25T04:12:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/24/profitable-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-5.pngimage2025-06-25T04:08:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/25/profitable/2025-06-25T04:02:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/24/flies/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_ffab501e-00b1-499a-b7ac-4178b4570807.jpgimage_ffab501e-00b1-499a-b7ac-4178b4570807Flies Flies cluster, / a gathering of desires / seeking relief. . . #flies #desires #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #relief #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #061625t #062325 #june #2025 #monday2025-06-24T11:19:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/21/vacation-2019-3/2025-06-22T02:05:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/21/incantation-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-4.pngimage2025-06-21T21:53:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/20/photo-finish-friday-moment/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_2e28d4ae-6988-497f-8291-c6d0c2285604.jpgimage_2e28d4ae-6988-497f-8291-c6d0c2285604Moment Within a moment / past and future overlap / and the present blooms. . . #moment #past #future #overlap #blooms #present #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #june #friday #062025 #20252025-06-21T03:38:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/18/afternoon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_83d8a457-0e89-4e2c-956e-3ddfd39ddd29.jpgimage_83d8a457-0e89-4e2c-956e-3ddfd39ddd29Afternoon Afternoon sunshine, / gentle June breeze delight and / dance with day lily. . . #afternoon #daylily #sunshine #breeze #dance #delight #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #june #wednesday #061825 #20252025-06-19T03:39:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/17/cat-no-hat/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_3065f59a-34ec-437c-bffe-6227ac135aa0.jpgimage_3065f59a-34ec-437c-bffe-6227ac135aa0Cat, no hat One cat. One evening. / No hat. No children. No rain. / Alone in kitchen. . . #061725 #cat #kitchen #evening #hat #children #rain #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #june #tuesday #20252025-06-18T03:23:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/17/nourish/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_f4cf85e4-3087-4224-8e2b-beaf8f930c4f.jpgimage_f4cf85e4-3087-4224-8e2b-beaf8f930c4fNourish A spring bird’s nest / nestled among young blueberries. / Life nourished twice. . . #nourish #nest #blueberries #life #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #061625 #20252025-06-17T04:02:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/15/one-foot/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_e5ff3783-4625-4244-a99f-e18f53b3a904.jpgimage_e5ff3783-4625-4244-a99f-e18f53b3a904One foot One foot in the grave. / One foot on today’s damp soil. / Flowers gather round. . . #061525 #2025 #one #foot #flowers #grave #soil #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #stonehaven #sunday2025-06-16T03:50:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/14/the-poseur-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_b677c629-d3c0-42bf-90f5-1381e4c1f1cc.jpgimage_b677c629-d3c0-42bf-90f5-1381e4c1f1ccThe Poseur Believes the man of / The Orange Order: My life / Matters more than yours. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poseur #orangeorder #june #sunday #2020 #policestate #davidebooker #trumpsucks #060720 #cartoonnotmine2025-06-14T04:53:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/13/be/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_a48929e3-b417-4160-be1c-eee60a918a06.jpgimage_a48929e3-b417-4160-be1c-eee60a918a06Be Smell the flower’s bloom. / Hear the wisdom of no words. / See and touch and be. . . #see #be #touch #bloom #flower #wisdom #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #june #friday #061323t #061325p #20252025-06-14T03:49:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/13/street-seen-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_456e7470-c8ca-444a-87a1-543533f5df9e.jpgimage_456e7470-c8ca-444a-87a1-543533f5df9eStreet seen I wore shadows. She wore light. We met in the street. The breeze played at painting us together. The sun declined to stay. For a moment, As the light faded, raindrops dappled, and the breeze whispered, We were as one. . . #shadows #light #street #seen #sun #breeze #raindrops #photo #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #monday #061322 #20222025-06-14T02:47:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/12/a-farewell/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_c3db7ab4-cb72-4a26-b641-92a6c47a9269.jpgimage_c3db7ab4-cb72-4a26-b641-92a6c47a9269A farewell A kiss. A cloud. 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sun #haiku #haiga #poem #photo #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #june #saturday #060725 #20252025-06-08T02:31:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/07/touched/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image.pngimage2025-06-08T02:23:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/06/icarus-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_ba1d72ff-5228-4e28-a8af-1892a9646b1f.jpgimage_ba1d72ff-5228-4e28-a8af-1892a9646b1fIcarus Icarus, soaring / between the sunflower and / the sun, hoping. . . #icarus #sunflower #sun #forgetting #soaring #hope #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #sunday #060522 #2022 #haiga2025-06-07T00:01:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/05/haiku-to-you-thursday-tattered/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_cd87a6c2-41d4-46f0-92e5-fa657c7addf8.jpgimage_cd87a6c2-41d4-46f0-92e5-fa657c7addf8Tattered The tattered bag flies, / waving in the moment now / and at the one past. . . #tattered #bag #moment #waving #one #past #haiku #photo #poem #poetry #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #june #thursday #060525 #20252025-06-06T03:59:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/05/entice/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_dddce74e-a7fa-4cc4-9b63-cf77b3c015f2.jpgimage_dddce74e-a7fa-4cc4-9b63-cf77b3c015f2Entice When reaching for stars, / expect flowers to entice. / They want their chances, too. . . #entice #flowers #stars #chances #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #wednesday #060425 #20252025-06-05T04:03:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/03/blooms/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_e06c4a34-472d-46ee-9f6d-b808bf05e23b.jpgimage_e06c4a34-472d-46ee-9f6d-b808bf05e23bBlooms Ditch lily frilly. / White hydrangea pillowy. / Summer blooms silly. . . #blooms #lily #hydrangea #summer #silly #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #june #tuesday #060325 #20252025-06-04T03:59:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/02/chairs/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_7cf3ddfa-9a02-4838-97c1-073a421529f9.jpgimage_7cf3ddfa-9a02-4838-97c1-073a421529f9Chairs Two chairs at dusk sit / in the shadows, gathering / the ghosts of late light. . . #chairs #ghosts #light #dusk #shadows #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #june #monday #06022562 #20252025-06-03T03:55:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/02/watch-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_7a31d7ac-3866-45dd-a620-4f54c1f9827a.jpgimage_7a31d7ac-3866-45dd-a620-4f54c1f9827aWatch Clouds below the moon, / sunlight lingers on mountains. / Watch the evening come. . . #clouds #sunlight #moon #mountains #evening #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #thursday #060123 #2023 #haiga2025-06-02T08:54:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/06/01/little-fox/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image_70b2f4c9-fcd3-49c4-a3e6-e5e64889409f.jpgimage_70b2f4c9-fcd3-49c4-a3e6-e5e64889409fSituated 8,000 light-years away, giant stars form at the heart of the “little fox” constellation. These giant stars are some of the biggest in the galaxy, some even containing dozens of times the mass of the sun. Discover more : http://go.nasa.gov/22wqrfy2025-06-01T20:53:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/31/dapple/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_8d930e5a-cc38-4750-bf2b-22e248db99db.jpgimage_8d930e5a-cc38-4750-bf2b-22e248db99dbDapple Dappled light and shade / scatter across the young cat / soundlessly rippling. . . #dapple #ripple #cat #light #shade #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #saturday #053125 #20252025-06-01T02:40:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/30/photo-finish-friday-knots/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_d9fbcdc0-b508-4cd8-94d3-1c6262fc7428.jpgimage_d9fbcdc0-b508-4cd8-94d3-1c6262fc7428Knots The fierce rain falls, / then the Gordian clouds part. / Knots untied in the sky. . . #knots #rain #gordian #clouds #sky #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #053025 #20252025-05-31T03:59:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/30/haiku-to-you-thursday-bespeckled/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_b4b18f0a-a35d-492d-884f-33b7f3a1f9f3.jpgimage_b4b18f0a-a35d-492d-884f-33b7f3a1f9f3Bespeckled Bespeckled by rain, / bright asiatic lilies / shine like yellow suns. . . #bespeckled #lilies #suns #rain #shine #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #may #thursday #052925 #20252025-05-30T04:02:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/29/true-love/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_c7026ac1-ae2a-4070-a78e-abd435e9c2e7.jpgimage_c7026ac1-ae2a-4070-a78e-abd435e9c2e7True love It was not true love. / I lost my head for spinach. / Olive, please forgive. . . #truelove #spinach #052718 #2018 #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #popeye #may #knoxville2025-05-30T01:50:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/28/darkness-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_adafb0f5-be8f-4ec4-9efa-35b032399157.jpgimage_adafb0f5-be8f-4ec4-9efa-35b032399157Darkness What of the darkness / do you see? Finding the light, / can there be, you and me? . . #darkness #see #be #you #me #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #wednesday #052825 #2025 #may2025-05-28T23:34:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/27/signs-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_5118274c-c581-489a-9146-3573956a00a2.jpgimage_5118274c-c581-489a-9146-3573956a00a2Signs VBS signs bloom, / weeding out the heathens. / Oh, Summer, I’m one. . . #signs #vbs #summer #heathens #weeding #haigu #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #052725 #20252025-05-28T03:49:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/25/momentarily/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_20865f6f-de2c-455f-b313-461c36fe5f68.jpgimage_20865f6f-de2c-455f-b313-461c36fe5f68Momentarily Red among the green, / the cardinal grips a limb — / momentarily. . . #momentarily #cardinal #limb #red #green #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #photobyJenniferLubke #davidebooker #may #sunday #052525 #20252025-05-25T22:47:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/25/sing-the-truth/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_db43cc95-31d3-4d14-8e00-35fe29881d0a.jpgimage_db43cc95-31d3-4d14-8e00-35fe29881d0a2025-05-25T20:52:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/25/looking-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/500936131_18514274611015057_3190546888443859647_n.jpg500936131_18514274611015057_3190546888443859647_n2025-05-25T16:39:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/24/photo-finish-friday-sweet-pea/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_b8576873-e5ad-437d-a5e7-f14fb3345488.jpgimage_b8576873-e5ad-437d-a5e7-f14fb3345488Sweet pea The iris have peaked, / the day lilies yet to bloom, / the sweet pea shines. . . #sweetpea #shines #daylily #iris #bloom #peaked #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #stormhaven #may #friday #052325 #20252025-05-24T04:00:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/23/thunderhead-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_3fb4d1a9-dc90-4555-a0b0-f321a0a9c24c.jpgimage_3fb4d1a9-dc90-4555-a0b0-f321a0a9c24cThunderhead Thunderhead in the sky / I watch you blithely float by. / Why no rain? Say why. . . #thunderhead #cloud #rain #float #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #may #sunday #052222 #2022 #haiga2025-05-24T03:28:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/23/delicacy-a-sad-sad-false-delicacy/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/464314549_8860092477355001_612906484374810089_n.jpg464314549_8860092477355001_612906484374810089_n2025-05-24T02:06:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/22/haiku-to-you-thursday-listened/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_c2553601-349d-423d-a224-1518ece14bbd.jpgimage_c2553601-349d-423d-a224-1518ece14bbdListened We sat and listened. / When does breeze become wind? / Leaves and chimes opined. . . #wind #chimes #breeze #listened #leaves #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #senryu #davidebooker #may #thursday #031923p #052225t #20252025-05-23T03:17:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/21/desire-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_e8f51151-3d32-4d9e-a9ea-3f1c2398c77c.jpgimage_e8f51151-3d32-4d9e-a9ea-3f1c2398c77cDesires Through its own desires, / the Virginia Spiderwort / returns and blooms. . . #desires #virginiaspiderwort #returns #blooms #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #may #wednesday #052125 #20252025-05-22T00:55:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/19/ripe-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_cde653d4-4326-4d5d-9a1c-6ac2f78f5aae.jpgimage_cde653d4-4326-4d5d-9a1c-6ac2f78f5aaeRipe Reach for your today. / Blueberry is ripe when ripe. / Celebrate it now. . . #ripe #celebrate #blueberry #today #reach #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #monday #051925 #20252025-05-20T03:33:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/19/battlefield/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_a25fe8b1-e00d-436a-92d2-0f5cc048e1dc.jpgimage_a25fe8b1-e00d-436a-92d2-0f5cc048e1dcA British sentry cuts a lonely picture as he stands at his post at sunrise in France, March 1915. Battlefield Battlefield sentry, / fearing with the sunrise that / fog and hope will lift. . . #battlefield #sentry #fear #fog #hope #sunrise #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photonotmine #May #Sunday #051825 #2025 #davidebooker2025-05-19T04:27:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/18/hail-mary/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-7.pngimage2025-05-18T23:24:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/17/harsh/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_50ed4afb-4c6a-4524-bc7c-fd9a5236a1d4.jpgimage_50ed4afb-4c6a-4524-bc7c-fd9a5236a1d4Harsh Harsh, the sky, burns gray / a smoldering blanket over / over soil and sail. . . #haiku, #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #harsh #sky #blanket #sail #soul #may #saturday #051725 #20252025-05-18T04:05:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/17/devils-love-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-6.pngimage2025-05-18T03:08:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/16/photo-finish-friday-first/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_b1acceda-37bc-4d71-9690-60be501ea073.jpgimage_b1acceda-37bc-4d71-9690-60be501ea073First Yellow and skyward, / the first Susan of the season. / Flower and freedom. . . #first #yellow #skyward #Susan #season #flower #freedom #haiku #poem # poetry #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #051425tp #may #friday #2025 #051625 #photobynataliekurylo2025-05-17T03:34:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/16/ripening-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-5.pngimage2025-05-16T07:15:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/16/wheels/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-4.pngimage2025-05-16T05:41:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/15/haiku-to-you-thursday-coneflower/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/497552191_18512417908015057_1062370548195590429_n.jpg497552191_18512417908015057_1062370548195590429_n2025-05-16T03:20:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/14/homegrown/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_ef1926f3-562e-457a-86c2-eda9342399fb.jpgimage_ef1926f3-562e-457a-86c2-eda9342399fbHomegrown Homegrown blue- and rasp- / berries held in a ball cap: / stains soak in the crown. . . #homegrown #cap #blueberries #raspberries #stains #crown #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #051325 #20252025-05-15T03:51:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/14/curiosity-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/468296324_10161405576434845_4331524406821022606_n.jpg468296324_10161405576434845_4331524406821022606_n2025-05-14T14:04:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/11/author/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_ed791406-7c0f-4ca0-a333-f1528684e4c2.jpgimage_ed791406-7c0f-4ca0-a333-f1528684e4c2Author Author, dear author, / I relent, I repent, I plead: / “Give me one more chance!” . . #051125 #2025 #author #relent #repent #plead #chance #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #tomgould #cartoonnotmine #may #sunday2025-05-11T19:02:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/11/one-tries/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_99afd0ca-7a1c-4fda-8b07-533cc6d09dbd.jpgimage_99afd0ca-7a1c-4fda-8b07-533cc6d09dbdOne tries One lies and one stands, / cat in darkness, dog in light. / 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#poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #sunday #050822 #2022 #haiga2025-05-10T19:53:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/09/photo-finish-friday-sweet-iris/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_85056feb-a113-469b-8f59-d8ef6259a857.jpgimage_85056feb-a113-469b-8f59-d8ef6259a857Sweet iris Sweet iris, three blooms: / birth wrapped, life unfurled, death gnarled. / Three phases, one root. . . #sweet #iris #blooms #birth #life #death #root #phases #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #friday #050925 #20252025-05-10T01:09:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/08/haiku-to-you-thursday-nimbus/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-3.pngimage2025-05-09T03:58:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/07/tall-tale-3/2025-05-08T02:37:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/07/oh-geezerdom/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-2.pngimage2025-05-08T02:09:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/06/may/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-1.pngimagehttps://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image.pngimage2025-05-07T02:22:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/05/skirt-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_48fe17cf-0694-4bb5-911c-4729a413916d.jpgimage_48fe17cf-0694-4bb5-911c-4729a413916dSkirt Iris rise from dark soil, / dress in a skirt of May rain, / bloom and fall from light. . . #skirt #iris #rain #May #light #bloom #soil #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #Sunday #050524 #20242025-05-06T02:50:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/05/desires/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_3262e8cc-fa04-44c0-93d8-6cb85c953dfd.jpgimage_3262e8cc-fa04-44c0-93d8-6cb85c953dfdDesires Devil-in-a-bush / dances like love-in-a-mist / with warm-spring desires. . . #desires #devil-in-a-mist #love-in-a-mist #dances #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #monday #050525 #20252025-05-05T04:59:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/04/dance-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_65c89ace-01e7-46dc-8866-75d67c827484.jpgimage_65c89ace-01e7-46dc-8866-75d67c827484Dance Some Iris bloom / while other Iris blooms die. / Light and shadows dance. . . #dance #blooms #Iris #die #light #shadows #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #saturday #042923 #2023 #haiga2025-05-05T03:01:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/03/recipe-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_78caa2f8-5812-4ca1-9696-a55eaf472e8e.jpgimage_78caa2f8-5812-4ca1-9696-a55eaf472e8eRecipe Recipe and hands, / ingredients and oven, / turn time into bread. . . #recipe #hands #ingredients #oven #bread #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #saturday #050325 #20252025-05-04T03:57:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/02/photo-finish-friday-on-the-road/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_113679ea-98d5-4ac8-8faa-56b87256689e.jpgimage_113679ea-98d5-4ac8-8faa-56b87256689eOn the road On the road to spring, / the iris and the rose met / after a May rain. . . #road #iris #rose #spring #rain #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #May #Friday #050225 #20252025-05-03T03:50:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/02/pilgrims/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/494572694_9870056583033677_7542758006792173114_n.jpg494572694_9870056583033677_7542758006792173114_n2025-05-02T04:39:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/05/01/haiku-to-you-thursday-oh-dot/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image_d5b35f8b-72ba-41fb-b2d4-a686d99a0efe.jpgimage_d5b35f8b-72ba-41fb-b2d4-a686d99a0efeOh, Dot Oh, Dot, you left me / amongst wet Iris mourners: / rust and memories. . . #dot #rust #memories #iris #mourners #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #thursday #050125 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Thinking of you now. / Remembering your roots now. / Flowers bloom in town. . . #now #flowers #thinking #remembering #you #town #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #birthday #041922 #2022 #haiga2025-04-20T02:54:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/19/give-em/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_ed22405f-80e7-468a-be73-1dce8d36cdae.jpgimage_ed22405f-80e7-468a-be73-1dce8d36cdaeExtended magazine of inaction. Give ‘em. Give 'em a gun; give 'em a Bible. / Watch as they turn and go tribal. / "An Act of God," is their refrain / as the children cry out in pain. . . #give #bible #pain #tribal #refrain #cartoonnotmine #poem #poetry #guns #davidebooker #040815 #20152025-04-20T02:19:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/19/light-gone-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/435669153_7569186563120702_6083142678398020626_n.jpg435669153_7569186563120702_6083142678398020626_n2025-04-19T05:28:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/18/photo-finish-friday-wings-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_b1dac89a-6e4c-4b1f-b6fd-f62ef84ee482.jpgimage_b1dac89a-6e4c-4b1f-b6fd-f62ef84ee482Wings April has wings / working as the sun descends / building blueberries. . . #041825 #2025 wings #blueberries #sun #April #bumblebee #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #041825 #20252025-04-18T23:17:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/17/haiku-to-you-thursday-be/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image-3.pngimage2025-04-18T03:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/16/bumble-bee/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image-2.pngimage2025-04-17T04:27:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/17/grasp-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_93f64ab2-d8bd-45d6-9d89-d0371ce49457.jpgimage_93f64ab2-d8bd-45d6-9d89-d0371ce49457Grasp Palm to the blue sky, / I grasp the day as clouds sail / across my fingers. . . #palm #sky #clouds #sail #fingers #across #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #sunday #041623 #2023 #haiga2025-04-17T04:09:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/16/memory-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_5ab6cb37-53d9-48d4-b4e0-1737ec4a15ec.jpgimage_5ab6cb37-53d9-48d4-b4e0-1737ec4a15ecMemory Red columbine, / shooting star through April rain, / lights my memories. . . #columbine #memory #light #red #shootingstar #april #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photo #friday #041522 #2022 #haiga #senryu2025-04-16T04:10:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/15/only-a-rose/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_de9b8cf3-2392-49fa-b619-2c1540bbf8b9.jpgimage_de9b8cf3-2392-49fa-b619-2c1540bbf8b9Only a rose It’s only a rose / touched by the morning sun and / memories of you. . . #rose #only #morning #sun #moments #you #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #senryu #davidebooker #Monday #April #041525 #20252025-04-16T01:55:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/14/demon-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_975e9b0f-3c04-43af-91de-d9ce63938917.jpgimage_975e9b0f-3c04-43af-91de-d9ce63938917Demon Demon at my feet / Rests in peanut butter / Anticipation. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #2019 #april #thursday #peanutbutter #dog #demon #anticipation #feet #davidebooker #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #0404192025-04-15T02:02:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/14/the-coat/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_9da90b7e-7c0f-4064-af32-eb45a71a594a.jpgimage_9da90b7e-7c0f-4064-af32-eb45a71a594aThe coat Spring dons its green coat, / undertaking new life while / wearing death beneath. . . #coat #spring #life #undertaking #death #beneath #green #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #monday #041425 #20252025-04-14T06:01:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/13/in-a-slump/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image-1.pngimage2025-04-13T23:20:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/12/crossroads-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_c05a9ab5-c67e-45ac-9a0a-125b7f589865.jpgimage_c05a9ab5-c67e-45ac-9a0a-125b7f589865Crossroads At the crossroads / crowds and opinions vary, / even when alone. . . #crossroads #crowds #opinions #alone #vary #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #april #marchphoto #saturday #041225 #030823t #20252025-04-13T03:55:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/11/dark-bloom/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_e973761f-542e-4298-8281-bc70665146dd.pngimage_e973761f-542e-4298-8281-bc70665146dd2025-04-12T03:39:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/10/haiku-to-you-thursday-compassion/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_046f2dd9-57bc-49f8-a467-4b0de5e6f49c.jpgimage_046f2dd9-57bc-49f8-a467-4b0de5e6f49cCompassion Compassion flowers / within and then blooms outward / until it gardens all. . . #compassion #within #blooms #garden #flowers # haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #041025 #2025 #040323t2025-04-11T03:25:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/09/silence-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_bf0531d3-79a6-49ae-96b8-471773325c6a.jpgimage_bf0531d3-79a6-49ae-96b8-471773325c6aSilence Stand in the silence. / It is never empty / if you are there. . . #silence #stand #empty #you #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #april #wednesday #040925 #20252025-04-10T01:11:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/09/bringing-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_f8e08717-bb48-440b-88be-c2590041518e.jpgimage_f8e08717-bb48-440b-88be-c2590041518eBringing Sun said to Iris: / “I bring forth a new Spring day. / You bring forth new life.” . . #haiku #poem #poetry #sun #iris #spring #life #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photooftheday #poemoftheday #april #friday #2021 #040921 #haiga2025-04-09T22:27:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/08/cherry-tree/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_df6c5d06-bc1c-4d4b-872d-ca8cbfd87f0c.jpgimage_df6c5d06-bc1c-4d4b-872d-ca8cbfd87f0cCherry tree Bright in the sunshine, / the flowering cherry tree, / rains pedals to earth. . . #cherry #tree #pedals #sunshine #earth #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletennessee #davidebooker #april #tuesday #040825 #20252025-04-09T00:40:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/07/stray-cat/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_ccf887d5-3a7d-4ec2-a258-9ff7e83dde3b.jpgimage_ccf887d5-3a7d-4ec2-a258-9ff7e83dde3bStray cat Ah, that stray cat / hiding out in search of / a stolen breakfast. . . #stray #cat #breakfast #search #stolen #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #april #monday #040725 #20252025-04-08T02:13:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/06/april-rains/2025-04-07T02:36:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/05/shots-fired/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image.pngimage2025-04-06T03:55:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/04/photo-finish-friday-ahead/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_573ba536-dae8-4fac-bbe8-75695d95132e.jpgimage_573ba536-dae8-4fac-bbe8-75695d95132eAhead The two-way nympho: / who beheaded the woman? is she one-way now? . . #ahead #nympho #beheaded #twoway #oneway #spoof #haiku #poem #poetry #humor #haiga #photo #bookeddy #davidebooker #april #friday #040425 #20252025-04-04T21:55:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/03/haiku-to-you-thursday-wind-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_78158985-64c4-41a2-aec3-1596c099e1e4.jpgimage_78158985-64c4-41a2-aec3-1596c099e1e4Wind Wind ripples the flag, / slapping at the stars and stripes, / tattering the dreams. . . #wind #flag #slapping #tattering #dreams #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #april #thursday #040425 #20252025-04-04T03:55:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/02/poppy/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image_0264caf5-7e5d-4209-b35e-00aa47ee470b.jpgimage_0264caf5-7e5d-4209-b35e-00aa47ee470bPoppy Celandine poppy, / bright yellow, blooming in spring, / scent of poetry. . . #poppy #celandine #scent #yellow #spring #poetry #haiku #poem #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #april #wednesday #040225 #20252025-04-03T02:46:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/04/01/soft-bread/2025-04-02T01:21:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/30/holding-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_d9b37490-518f-4ae9-ba8c-9701a57c240f.jpgimage_d9b37490-518f-4ae9-ba8c-9701a57c240fHolding Pandora held her hope. / Schrödinger held his question. / I hold blooms and rain. . . #holding #pandora #schrodinger #hope #question #blooms #rain #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #march #sunday #033025 #2025 #senryu2025-03-30T16:39:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/27/haiku-to-you-thursday-schrodinger-declined/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_b3811c99-897a-446d-91d2-90dcdcced929.jpgimage_b3811c99-897a-446d-91d2-90dcdcced929Schrödinger declined Schrödinger declined. / I am not dead or alive. / I am the box. . . #schrodinger #declined #dead #alive #box #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #thursday #032825 #20252025-03-28T03:32:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/26/skeleton-of-memories/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_15f01a09-0627-4b7e-be93-5115d1e3a28f.jpgimage_15f01a09-0627-4b7e-be93-5115d1e3a28fSkeleton of memories Winter killed our tree. / Don’t know if it was before, / during, or after / your death. Dead limbs hang barren: / no buds, no leaves, no cherries. / Skeleton of memories. . . #death #tree #limbs #winter #skeleton #memories #waka #poem #poetry #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #photo #march #friday #032522 #2022 #haiga #tanka2025-03-27T00:54:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/26/letting-go/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_003240a1-518a-4f57-b36b-b234eeb2d5db.jpgimage_003240a1-518a-4f57-b36b-b234eeb2d5dbLetting go Setting sun lets go, / leaving to our foolish night / the dark undressing. . . #lettinggo #sun #night #dark #ungrasping #our #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #wednesday #talltalestogo #032625 #20252025-03-26T17:30:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/25/remembering-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_f3ae1a36-1022-40d1-862d-e79c98a75e57.jpgimage_f3ae1a36-1022-40d1-862d-e79c98a75e57Remembering Even in fixed death / there is the wounding beauty / of remembrance. . . #remembering #death #wounding #beauty #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #march #saturday #032523 #2023 #haiga2025-03-26T03:25:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/25/painted/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_023d9e8c-cb19-446b-afe8-d681589ee444.jpgimage_023d9e8c-cb19-446b-afe8-d681589ee444Painted Pollen paints car glass. / Impressionist spring canvas. / Breeze leaves its brush strokes. . . #painted #pollen #breeze #glass #impressionist #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #tuesday #032525 #20252025-03-26T03:03:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/24/catkins/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_74a222ca-edd1-4622-83b0-ce2134668569.jpgimage_74a222ca-edd1-4622-83b0-ce2134668569Catkins Oak catkins dangle, / sway in the evening March breeze. / Ghosts of spring twilight. . . #catkins #oak #ghosts #spring #twilight #breeze #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #davidebooker #march #monday #032425 #20252025-03-25T01:50:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/23/life-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_21edaf82-8683-4a1c-a20c-d6f16bfca045.jpgimage_21edaf82-8683-4a1c-a20c-d6f16bfca045Life Unforgettable: / life in a million places, / in a million ways. . . #life #unforgettable #million #places #ways #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #sunday #032325 #20252025-03-23T19:40:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/22/lurch/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_f3c00a69-d1f9-4234-9a39-af8c3428da08.jpgimage_f3c00a69-d1f9-4234-9a39-af8c3428da08Lurch March morning lurch, / mockingbird struggles to perch. / Sun from sky emerges. . . #lurch #perch #emerges #mockingbird #sun #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #saturday #032325 #20252025-03-23T03:56:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/22/clouds-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_74db3d21-7282-4a4d-8a15-9a6389fa670a.jpgimage_74db3d21-7282-4a4d-8a15-9a6389fa670aClouds Each cloud a thought: / bright, dark, large, small, rain or shade. / I wave good-bye. . . #cloud #thought #good-bye #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #tuesday #032123 #2023 #haiga2025-03-23T01:18:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/22/crossroads-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_5d99a48b-f0c0-4786-b63f-99e85e270f42.jpgimage_5d99a48b-f0c0-4786-b63f-99e85e270f42Crossroads At the crossroads / crowds and opinions vary, / even when alone. . . #crossroads #crowds #opinions #alone #vary #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #thursday #2023 #030923 #haiga2025-03-22T17:24:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/21/photo-finish-friday-march-moon-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_a06a8e3e-66f0-4639-aeb0-954bd6254f5e.jpgimage_a06a8e3e-66f0-4639-aeb0-954bd6254f5eMarch Moon March morning Moon slips away from full too soon, fades in sunlight’s boon. . . #March #moon #morning #sunlight #soon #boon #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #friday #032125 #20252025-03-21T22:55:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/21/photo-finish-friday-march-moon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_5d852685-9b58-465c-952d-aa8a8c47da99.jpgimage_5d852685-9b58-465c-952d-aa8a8c47da99March Moon March morning Moon slips away from full too soon, fades in sunlight’s boon. . . #March #moon #morning #sunlight #soon #boon #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #friday #032125 #20252025-03-21T20:47:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/19/present/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_eb546955-8ba4-431e-8b1d-5dfd235750ad.jpgimage_eb546955-8ba4-431e-8b1d-5dfd235750adPresent Wrapped or unwrapped, / the present is all you have: / your gift to you. . . #present #moon #bird #wrapped #unwrapped #you #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #wednesday #031925 #031323t #20252025-03-20T03:35:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/18/grins/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_3b964e50-7c6f-445e-8570-9eae98a57089.jpgimage_3b964e50-7c6f-445e-8570-9eae98a57089Grins Tabby cat grins. / Sunlight weaves through the March trees. / Warmth shakes off its coat. . . #cat #grins #sunlight #trees #March #warmth #coat #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #tuesday #021825 #20252025-03-19T03:33:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/17/our-rain/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_1ec26d65-9f47-43a3-8a9f-14e85bddaecc.jpgimage_1ec26d65-9f47-43a3-8a9f-14e85bddaeccOur rain Our rain is coming. / We fill it with sighs or fear, / but we must greet it. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #our #rain #sighs #fear #greet #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #monday #031625 #2025 #031823t2025-03-18T05:21:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/16/eclipse-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_e5655694-bcfa-402a-8aec-77defba70e4a.jpgimage_e5655694-bcfa-402a-8aec-77defba70e4aEclipse Absence of light / beauty born through negative / into stark contrast. . . #031625 #2025 #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #eclipse #beauty #negative #contrast #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #sunday2025-03-17T01:34:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/15/uncanny/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_9eba2669-ae95-435a-935a-54a29e655131.jpgimage_9eba2669-ae95-435a-935a-54a29e655131Uncanny Uncanny valley. / Each age comes empty / then fills with memory. . . #uncanny #valley #age #empty #fills #memory #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #eclipse #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #saturday #031525 #20252025-03-16T02:26:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/14/photo-finish-friday-eclipse/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_85a911b1-2e82-47ad-9cf3-48deb83bf8ad.jpgimage_85a911b1-2e82-47ad-9cf3-48deb83bf8adEclipse Earth’s shadow eats Moon. / Two amateur astronomers / eat seeds instead. . . #eclipse #amateur #astronomers #moon #earth #seeds #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #march #friday #031425 #20252025-03-14T18:32:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/13/haiku-to-you-thursday-age/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_692d5307-b70d-4052-b8d3-bb0021f0a51f.jpgimage_692d5307-b70d-4052-b8d3-bb0021f0a51fAge Age is a crap shoot. / Some days, the royal flush. / Other days, flushed out. . . #age #royalflush #crapshoot #flushed #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #humor #puns #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #thursday #031325 #20252025-03-14T08:44:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/12/vision/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_2eda60a3-8ca0-4d44-8fbe-a459c4f54aa5.jpgimage_2eda60a3-8ca0-4d44-8fbe-a459c4f54aa5Vision See the world within. / The sun and window are one. / All that shines is you. . . #vision #sun #window #you #shines #world #031213t #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #wednesday #031225 #20252025-03-13T03:25:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/11/march-night/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_d59d876b-7400-41e3-a7f9-41581978b9fa.jpgimage_d59d876b-7400-41e3-a7f9-41581978b9faMarch night At the small limb’s end / the March night beholds the light / of Sun to Moon to Earth. . . #march #night #limb #light #sun #moon #earth #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #tuesday #030917p #031125 #20252025-03-11T04:13:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/10/pastel-sky/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_69c54f8c-6b81-4459-89e6-0443d2883f0f.jpgimage_69c54f8c-6b81-4459-89e6-0443d2883f0fPastel sky Pastel evening sky / swirls with faded hope for more / than a patchwork night. . . #pastel #evening #sky #hope #patchwork #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #monday #030424p #031025 #20252025-03-10T04:31:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/09/mountain-kiss/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image.pngimage2025-03-09T18:05:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/07/photo-finish-friday-twilight/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_4f9dd802-dc08-40d6-af8b-275e22c82128.jpgimage_4f9dd802-dc08-40d6-af8b-275e22c82128Twilight Sunlight and twilight / end of day into night. / Cars and hope delight. . . #twilight #sunlight #day #night #cars #hope #delight #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #march #friday #030725 #20252025-03-09T04:47:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/08/wings-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_2f904fbc-ef46-457f-a510-ebd90db280da.jpgimage_2f904fbc-ef46-457f-a510-ebd90db280daWings Melting or hardened, / Icarus learned too late: / “Wings will weigh me down.” . . #wings #late #icarus #learned #weigh #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #emporium #march #saturday #030825 #20252025-03-09T04:21:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/04/kindness-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_6bd952ec-8256-40d0-81b2-c4be94411748.jpgimage_6bd952ec-8256-40d0-81b2-c4be94411748Kindness Kindness flowers — / even in winter’s depths — / in full scent and bloom. . . #kindness #bloom #scent #winter #flowers #haiku #photo #poem #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #tuesday #030425 #20252025-03-05T03:34:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/03/my-cat/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_e1cede74-fce8-48e0-9886-06b02d5646f3.jpgimage_e1cede74-fce8-48e0-9886-06b02d5646f3My cat Even as the world grows / odd, my old cat still purrs and / demands his dinner. . . #cat #world #purrs #dinner #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #talltalestogo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #march #monday #030325 #20252025-03-04T03:40:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/02/phantom/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_9347ef83-85a4-491f-9eae-9f982ef5b710.jpgimage_9347ef83-85a4-491f-9eae-9f982ef5b710Phantom Evening phantom / flows over each rural hill. / Blood red sun soon black. . . #phantom #rural #hills #sun #black #blood #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #ruralgeorgia #davidebooker #march #sunday #030225 #022625p #0302252025-03-03T04:55:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/03/01/sunset-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image_c24ff6df-9d03-4d32-b2b6-2174f1c90718.jpgimage_c24ff6df-9d03-4d32-b2b6-2174f1c90718Sunset Crimson at sunset. / Cardinal pauses to drink. / Day shadows its end. . . #sunset #cardinal #shadows #crimson #day #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #february #friday #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #030125 #20252025-03-02T03:29:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/27/haiku-to-you-thursday-wit/2025-02-28T04:16:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/26/to-pluck-is/2025-02-27T02:16:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/25/grasp-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_862581ae-fa10-48c3-b5d2-8247b3870401.jpgimage_862581ae-fa10-48c3-b5d2-8247b3870401Spring in February. Cocuses and daffodils. Purple and yellow. #022418 Grasp Oppressing hands grasp / through fear and not respect. / Blooms still share beauty. . . #davidebooker #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #writing #writer #poet #grasp #fear #blooms #beauty #hands #february #monday #022418p #022525 #20252025-02-25T07:19:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/25/veining-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image.pngimage2025-02-25T07:13:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/25/grasp-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_997d140f-bece-4089-9b2e-ca233bc7b191.jpgimage_997d140f-bece-4089-9b2e-ca233bc7b191Spring in February. Cocuses and daffodils. Purple and yellow. #022418 Grasp Oppressing hands grasp / through fear and not respect. / Blooms still share beauty. . . #davidebooker #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #writing #writer #poet #grasp #fear #blooms #beauty #hands #february #monday #022418p #022525 #20252025-02-25T05:32:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/23/fidgety/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_f5d62e96-a076-4f9e-925e-b56b1c54742c.jpgimage_f5d62e96-a076-4f9e-925e-b56b1c54742cFidgety In my pajamas, fidgety beneath the moon. Both of us are full. . . #fidgety #pajamas #moon #full #both #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #Sunday #011225p #022325 #20252025-02-24T02:48:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/22/waves-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_1ad49709-9a71-4ca2-8221-2c56fb772064.jpgimage_1ad49709-9a71-4ca2-8221-2c56fb772064Waves Waves in the water, / waves in the sky, waves hello, / and waves goodbye. . . #waves #hello #water #sky #goodbye #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #monday #022023 #2023 #haiga2025-02-23T02:56:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/21/image/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_25d05c8e-c049-45a1-98d5-53a054016816.jpgimage_25d05c8e-c049-45a1-98d5-53a054016816Image Vine, bent by ice, / image of a leaf still green, / cold unbent by light. . . #image #light #cold #leaf #vine #haiku #poem #poet #poetry #haiga #photo #february #friday #022125 #20252025-02-22T04:59:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/19/four-swans/2025-02-20T01:01:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/18/flag/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_1fcb8ff6-c0fb-4899-b9c3-61be390f466e.jpgimage_1fcb8ff6-c0fb-4899-b9c3-61be390f466eFlag Shinning in the sun, / lifted by a light wind, / may it still hold hope. . . #flag #sun #wind #hope #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #february #tuesday #021825 #20252025-02-19T04:44:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/17/mercy/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_afb7c701-738f-47f2-9853-e4858b9178e8.jpgimage_afb7c701-738f-47f2-9853-e4858b9178e8Mercy Prepare for the winds. / Flowers are at their mercy. / Beauty is no defense. . . #mercy #beauty #defense #winds #flowers #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #sunday #021623t #021625 #20252025-02-17T05:06:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/16/cup/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_fd6548df-b81f-4c43-9cb9-966d22faa67a.jpgimage_fd6548df-b81f-4c43-9cb9-966d22faa67aCup Rain fills the footsteps. / Water fills the gray days / and molds winter’s cup. . . #cup #rain #footsteps #winter #days #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #saturday #021525 #20252025-02-16T05:01:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/15/valentines-day-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_5308f7a4-1409-4a40-857f-4cdda2edf888.jpgimage_5308f7a4-1409-4a40-857f-4cdda2edf888Valentine’s Day On Valentine’s Day, / the sun shines on Beth’s table / and memories dine. . . #memories #dine #beth #table #vakentinesday #senryu #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #february #monday #021422 #2022 #haiga2025-02-15T05:02:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/13/haiku-to-you-thursday-rain-3/2025-02-13T23:51:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/12/to-fly-free-in-space/2025-02-13T03:24:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/09/last-light/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_3871022c-552a-4cf5-a0cd-f5a9af0d0574.jpgimage_3871022c-552a-4cf5-a0cd-f5a9af0d0574Last light The sun recedes. / The nearly full moon gives chase. / The clouds hold last light. . . #last #light #moon #sun #clouds #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #sunday #020925 #20252025-02-09T05:52:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/07/photo-finish-friday-rusted-heart/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_39d5b869-762e-44b6-bae6-62df8f82fab1.jpgimage_39d5b869-762e-44b6-bae6-62df8f82fab1Rusted heart Tin man rusted his heart, / not in Emerald City, but / behind fallen eyes. . . #rusted #heart #emeraldcity #eyes #tinman #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #friday #020725 #20252025-02-08T03:40:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/06/new-hope-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_c0688509-48e8-4aa1-a1fc-9e70704fda28.jpgimage_c0688509-48e8-4aa1-a1fc-9e70704fda28New hope February jonquils, / early yellow among brown, / herald spring’s new hope. . . #hope #february #jonquils #herald #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #thursday #020625 #20252025-02-07T04:27:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/06/flap-jack/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_f5fcb540-ea55-4018-8b3e-6688f3d88623.jpgimage_f5fcb540-ea55-4018-8b3e-6688f3d88623Flap Jack There once was a pancake bed, Soft as anything said. I laid down for a nap. Woke up as a flap, Filled suddenly with syrup and dread. Kafka! I cried from my sleep. He appeared and began to weep. Then with his fork, He made his first stroke And I felt my syrup drip and seep. . . #020625 #2025 #poem #poetry #pancake #kafka #syrup #weep #davidebooker #february #thursday #humor2025-02-07T03:46:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/05/setting-sun/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_3caf2ad6-3bb1-4532-a7e4-3580ad7448ce.jpgimage_3caf2ad6-3bb1-4532-a7e4-3580ad7448ceSetting sun Tabby cat sits in / the setting sun’s amber glow / and parade of leaves. . . #setting sun #cat #leaves #parade #glow #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #wednesday #020525 #20252025-02-06T04:48:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/04/silhouette-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_3bbfa15b-fef0-45b3-a4a3-28db8d20d31a.jpgimage_3bbfa15b-fef0-45b3-a4a3-28db8d20d31aSilhouette Bare limbs silhouette before a fiery dusk sky. The sun hies to night. . . #silhouette #limbs #sky #sun #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #tuesday #020425 #20252025-02-05T04:50:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/03/touch/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_d3a91810-8843-48a8-b88b-191144799938.jpgimage_d3a91810-8843-48a8-b88b-191144799938Touch Not so long ago, / morning light saw frosted leaves / holding winter’s touch. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #062525p #touch #winter #leaves #frosted #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #monday #020325 #20252025-02-04T04:54:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/03/the-maltese-falcon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_cea1e5d7-07b0-46c5-9178-9346611a176c.jpgimage_cea1e5d7-07b0-46c5-9178-9346611a176cDashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON was first published by Alfred A. Knopf on this day in 1930. "Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down-from high flat temples-in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blonde Satan." --from THE MALTESE FALCON A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett’s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers. … The dead partner in this story "comes alive" as the main character of another detective series.2025-02-04T03:02:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/01/alley/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_d613027f-1844-4dcc-b44d-5cf802165565.jpgimage_d613027f-1844-4dcc-b44d-5cf802165565Alley Sunlight and shadows / bare trees and winter dreams / weave through the alley. . . #alley #dreams #winter #shadows #trees #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #sunlight #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #saturday #020125 #20252025-02-02T04:54:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/02/01/failure-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image_f06f3cf1-6347-4c9d-acb9-7b814883282a.jpgimage_f06f3cf1-6347-4c9d-acb9-7b814883282aFailure Is their poetry / in failure? Bleak winter sun / pockets its promise. . . #poetry #bleak #winter #sun #failure #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #january #012822 #2022 #haiga2025-02-02T00:31:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/31/photo-finish-friday-play/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_965bab6e-960d-4fe6-a73d-0a1df020448d.jpgimage_965bab6e-960d-4fe6-a73d-0a1df020448dPlay Light and shadow and the morning at play beneath the rising sun. . . #play #light #shadow #morning #sun #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #friday #013125 #20252025-02-01T04:58:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/30/haiku-to-you-thursday-practice/2025-01-31T04:54:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/29/frost-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_41109e73-e30c-4754-abfa-7bb2b8e58f2e.jpgimage_41109e73-e30c-4754-abfa-7bb2b8e58f2eFrost Dressed in ice, frost dances at the edge of abandoned leaves. . . #frost #leaves #ice #dances #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #wednesday #013025 #20252025-01-30T04:44:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/27/possum/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_6ae56f4d-48f6-4bbc-9468-fa692d79afe2.jpgimage_6ae56f4d-48f6-4bbc-9468-fa692d79afe2Possum One winter’s night / a dish rattles; a possum / scavenges cat food. . . #possum #scavenge #winter #night #dish #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #monday #012825 #20252025-01-28T04:41:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/26/rattle/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_fc148cfa-51e0-4692-b1fa-b16488ca0048.jpgimage_fc148cfa-51e0-4692-b1fa-b16488ca0048Rattle Clouds as spare change / rattling in a gray pocket. / Life is cold within. . . #rattling #spare #change #pocket #clouds #life #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #sunday #012625 #20252025-01-27T00:53:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/25/mockingbird/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_0194ebe0-8738-44bd-aab6-ced75fd07028.jpgimage_0194ebe0-8738-44bd-aab6-ced75fd07028Mockingbird A mockingbird paused / to quench a thirst and I paused / to fill a memory. . . #mockingbird #thirst #paused #memory #I #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #012525 #20252025-01-26T04:40:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/24/goodbye-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_01c126f1-4923-4ae9-b536-7ef38a34de2a.jpgimage_01c126f1-4923-4ae9-b536-7ef38a34de2aGoodbye (from 2022) Footsteps here and gone. / What you hold you someday lose. / What you embrace stays. . . #footprints #hold #embrace #gone #lasts #haiku #poem #poetry #goodbye #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #sunday #012322 #20222025-01-25T02:12:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/24/eye-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_a9bc9e2b-a8a5-4e41-b3a0-9e858c39bfec.jpgimage_a9bc9e2b-a8a5-4e41-b3a0-9e858c39bfecEye Upward bound, birds / fly through the gray winter sky, / under an eye of blue. . . #birds #sky #winter #upward #under #gray #blue #eye #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #tuesday #012423 #2023 #haiga2025-01-25T00:56:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/23/haiku-to-you-thursday-tableau/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_687ab0b9-a6dd-4092-ba10-26d4b1be6bba.jpgimage_687ab0b9-a6dd-4092-ba10-26d4b1be6bbaTableau Three years on, / old leaves frozen in ice, / memories linger. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #tableau #memories #leaves #linger #ice #haiga #photo #january #thursday #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #012325 #20252025-01-24T04:38:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/23/some-days-i-say-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_24366aa2-0980-4727-ae8b-a3aec7d2436c.jpgimage_24366aa2-0980-4727-ae8b-a3aec7d2436cSome days I say by David E. Booker I stop on a bridge to admire the ragged setting sun. Clouded by days of rain and a night of snow, like me, it was recovering. A car passes and college voices taunt me: “Jump!” Then a pickup truck and an old, lone voice: “Jump, motherfucker!” and a cigarette butt bounces off my shoulder. What touches the body touches the mind and what touches the mind touches the world. I was ill and then I saw illness. Some days I say, “Stop the madness.” Then I realize I am the madness… …of one glorious sunset and a thousand broken souls: admirer of one, curse of the other, and my heart is often not large enough for either one. . . #poem #poetry #some #days #davidebooker #2013 #0119132025-01-24T03:19:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/23/remembrance-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_c7efff48-ef88-4b2e-8d35-e7b5f1438bdc.jpgimage_c7efff48-ef88-4b2e-8d35-e7b5f1438bdcRemembrance When you reach the end / there’s a sign. Not an exit, / but in remembrance. . . #remembrance #end #sign #noexit #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #friday #2022 #012122 #haiga2025-01-24T01:35:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/22/shattered/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_e43f9f97-3b0f-4e05-86e1-758b38235143.jpgimage_e43f9f97-3b0f-4e05-86e1-758b38235143Shattered Shattered, scattered ice — / unmade bed for a seed head. / Cold a harsh blanket. . . #shattered #scattered #ice #seeds #cold #blanket #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #january #wednesday #012225 #20252025-01-23T04:00:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/21/ghost-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_5ea934e8-a1e7-4547-abc2-6cb9f534562c.jpgimage_5ea934e8-a1e7-4547-abc2-6cb9f534562cGhost A ghost of summer, / a coneflower in winter, / brittle stalk and day. . . #ghost #coneflower #summer #winter #stalk #day #haiga #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #photo #davidebooker #january #thursday #011824 #20242025-01-21T05:10:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/20/thieves-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_0afed26e-e61f-4894-9e4a-b1dfcd4cc7e1.jpgimage_0afed26e-e61f-4894-9e4a-b1dfcd4cc7e1Thieves Snatching peanuts, / two blue jays gather quickly, / and then flee like thieves. . . #gather #peanuts #bluejays #thieves #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #monday #012025 #20252025-01-21T03:13:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/19/seeds-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_b6c438e5-3589-4e2f-b51d-b1d1d7ec0ad8.jpgimage_b6c438e5-3589-4e2f-b51d-b1d1d7ec0ad8Seeds Cardinals and seeds, / snow slipping from the sky, / sparrows wait their turn. . . #seeds #cardinals #snow #sparrows #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #sunday #012025 #20252025-01-20T04:58:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/19/sitting-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_b078ba49-40a5-4dd0-a89a-238d4652cd76.jpgimage_b078ba49-40a5-4dd0-a89a-238d4652cd76Sitting Snow sits in your chair, / surveys your sleeping garden, / Sad it will miss spring. . . #snow #garden #sad #winter #spring #sitting #sleeping #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #tuesday #2022 #011822 #haiga2025-01-19T22:10:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/18/first-bread/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_e8db881b-3984-43f8-9ce6-773dab902f0b.jpgimage_e8db881b-3984-43f8-9ce6-773dab902f0bFirst bread First bread of the year. / Homemade and warm, apples sliced / and groomed with sugars. . . #first #bread #homemade #apples #warm #sugars #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #011825 #20252025-01-19T03:56:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/17/looking-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_4cec682b-be7f-4a32-bd49-8a1b327da67b.jpgimage_4cec682b-be7f-4a32-bd49-8a1b327da67bLooking Looking backward / No one remembers the rain / Only the hammers. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #january #2019 #thursday #rain #hammer #davidebooker #remember #backward #looking #011719 #haiga2025-01-18T00:00:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/17/embrace-9/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_4895e292-74bf-4ccf-a3a5-580e14fa6645.jpgimage_4895e292-74bf-4ccf-a3a5-580e14fa6645Embrace Still sat the squirrel. / Unmoved stood the metal man. / Winter embraced both. . . #embrace #squirrel #man #winter #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #friday #011725 #20252025-01-17T05:09:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/13/sentinels-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_c1f16993-abbb-47e6-87be-de774edfd425.jpgimage_c1f16993-abbb-47e6-87be-de774edfd425Sentinels Submerged under ice / sentinels of the past spring / hold tomorrow’s seeds. . . #sentinels #seeds #ice #submerged #ice #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #monday #011325 #20252025-01-14T04:55:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/13/swans-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_02ec4e57-6712-4a49-b590-3371b4d097a7.jpgimage_02ec4e57-6712-4a49-b590-3371b4d097a7Swans Four swans in the snow: / stone stiff, nowhere to go. / Spring soon? Sun rides low. . . #swans #sun #low #stone #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #011125 #20252025-01-13T16:49:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/12/moon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_81e33d3b-c85c-4f2c-875d-ba8d8db024d4.jpgimage_81e33d3b-c85c-4f2c-875d-ba8d8db024d4Moon Bare winter branches, / full moon weaves between them, / skyward into night. . . #moon #skyward #winter #branches #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #sunday #021225 #20252025-01-13T02:58:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/12/swans-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_8099d1e9-3f4f-4ccc-a5bc-470ee8eb9bd5.jpgimage_8099d1e9-3f4f-4ccc-a5bc-470ee8eb9bd5Swans Four swans in the snow: / stone stiff, nowhere to go. / Spring soon? Sun rides low. . . #swans #sun #low #stone #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #011125 #20252025-01-12T05:18:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/11/swans/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_9ec99348-ada9-4462-a341-67f59172b9a7.jpgimage_9ec99348-ada9-4462-a341-67f59172b9a7Swans Four swans in the snow: / stone stiff, nowhere to go. / Spring soon? Sun rides low. . . #swans #sun #low #stone #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #011125 #20252025-01-12T05:14:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/09/haiku-to-you-thursday-tea-kettle-2/2025-01-10T04:28:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/07/ripples/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_4029b479-fd57-4bee-abdd-5ee965d7c9d0.jpgimage_4029b479-fd57-4bee-abdd-5ee965d7c9d0Ripples Each drink a ripple. / Each ripple a crest in time / caused by a cat’s tongue. . . #ripples #tongue #crest #drink #time #cat #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #tuesday #010725 #20252025-01-08T08:39:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/06/embrace-8/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_30b0e2c4-3c42-4085-aa8e-316bc0a91fc4.jpgimage_30b0e2c4-3c42-4085-aa8e-316bc0a91fc4Embrace Coated by frozen rain, / holly berries and leaves dress / for winter’s embrace. . . #embrace #holly #winter #berries #leaves #frozen #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #monday #010625 #20252025-01-06T05:49:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/04/cancer/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_c993c12e-8587-4a95-a2bd-c828cf1706b8.jpgimage_c993c12e-8587-4a95-a2bd-c828cf1706b8Cancer Cancer is Winter: / Hard on the outer shell / Opens inner seeds. . . #haiku #january #2019 #poem #poetry #writing #writer #cancer #winter #shell #seeds #quilt #inner #outer #haiga #010319 #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #robertajones2025-01-04T10:09:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/04/openings/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_7026d8d8-3bb0-404b-954e-7d253c2104c8.jpgimage_7026d8d8-3bb0-404b-954e-7d253c2104c8Openings Holes and promises, openings undone until fulfilled. . . #openings #holes #promises #undone #fulfilled #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #friday #010325 #20252025-01-04T10:07:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/02/the-old-man/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_dcce20a5-acbc-4c05-9497-f3fae6d2c3a6.jpgimage_dcce20a5-acbc-4c05-9497-f3fae6d2c3a6The Old Man There was an old man who lived in a sign. / His wife wouldn’t join him because she wouldn’t cosine. / Now she lives adjacent to an empty hypotenuse. / Her life a tangent somewhat on the loose. . . #010225 #2025 #old #man #wife #sign #cosine #tangent #hypotenuse #poem #poetry #humor #davidebooker #photo #january #thursday2025-01-03T04:57:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2025/01/01/winter-laughs/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image_b54474bd-a76a-4fda-834c-214b6a48eb9e.jpgimage_b54474bd-a76a-4fda-834c-214b6a48eb9eWinter Laughs The New Year arrives Old Man Winter has a laugh His cold strokes your hopes. . . #winter #laughs #newyear #oldmanwinter #cold #hopes #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #010113t #010125p #january #wednesday #20252025-01-02T05:12:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/31/new-years-eve-2019-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_74e15e37-aae1-4efa-885d-062a7fb59c37.jpgimage_74e15e37-aae1-4efa-885d-062a7fb59c37New Year’s Eve 2019 Tomorrow somewhere / a New Year has begun. Here / the old treatments linger. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #cancer #writing #writer #davidebooker #newyear #treatment #linger #tomorrow #knoxville #tennessee #thompsoncancersurvivalcenter #tuesday #2019 #123119 # haiga2025-01-01T04:55:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/31/the-husk/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_ae56d0f0-b339-44da-9733-0888296a18c7.jpgimage_ae56d0f0-b339-44da-9733-0888296a18c7The husk In ten billion years / the sun will be a cold husk / The sunflower’s cold now. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #sun #sunflower #husk #photooftheday #snow #cold #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #knoxville #tennessee #december #thursday #2020 #haiga #1231202025-01-01T02:54:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/31/shuffle/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_3f82431b-db5f-4eea-9014-c839046438b7.jpgimage_3f82431b-db5f-4eea-9014-c839046438b7curtain of icicles / drape in front of my window. / Curtain of Ragged winter ends / drape in front of my window, / cold icicle curtain.2024-12-31T19:42:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/31/falling-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_10b510de-7faf-4720-ad9c-7d6cdee2cd28.jpgimage_10b510de-7faf-4720-ad9c-7d6cdee2cd28Falling Shadows play with clouds; / the sun descends as if / falling through a dream. . . #shadows #clouds #play #sun #dream #falling #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #tuesday #123124 #20242024-12-31T12:07:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/30/memories-and-seeds/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_807ac9ae-eabd-4490-b075-09a7931c9b92.jpgimage_807ac9ae-eabd-4490-b075-09a7931c9b92Memories and seeds Snow becomes the past. / Seeds wait, memories to come. / Seasons step around. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #davidebooker #photooftheday #seeds #snow #memories #seasons #past #oldnorthknoxville #december #knoxville #tennessee #tuesday #2020 #122920 #haiga2024-12-30T06:09:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/29/bare-branches/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_a5d58029-a90d-4237-9e73-8355ff42f87e.jpgimage_a5d58029-a90d-4237-9e73-8355ff42f87eBare branches Broken by the dawn, / the sun weaves from behind clouds / and through bare branches. . . #bare #branches #clouds #dawn #sun #weaves #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #daivebooker #december #sunday #122924 #20242024-12-30T03:02:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/29/holding-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_fb02f78e-803a-4a60-9f59-29fc4761a0f8.jpgimage_fb02f78e-803a-4a60-9f59-29fc4761a0f8Holding Winter evening hues / paint the troubled sky at dusk / dark into night. . . #dark #dusk #winter #hues #evening #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #december #tuesday #122821 #2021 #haiga2024-12-29T05:04:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/28/clatter/2024-12-29T04:53:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/26/haiku-to-you-thursday-popcorn-balls/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_63960391-e82c-40a5-a9aa-789454ff6c94.jpgimage_63960391-e82c-40a5-a9aa-789454ff6c94Popcorn balls Singed fingertips shape / hot syrup and sugar round / Christmas memories. . . #shape #christmas #memories #fingertips #syrup #sugar #haiku #poem #poetry #popcornballs #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #thursday #122624 #20242024-12-27T05:03:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/25/day/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_37419b3d-bf8b-4cb8-b219-616cc78519c1.jpgimage_37419b3d-bf8b-4cb8-b219-616cc78519c1Day Last for a day — / Sun brightens until night. / Moon just in phases. . . #day #sun #moon #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #December #wednesday #122524 #20242024-12-26T04:26:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/25/peace-and-brightness/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_233ae8cf-39ad-449f-a500-2f42da138897.jpgimage_233ae8cf-39ad-449f-a500-2f42da138897Peace and brightness May peace and brightness / shine within you, guide you, / now and forever. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #peace #brightness #photooftheday #holiday #december #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #thursday #2020 #haiga #1224202024-12-26T03:04:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/23/one-day/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_8e5e4065-2350-4dd3-8123-aec6fc13d891.jpgimage_8e5e4065-2350-4dd3-8123-aec6fc13d891One day One day, we may see / its beauty again when we / trust our flag to be. . . #one #day #beauty #we #trust #flag #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #monday #122324 #20242024-12-24T03:40:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/22/shadows-and-light/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_983a0db8-3bfd-49f6-a6e8-ef7611e2af76.jpgimage_983a0db8-3bfd-49f6-a6e8-ef7611e2af76Shadows and light Shadows and light — / glimpses of you in winter — / some crisp, some twisted. . . #shadows #light #glimpses #you #winter #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #senryu #davidebooker #december #sunday #122224 #20242024-12-23T05:59:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/19/haiku-to-you-thursday-reflect/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_667abb36-196e-43db-9292-9850a7c54c69.jpgimage_667abb36-196e-43db-9292-9850a7c54c69Reflect The world, in beauty and in form, reflects in your heart. . . #form #beauty #world #heart #reflect #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #thursday #121924 #20242024-12-21T05:18:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/20/photo-finish-friday-filter-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/471416187_18484206670015057_519898541201577827_n.jpg471416187_18484206670015057_519898541201577827_n2024-12-21T05:15:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/18/silhouette-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_1f23261f-a534-4097-a71c-d380f2a83f25.jpgimage_1f23261f-a534-4097-a71c-d380f2a83f25Silhouette Bare tree, empty house: / silhouetted by the setting sun, / undressed by evening. . . #tree #house #bare #empty #silhouette #sun #undressed #evening #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #sunday #121822 #2022 #haiga2024-12-19T04:32:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/18/abandoned/2024-12-18T06:35:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/15/fainting-tree/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_675c5807-4dbc-4fb3-a7bd-b3dac9914eb8.jpgimage_675c5807-4dbc-4fb3-a7bd-b3dac9914eb8Fainting tree Oh, those fainting Christmas trees. They are a sight to see, Can’t be left alone, can’t be. You went to spread some cheer, So let me be clear, It wasn’t me here, It was the cat. Like the serpent in the tree, She tempted me And now you see Where we’re at. She challenged me, Said I couldn’t be free, That there would be No Christmas present for me Unless I ran around the tree And that’s when it went ker-splat. It fainted dead away. I don’t know what to say. It fainted that way. The power cord’s now frayed. Yes, it happened today. I blame the cat. Yes, sparks flew, There was a spark or two, Arcing a translucent blue, Singed the cat through and through. No, I don’t know where she’s at. So, those fainting Christmas trees, Looks like they just can’t be Left unattended, you see. I think we can right the tree, Set it up to be Fully faint free With no cat calamity Without the cat. . . #121221 #poem #christmas #dog #cat #davidebooker #humor #meme #20212024-12-16T02:00:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/15/morning-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_212bb746-b3f3-470b-940c-5b01c309796b.jpgimage_212bb746-b3f3-470b-940c-5b01c309796bMorning Comb up, seed in beak, / cardinal greets the day. / Sun and feathers bright. . . #morning #comb #beak #sun #feathers #cardinals #day #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #sunday #121524 #20242024-12-15T05:58:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/14/night-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_f5440bcd-1d9b-4c8e-862e-6e6f266d9c5f.jpgimage_f5440bcd-1d9b-4c8e-862e-6e6f266d9c5fNight The weak sun declines. / Street lights and windows seek hope. / The night sky ascends… . . #night #windows #sun #lights #street #sky #night #hope #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #saturday #121424 #20242025-04-07T02:42:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/12/first-snow/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_3aae0f0c-af7c-42c4-9e1a-fd92c218f4d0.jpgimage_3aae0f0c-af7c-42c4-9e1a-fd92c218f4d0First snow First snow of winter / touches the heart long before / touching the cold ground. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writer #writing #snow #winter #heart #ground #heart #haiga #photo #121218 #davidebooker #20182024-12-13T04:56:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/12/haiku-to-you-thursday-always/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_6b8bfe0b-365c-42d9-8df4-27499a0d9bfe.jpgimage_6b8bfe0b-365c-42d9-8df4-27499a0d9bfeAlways The Moon: always there. / Mistress and companion. / Formed from the Earth’s rib. . . #always #moon #mistress #companion #rib #haiku #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #thursday #121224 #20242024-12-13T04:35:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/10/quilt-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_54864e71-ad2e-451a-a239-6d14784f2f62.jpgimage_54864e71-ad2e-451a-a239-6d14784f2f62Quilt Many leaves descend, / making of the Earth a quilt, / as if preparing. . . #quilt #leaves #earth #descend #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #tuesday #121024 #20242024-12-11T03:20:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/09/tour/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_af01cf4c-f41e-4ebc-9eb8-b04f7a2e25ae.jpgimage_af01cf4c-f41e-4ebc-9eb8-b04f7a2e25aeTour The tour is over, / but the memories remain. / The toy solider smiles. . . #tour #solider #smiles #memory #remains #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #monday #121024 #20242024-12-10T04:33:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/08/embrace-7/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_8cc2a04b-b902-4d76-9a7b-756ad11d7fa2.jpgimage_8cc2a04b-b902-4d76-9a7b-756ad11d7fa2Embrace Embraced by ice, oak leaf rides the frozen waves. Light shimmers and waits. . . #embrace #ice #oak #leaf #waves #light #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #sunday #120824 #20242024-12-09T04:58:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/07/christmas-lights/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_41febaf0-c102-48a2-8f39-a75699bfdc68.jpgimage_41febaf0-c102-48a2-8f39-a75699bfdc68Christmas lights House, dressed in white lights, / whispers to the fading sun: / return to me. . . #lights #christmas #sun #whisper #return #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #saturday #120724 #20242024-12-08T07:40:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/06/photo-finish-friday-night-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_8b0901a9-0574-4f2d-859b-4062c20fa98b.jpgimage_8b0901a9-0574-4f2d-859b-4062c20fa98bNight Cold, crisp, brittle night. / Clouds left with the light and wind, / bundled in small warmth. . . #night #clouds #light #wind #bundled #warmth #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #friday #120624 #20242024-12-07T04:52:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/04/whisper-8/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_199b2aff-e56c-4aac-b103-54a4ea14b9c3.jpgimage_199b2aff-e56c-4aac-b103-54a4ea14b9c3Whisper On a cold night, hot cocoa and eggnog bread. Memories whisper. . . #whisper #memories #night #cocoa #bread #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #wednesday #120524 #20242024-12-05T04:23:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/03/memory-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_fa3264b3-490b-46a7-90bd-676f9ec9b544.jpgimage_fa3264b3-490b-46a7-90bd-676f9ec9b544Memory Last night’s rain lingers, / each drop a short memory / left on dying leaves. . . #memory #rain #night #leaves #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #saturday #120322 #2022 #haiga2024-12-04T04:35:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/03/zen/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_5707e7dc-80f1-4f5f-a080-23fe3b69b8db.jpgimage_5707e7dc-80f1-4f5f-a080-23fe3b69b8dbZen Zen comes to breakfast, / debating all as she chews. / Truth is the next bite. . . #zen #breakfast #debates #chews #truth #bite #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #tuesday #120324 #20242024-12-04T02:52:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/12/01/winter/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/image_b57f888c-721f-45c6-bf2a-8b3bef00cbd1.jpgimage_b57f888c-721f-45c6-bf2a-8b3bef00cbd1Winter Dusk hung in her mind. / Blood red painted against the sky. / Winter mood unfolds. . . #red #dusk #winter #mood #blood #sky #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #november #dusk #wednesday #2021 #120121 #haiga2024-12-02T04:32:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/30/one-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_ca29a324-b61a-4cf5-baff-ee84a8b0d18f.jpgimage_ca29a324-b61a-4cf5-baff-ee84a8b0d18fOne One cold November / one Blue jay grabs one peanut / one day in winter. . . #one #bluejay #november #peanut #winter #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #saturday #113024 #20242024-11-30T21:13:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/30/feast/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_19bbab2d-97f7-4edc-8387-ce1d820f4e04.jpgimage_19bbab2d-97f7-4edc-8387-ce1d820f4e04Feast Birds flock the railing, / feast on seeds in a cold day. / as the sun fades. . . #feast #birds #flock #sun #seeds #day #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #112924 #20242024-11-30T05:10:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/28/transcendental-pi-2/2024-11-29T00:19:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/27/morning-5/2024-11-28T03:47:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/26/oak-leaf/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_222fbe15-2aad-4c8e-8cc9-27439e9ffc6c.jpgimage_222fbe15-2aad-4c8e-8cc9-27439e9ffc6cOak leaf One brown oak leaf — / among autumn’s many gifts / and cold promises. . . #oak #leaf #promises #autumn #gift #haiga #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #112624 #20242024-11-27T07:29:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/24/shadows-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_bf4c04fc-4032-4640-8532-72cbf707cb91.jpgimage_bf4c04fc-4032-4640-8532-72cbf707cb91Shadows Sharp morning shadows / cut across the waiting world, / palimpsest the dog. . . #shadows #dog #world #palimpsest #morning #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #sunday #112424 #20242024-11-25T04:49:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/24/in-a-moment/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_0052fc26-ad7c-4479-b267-98ddfb287a7d.jpgimage_0052fc26-ad7c-4479-b267-98ddfb287a7dIn a moment Dying autumn leaf, / Whisper now how winter comes: / With love or without? . . #autumn #winter #leaf #whisper #love #nolove #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #moment #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #november #sunday #2021 #112121 #haiga2024-11-25T02:05:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/23/hear/2024-11-23T22:52:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/22/wind-5/2024-11-23T04:20:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/21/haiku-to-you-thursday-beyond/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_5fe6a69a-0c33-42ba-a56d-13199339104e.jpgimage_5fe6a69a-0c33-42ba-a56d-13199339104eBeyond Beyond the autumn, / up, down, around, and about, / dreams and snowflakes curl. . . #beyond #autumn #up #down #around #about #dreams #snowflakes #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #dabidebooker #november #thursday #112124 #20242024-11-22T00:34:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/19/red-dusk/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_ce0f90f3-0bf4-4dda-a954-3d17cdf66842.jpgimage_ce0f90f3-0bf4-4dda-a954-3d17cdf66842Red dusk Resting on the rail, / sandy cat surveys its world / of red dusk dying. . . #red #dusk #dying #world #cat #rail #surveys #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #november #tuesday #111924 #20242024-11-20T04:18:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/17/haiku-2018-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_e8cd27e3-221d-476e-beb8-ce26d8983f5c.jpgimage_e8cd27e3-221d-476e-beb8-ce26d8983f5cHaiku 2018 Bands of bright white rays / Sun peeking through slanted blinds / Beauty shadows light. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #words #photography #light #shadow #beauty #sun #shades #blinds #slats #bands #111718 #haiga #2018 #davidebooker #bethabooker2024-11-18T02:41:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/17/glimpses-of-love-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_cb70c926-dc9b-45c1-8ec2-e56303754739.jpgimage_cb70c926-dc9b-45c1-8ec2-e56303754739Glimpses of love Some things endure fall, thriving on tepid daylight and glimpses of love. . . #glimpses #love #fall #endure #tepid #daylight #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #november #111612t #111724 #20242024-11-17T23:41:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/15/photo-finish-friday-whisper/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_5423bfbf-7b24-4de0-8714-07f17c2294c3.jpgimage_5423bfbf-7b24-4de0-8714-07f17c2294c3Whisper Whisper of the kiss. / Light of the forgiving love. / Where is there good night? . . #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #whisper #kiss #light #love #good #night #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #111524 #20242024-11-16T01:12:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/14/haiku-to-you-thursday-once/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_35561e4c-2f4c-4c07-ba8d-01e4634f15b0.jpgimage_35561e4c-2f4c-4c07-ba8d-01e4634f15b0Once Once upon a tree, / this fallen maple leaf dreamed / a warm summer’s dream. . . #once #maple #leaf #clean #dream #summer #fall #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #thursday #111424 #20242024-11-15T04:46:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/14/fading-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_dc14b637-10d6-47a0-a344-495604ae9d38.jpgimage_dc14b637-10d6-47a0-a344-495604ae9d38Fading A shield to the rain, oak leaf upturned on the street, fading on asphalt. . . #fading #rain #oak #leaf #fading #asphalt #street #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #111423 #2023 #haiga2024-11-15T01:41:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/13/haiku-in-the-fall/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_b5e2a7bb-1520-45ec-88ad-68402db578b5.jpgimage_b5e2a7bb-1520-45ec-88ad-68402db578b5Haiku in the fall Haiku in the fall. / Stripped of ornamentation, / words live sparingly. . . #words #fall #live #haiku #ornamentation #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #november #friday #2021 #111221 #haiga2024-11-14T03:35:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/13/path/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_737d7a67-95b0-49e5-a898-e5486109c8d2.jpgimage_737d7a67-95b0-49e5-a898-e5486109c8d2Path Cat among the leaves; / fall colors upon the ground. / Path to winter near. . . #path #cat #leaves #fall #colors #winter #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #wednesday #111324 #20242024-11-14T01:54:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/11/seeds-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_3278e45e-04d2-415e-b1fa-def69b518462.jpgimage_3278e45e-04d2-415e-b1fa-def69b518462Seeds Seeds before the moon, / autumn leaves dangling like dreams, / perishing tonight. . . #seeds #moon #autumn #leaves #dreams #perishing #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #monday #111124 #20242024-11-13T18:55:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/12/lovers/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_4228a312-596d-4d0b-9655-619e91f1e782.jpgimage_4228a312-596d-4d0b-9655-619e91f1e782Lovers Lovers kiss goodbye. / Red glistens the horizon. / Night and hearts weave dreams. . . #lovers #goodbye #red #horizon #night #hearts #dreams #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #111224 #20242024-11-13T04:03:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/10/curls/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_07eefb4e-e17f-4ac0-a579-86d03637e77b.jpgimage_07eefb4e-e17f-4ac0-a579-86d03637e77bCurls Alone on a plant, / struggling through the shortened days, / a young pepper curls. . . #curls #pepper #plant #days #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #sunday #111024 #20242024-11-11T02:50:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/09/limits/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_e2f4fbc6-390c-4c64-a673-2f2fc2574d30.jpgimage_e2f4fbc6-390c-4c64-a673-2f2fc2574d30Limits Life at the limits / has turned loose its freak show. / Flowers squirt poison. . . #life #limits #freak #show #flowers #poison #knoxville #davidebooker #bookeddy #november #saturday #110924 #20242024-11-09T22:36:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/08/waiting-10/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_c4e8993e-1aa3-4293-bdeb-5581a016aa92.jpgimage_c4e8993e-1aa3-4293-bdeb-5581a016aa92Waiting Waiting your guidance, / possessions are opinions / lacking direction. . . #waiting #guidance #opinions #possessions #direction #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #davidebooker #knoxville #110822 #2022 #haiga2024-11-09T03:55:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/08/photo-finish-friday-steps/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_882e7f6c-b32b-4492-8e98-360acca6a15f.jpgimage_882e7f6c-b32b-4492-8e98-360acca6a15fSteps Success, my dad said, / was often one foot ahead / of the other one. . . #steps #foot #success #dad #ahead #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #knoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #110824 #20242024-11-09T02:28:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/07/haiku-to-you-thursday-scattered/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_0695de77-760f-4600-8ae0-afc2cd90ac30.jpgimage_0695de77-760f-4600-8ae0-afc2cd90ac30Scattered Scattered on the street, / reflected in the car door, / curled oak leaves and light. . . #scattered #street #reflected #door #leaves #light #oak #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #november #thursday #110824 #20242024-11-08T04:41:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/06/on-the-wall/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_81fd04b2-726a-435f-92dd-af7f20f5adf7.jpgimage_81fd04b2-726a-435f-92dd-af7f20f5adf7On the wall The body is gone. / Prison is more than a place. / Hope hangs on the wall. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #photo #prison #brushymountainstatepenitentiary #tennessee #writing #writer #davidebooker #prisoncell #wall #drawing #body #hope #haiga #110619 #20192024-11-07T04:57:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/05/see-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_7dd61a8e-07e4-4cd1-b7be-1c85c0403c34.jpgimage_7dd61a8e-07e4-4cd1-b7be-1c85c0403c34See See the fall evening / reflected in the mirror, / fading with the sun. . . #see #fall #evening #mirror #fading #sun #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #110524 #20242024-11-06T04:54:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/03/seeds/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_d970cb91-230d-413d-a095-309b5f1680d6.jpgimage_d970cb91-230d-413d-a095-309b5f1680d6Seeds Autumn seeds descend. / Winter’s cold underworld. / Spring’s ghost whispers hope. . . #autumn #spring #winter #seeds #underworld #ghost #whispers #hope #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #110221 #haiga #20212024-11-04T04:00:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/03/death-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_f0334af5-de3a-4343-805e-bb2963344228.jpgimage_f0334af5-de3a-4343-805e-bb2963344228Death Death is an entry, / a metaphor unfolding, / a flower empty. . . #death #entry #metaphor #flower #empty #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #november #sunday #110324 #20242024-11-03T18:29:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/11/03/silence-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image_8abada93-f8e5-4fe0-8cc1-9ea80729885f.jpgimage_8abada93-f8e5-4fe0-8cc1-9ea80729885fSilence Fall leaves on a bench, a pile of my yesterdays all in dead silence. . . #silence #fall #leaves #silence #dead #yesterday #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #november #saturday #110224 #20242024-11-03T05:34:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/31/flash-of-inspiration/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-1.pngimage2024-11-01T03:34:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/31/haiku-to-you-thursday-cravings/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_b2be753c-1a58-4216-8359-f4a9722bbdc7.jpgimage_b2be753c-1a58-4216-8359-f4a9722bbdc7Cravings Halloween evening. The dead amongst us this hour crave “sweets” to devour. . . #cravings #halloween #dead #crave #devour #sweets #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #103111 #20112024-11-01T02:19:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/30/fright/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_66a36e50-ca43-4dcd-a544-b5689bc810a2.jpgimage_66a36e50-ca43-4dcd-a544-b5689bc810a2Fright Writer up all night / succumbs to his story’s fright — / no end in sight. . . #fright #writer #night #story #sight #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #humor #davidebooker #october #wednesday #103024 #20242024-10-31T03:47:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/29/once-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_f0c27aeb-f1c7-4494-99d8-4df506c35c07.jpgimage_f0c27aeb-f1c7-4494-99d8-4df506c35c07Once Once leaves flew above. / Now, they gather here below, / death waits on the wind. . . #once #leaves #flew #gather #below #death #wind #haiku #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #tuesday #102924 #20242024-10-30T03:59:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/28/books/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_cb53f569-5cfe-46b6-be6b-7adf87644ea1.jpgimage_cb53f569-5cfe-46b6-be6b-7adf87644ea1And I don’t vote for those who would ban books, especially to rewrite history or deny others their voices.2024-10-28T22:38:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/27/brushy-mountain-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_a15c5fb7-0be6-4edf-ae3b-09dfe8973722.jpgimage_a15c5fb7-0be6-4edf-ae3b-09dfe8973722Brushy Mountain Watchers and watched speak / Memories wet and cold as / A Saturday rain. . . #rain #saturday #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #writer #davidebooker #october #2019 #prison #memories #brushymountainstatepenitentiary #watchers #watched #tennessee #1020192024-10-27T10:26:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/26/best/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_8e5ec97a-9c9b-49d9-9499-a624f351d01e.jpgimage_8e5ec97a-9c9b-49d9-9499-a624f351d01eBest Be not tomorrow. / Flowers give their best now. / The future has no eyes. . . #best #glowers #tomorrow #now #future #eyes #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #october #saturday #102624 #20242024-10-27T03:57:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/24/haiku-to-you-thursday-photo/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_f945030d-d120-4cfc-ac76-5d5c433680b5.jpgimage_f945030d-d120-4cfc-ac76-5d5c433680b5Photo Your photo conjures / memories built with pixels / and desires unfilled. . . #photo #memories #pixels #desires #unfilled #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #october #thursday #102424 #2024 Beth in September 2019. The world moves on, but the love remains.2024-10-25T02:50:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/23/old-parchment/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_44bc5170-df71-484c-8de2-13493c0350bc.jpgimage_44bc5170-df71-484c-8de2-13493c0350bcOld parchment Fall leaves touch sidewalk, / plucked from a season’s fancy, / curled as old parchment. . . #old #parchment #leaves #sidewalk #season #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #wednesday #102324 #20242024-10-24T03:29:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/22/be-bread/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image.pngimage2024-10-23T03:12:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/21/jazz/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_367942e3-0115-4f3b-805e-164380941955.jpgimage_367942e3-0115-4f3b-805e-164380941955Jazz Jazz intonations / retire the fall evening / into the cool night. . . #jazz #intonations #fall #evening #cool #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #october #monday #102124 #20242024-10-22T00:59:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/20/salutation-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_df278b65-72e6-4703-892d-e29c98710d7f.jpgimage_df278b65-72e6-4703-892d-e29c98710d7fSalutation I stand up to you, / Young cat said to Old cane. / Old cane kept its lean. . . #cane #cat #salutation #stand #young #old #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #october #sunday #101622 #20222024-10-20T22:45:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/18/photo-finish-friday-petals/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_169efd5f-9676-4ca4-be85-f00fd2f96837.jpgimage_169efd5f-9676-4ca4-be85-f00fd2f96837Petals Old petals touch ground, / plucked from a moment’s fancy, / soft as kind thoughts of you. . . #petals #thoughts #ground #fancy #you #haiku #poem #poetry #snryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #friday #101824 #20242024-10-19T03:56:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/17/haiku-to-you-thursday-voices/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_d35d998f-9f51-4057-be28-110cb0311cf3.jpgimage_d35d998f-9f51-4057-be28-110cb0311cf3Voices The muting of day. The weaving voice of evening. The whisper of night. . . #day #evening #night #muting #weaving #voice #whisper #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #thursday #101724 #20242024-10-18T03:55:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/16/sometimes-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_cb1e624d-f799-4aec-8582-14c8362713bb.jpgimage_cb1e624d-f799-4aec-8582-14c8362713bbSometimes Sometimes, what I see, / heavy yet light in the sky, / are moments of you. . . #sometimes #heavy #light #moments #see #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #monday #102623 #20232024-10-17T01:39:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/15/if/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_bf95c8af-df5b-4a1e-b5ac-69ad53308299.pngimage_bf95c8af-df5b-4a1e-b5ac-69ad533082992024-10-16T03:57:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/13/tomatoes-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_711476b7-bc87-4d61-968f-c738fa18c42a.jpgimage_711476b7-bc87-4d61-968f-c738fa18c42aTomatoes The days shorten. / The tomatoes still ripen. / Soon, the vine withers. . . #tomatoes #days #vine #shorten #ripen #withers #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #sunday #101324 #20242024-10-14T00:04:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/12/eyes-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_284b1056-7b67-4004-be67-14eb970976e1.jpgimage_284b1056-7b67-4004-be67-14eb970976e1Eyes Cat’s eyes in the dark, / answering the emptiness, / cool in the silence. . . #eyes #cat #dark #emptiness #cool #silence #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #101224 #20242024-10-13T03:47:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/11/photo-finish-friday-fists/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_583715b1-b815-478a-b7fc-6aeb10342ab3.jpgimage_583715b1-b815-478a-b7fc-6aeb10342ab3Fists Curled into dead fists / brown leaves deny, then decay. / Winter takes them in. . . #fists #leaves #winter #deny, #decay #dead #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorhtknoxville #davidebooker #october #friday #101124 #20242024-10-11T05:04:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/09/moment-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_b43cbaef-1b24-4ad3-8a75-5a1d24972075.jpgimage_b43cbaef-1b24-4ad3-8a75-5a1d24972075Moment The mirror reflects / a moment ago, but also / a moment to be. . . #moment #mirror #reflects #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #october #wednesday #033023t #060019p #100924 #20242024-10-09T13:26:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/07/monday-morning-writing-joke-hearing-keys/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_fd45892a-5b1d-45f9-8f88-4acfabfa2e39.jpgThe key to the conversation.The key to the conversation.2024-10-08T01:23:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/07/oven/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_faa95560-0648-4c11-8748-37232ca9266f.jpgimage_faa95560-0648-4c11-8748-37232ca9266fOven From the warm oven / the scent of fresh muffins / and fall memories. . . #oven #muffins #memories #fall #fresh #warm #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #october #monday #100724 #20242024-10-08T01:07:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/05/morning-glory/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_21cdb0c8-07db-421e-9aa5-15c46c00adad.jpgimage_21cdb0c8-07db-421e-9aa5-15c46c00adadMorning glory Trumpeting today / the morning glory funnels / a bit of the sun. . . #morning #glory #funnel #trumpet #today #sun #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #100524 #20242024-10-06T03:23:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/04/photo-finish-friday-icarus/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_9712c4f4-d5d3-4720-8dca-1d226e7eea78.jpgimage_9712c4f4-d5d3-4720-8dca-1d226e7eea78Icarus I lack the sky / and even if I could fly / the birds would laugh. . . #Icarus #birds #sky #laugh #fly #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #knoxville #davidebooker #october #friday #100424 #20242024-10-05T03:50:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/10/02/vase/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image_3199daf4-5831-4caa-91c6-0431d1887b49.jpgimage_3199daf4-5831-4caa-91c6-0431d1887b492024-10-03T06:57:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/30/sprouting/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_dc36edc2-d4a8-41df-a4e4-b588f9f27391.jpgimage_dc36edc2-d4a8-41df-a4e4-b588f9f27391Sprouting Sprouting from the Earth, / visitors after the storms, / bringing forth fungi. . . #093024 #sprouting #earth #visitors #storms #fungi #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #monday #20242024-10-01T03:48:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/28/raindrops/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_8bde0a3e-deb5-4e16-a572-1ba76b72b16e.jpgimage_8bde0a3e-deb5-4e16-a572-1ba76b72b16eRaindrops Small fall raindrops fall / to the roiling big river / to the untamed seas. . . #raindrops #small #fall #river #seas #untamed #roiling #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #saturday #092824 #20242024-09-28T21:57:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/25/tomatoes/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_afa4669e-a3b1-4bb0-8c72-555c66b06a45.jpgimage_afa4669e-a3b1-4bb0-8c72-555c66b06a45Tomatoes Two green tomatoes / coated in hurricane rain, / fall drops ending draught. . . #tomatoes #hurricane #fall #drops #draught #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #wednesday #092524 #20242024-09-26T03:51:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/25/wave/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_68aea139-b9c3-47ab-bdf2-70616ccb06c8.jpgimage_68aea139-b9c3-47ab-bdf2-70616ccb06c8Wave Wave forth the fall night, the one-armed skeleton said. Hear the ghosts whisper. . . #wave #fall #skeleton #ghosts #whisper #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #wednesday #092524 #20242024-09-25T06:52:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/23/vagabond/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_d4203aa3-7768-4e99-83da-4842af371e8e.jpgimage_d4203aa3-7768-4e99-83da-4842af371e8eVagabond Through the window / the setting sun wanders in, / a fall vagabond. . . #vagabond #window #sun #fall #wanders #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #talltalestogo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #monday #092324 #20242024-09-24T03:35:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/22/big-mouth/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_b7b6db1d-5cca-47d9-9d16-25fbf41bb9f8.jpgimage_b7b6db1d-5cca-47d9-9d16-25fbf41bb9f8Big Mouth Oh, if only the Big Mouth would go on. I give it gas and gear it all day long To drive the broken old bastard to where it belongs. Oh, come on Big Mouth, you roll on. I work the clutch like a diphthong switch, Pressing hard every time I got an itch And shift those gears without an itch. I work that clutch like a well-worn bitch. I whine Big Mouth up to its highest gear. Then no more whining will I hear, The wind whipping by, the sky clear. I whine Big Mouth up to its highest gear. Only a little more left on this rutted road. Big Mouth strains under its stolen load. Big Mouth acts as though its dark future is foretold. I slam my foot on Big Mouth and drive bold. . . #bigmouth #gear #shift #clutch #road #future #dark #peom #poetry #rhyming #davidebooker #september #saturday #092124 #20242024-09-23T02:05:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/22/rain-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_5353959c-81b3-42eb-b5ae-c0476ba38b08.jpgimage_5353959c-81b3-42eb-b5ae-c0476ba38b08Rain Rain, the clouds whisper; / gray, gathering brood wearing / humidity's smile. . . #haiku #rain # clouds #whisper #brood #humidity #smile #poem #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #september #sunday #092224 #20242024-09-23T01:26:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/20/photo-finish-friday-nothing/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_14bc82bb-c5c0-4780-a90f-fef49ba5203b.jpgimage_14bc82bb-c5c0-4780-a90f-fef49ba5203bNothing I left with nothing / because I came with nothing, / but my heart is free. . . #nothing #heart #free #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #friday #030423t #092024p #0920242024-09-21T03:56:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/19/haiku-to-you-thursday-stride/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_2f4b921f-86cc-4ab6-ae76-74440b8f344a.jpgimage_2f4b921f-86cc-4ab6-ae76-74440b8f344aStride Find your lost stride / along the overgrown path. / The garden’s still there. . . #stride #find #lost #path #garden #still #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #davidebooker #september #thursday #091923t #091924p #20242024-09-20T03:16:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/17/been-busy/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_e28ae197-ab29-4c8b-b69b-45dc97be5836.jpgimage_e28ae197-ab29-4c8b-b69b-45dc97be5836Bee(n) Busy Bee(n) Busy Artist / turning dream, clay, glaze, and slip / into handmade art. . . #bee(n) #busy #dream #glaze #slip #handmade #art #laurenbooker #davidebooker #september #tuesday #091724 #20242024-09-18T03:55:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/16/old-coat/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_d5b236f2-f6aa-4255-9ef4-8900ea4b4751.jpgimage_d5b236f2-f6aa-4255-9ef4-8900ea4b4751Old coat Time is an old coat / worn thin in the pockets / clutched for its memories. . . #old #coat #thin #pockets #clutched #memories #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #monday #091624 #20242024-09-17T00:50:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/14/over/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_d23fabc2-5bfd-4be8-9b0a-68ea711163eb.jpgimage_d23fabc2-5bfd-4be8-9b0a-68ea711163ebOver Languid dog reclines, / drooping like an old flower / over the bed’s edge. . . #over #dog #languid #droop #flower #bed #edge #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #laurenabooker #september #saturday #091424 #20242024-09-15T03:30:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/13/haiku-to-you-thursday-train/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_478706dd-a20a-4265-8a0c-971f10a7ba3c.jpgimage_478706dd-a20a-4265-8a0c-971f10a7ba3cTrain Abandoned building, / brown grass, and train clattering / through dried history. . . #train #building #grass #clattering #history #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #september #091224 #20242024-09-13T04:10:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/11/dogs-and-cats-of-ohio/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_675dcf64-433e-4711-94b8-2166788edb72.jpgimage_675dcf64-433e-4711-94b8-2166788edb72Dogs and Cats of Ohio I heard they’re eating pets in Ohio, Dogs and cats to name a few, And if they’re not available, Rabbits, rodents, and rats will do. I heard the town was Springfield, Where Bart Simpson is said to live. Pest control went to his door And asked, “What the hell gives?” Bart said he knew nothing of it. Then he belched and he sighed. In the back, a bearded Vance Held up a held up a cat: “Have you tried?” BK Junior descended to town With his wild frontier show. Left a dead bear in the park So everybody would know. Then a felon feeling compelling Tried to put Fear upon the stage. But being foretold he was too old Donning a fool’s errand rage. And the beast it did consume him In its ever-pitiless way And once the beast had self eaten. Not even a cat could find a stray. . . #091124 #dogs #cats #ohio #poem #political #satire #maga #felondon #september #wednesday #davidebooker #meme #20242024-09-12T03:28:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/10/souvenirs/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_9ed4b39e-c3c0-40e0-95fd-503a9eaf5cd5.jpgimage_9ed4b39e-c3c0-40e0-95fd-503a9eaf5cd5Souvenirs The vase holds dead blooms. / The letter holds unanswered words. / The last petal falls. . . #souvenirs #vase #bloom #letter #words #petal #falls #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #tuesday #091024 #20242024-09-11T04:14:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/09/hell/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_e30f21fa-2e63-430d-8c97-ac772a844263.jpgimage_e30f21fa-2e63-430d-8c97-ac772a844263Hell Hell is not empty. / The devils have brought it with them. / Each street its own end. . . #hell #empty #devils #street #end #shakespeare #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #september #monday #090924 #20242024-09-10T03:49:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/08/bread-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_c99c4c8f-41ad-4f49-aa16-7e77c418951f.jpgimage_c99c4c8f-41ad-4f49-aa16-7e77c418951fBread Tasty treat to beat / late summer’s rising heat: / apple banana bread. . . #bread #treat #apple #banana #summer #heat #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #sunday #090824 #20242024-09-09T01:05:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/06/two-chairs-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_34edd10b-5f83-4444-8fd9-f79ce12de034.jpgimage_34edd10b-5f83-4444-8fd9-f79ce12de034Two chairs We shall find ourselves, / two chairs by an ageless sea, / folding in our names. . . #chairs #sea #we #names #australia #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #mariaforoudi #september #sunday #090422 #20222024-09-06T22:02:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/05/haiku-to-you-thursday-bright-bones/2024-09-06T03:50:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/04/dwell/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_eaf49014-76c9-485e-804f-15d82b33f864.jpgimage_eaf49014-76c9-485e-804f-15d82b33f864Dwell Dwell among the clouds, / the meteorologist said, / and paint there your mood. . . #dwell #clouds #meteorologist #paint #mood #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #wednesday #090424 #20242024-09-05T03:15:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/03/behold/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_f1052302-7609-4dfb-ac22-2c01bb08061f.jpgimage_f1052302-7609-4dfb-ac22-2c01bb08061fBehold Behold gnarled death, / brown in the September light, / crisp on the fingers. . . #behold #gnarled #death #brown #light #crisp #fingers #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #tuesday #090324 #20242024-09-04T02:50:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/02/evening-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_d1c64cf2-7286-4bea-9e6c-5f27ada21d90.jpgimage_d1c64cf2-7286-4bea-9e6c-5f27ada21d90Evening Cat purrs quietly, / sits on the picnic table. / September evening. . . #evening #picnic #table #cat #purrs #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #monday #090224 #20242024-09-03T03:50:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/01/september/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_11aa1643-b385-473d-bfb2-d50ab51ae4d4.jpgimage_11aa1643-b385-473d-bfb2-d50ab51ae4d4September September begins. / Many sunflowers are dead. / The bee still finds work. . . #september #sunflowers #dead #bee #work #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #friday #090123 #20232024-09-02T03:24:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/09/01/still-green/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_b5c021ba-354e-4fef-8824-5f1a4a02547e.jpgimage_b5c021ba-354e-4fef-8824-5f1a4a02547eStill green As days grow shorter, / September’s green tomatoes / still age on the vine. . . #green #days #tomatoes #vine #age #shorter #still #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #talltalestogo #davidebooker #september #sunday #090124 #20242024-09-02T03:03:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/31/where/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_e16646a1-aa7d-4579-91ed-285716cc5af6.jpgimage_e16646a1-aa7d-4579-91ed-285716cc5af6Where Where once bright flowers / pulsated with energy, / now rattle empty . . #where #flowers #energy #empty #rattle #pulsate #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #saturday #083124 #20242024-09-01T03:45:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/30/photo-finish-friday-wings/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_147b654a-97d6-4ce6-a9a7-8471ccef1e47.jpgimage_147b654a-97d6-4ce6-a9a7-8471ccef1e47Wings Wings across the sky, / expansive nephogram. / Eagle, hawk, or dove? . . #wings #sky #neohogram #eagle #hawk #dove #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #friday #083024 #20242024-08-31T03:08:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/29/haiku-to-you-thursday-breathe/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_6e47b6a7-6392-4536-ac9c-5cc1bd9b955a.jpgimage_6e47b6a7-6392-4536-ac9c-5cc1bd9b955aBreathe Breathe in the moment. / Breathe out the mind’s chatter. / Breathe, to say the least. . . #breathe #moment #chatter #mind #least #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #august #thursday #082924 #083023t #20242024-08-30T03:49:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/29/blue-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_be9a64bc-ee13-4fc8-a10b-33d073c937ec.jpgimage_be9a64bc-ee13-4fc8-a10b-33d073c937ecBlue Evening shades of blue. / I look up and think of you. / Nimbus cloud in view. . . #nimbus #blue #view #shades #evening #cloud #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #monday #082922 #20222024-08-30T02:44:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/28/rule-of-95/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_922c98b4-fe6b-4408-97f4-46ba5deac2ab.jpgimage_922c98b4-fe6b-4408-97f4-46ba5deac2abRule of 95 Evening east and heat. / Rule of 95 invoked. / I scream for ice cream. . . #rule #95 #east #heat #icecream #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #082824 #20242024-08-29T04:16:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/27/oh-santa/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_82f2a249-6c05-496b-9b7a-a8e30a3ad5c2.jpgimage_82f2a249-6c05-496b-9b7a-a8e30a3ad5c2Oh, Santa Oh, Santa, your wife / is so distraught. You left your / August balls behind. . . #Santa #wife #balls #behind #distraught #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #august #tuesday #082724 #202462024-08-28T00:08:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/23/photo-finish-friday-sun/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_965c5add-77b0-402a-8b87-19476dbeb30c.jpgimage_965c5add-77b0-402a-8b87-19476dbeb30cSun Ordinary star, / our sun a steady beacon / in the August sky. . . #sun #beacon #star #sky #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #friday #082324 #20242024-08-24T05:20:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/21/know/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_f733d59b-eda1-4110-bcea-6c5d4f97da12.jpgimage_f733d59b-eda1-4110-bcea-6c5d4f97da12Know A field of flowers: / bright, showy, and all dressed the same. / Does each know its own? . . #field #flowers #know #showy #own #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #081823t #082124 #20242024-08-22T02:31:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/20/withered/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_06ff00d0-f8bb-4994-bf99-d840512c0a96.jpgimage_06ff00d0-f8bb-4994-bf99-d840512c0a96Withered The dying flower, / withered with its ending, / purifies our beauty. . . #withered #flower #dying #ending #purifies #beauty #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #tuesday #082024 #20242024-08-21T03:27:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/18/bound/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_a9442f86-6930-4621-a105-d8b3d5c032fe.jpgimage_a9442f86-6930-4621-a105-d8b3d5c032feBound Soon bound by the night, / the cardinal works free seed, / ruffled vagabond. . . #bound #vagabond #cardinal #seed #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #sunday #081824 #20242024-08-19T03:49:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/18/dog-gone-it-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_9442ca5c-ef3c-46d4-b0f8-b6e4b9e95224.jpgimage_9442ca5c-ef3c-46d4-b0f8-b6e4b9e95224Dog gone it My bills dog me / Dollar signs dressed in due dates / Nipping at my heart. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #writer #bills #august #dog #saturday #2019 #heart #duedate #heart #nipping #dollar #oldnorthknoxville #0817192024-08-19T02:17:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/17/curiosity/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_7c48aa49-2153-4a9b-905c-f39244dba27b.jpgimage_7c48aa49-2153-4a9b-905c-f39244dba27b2024-08-18T03:57:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/16/sunflower/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_66b806b4-0856-4f38-8ec3-005fde2be44c.jpgimage_66b806b4-0856-4f38-8ec3-005fde2be44c2024-08-17T04:04:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/15/haiku-to-you-thursday-whisper-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_be225cb7-2303-4d39-9f17-8cadf02120e5.jpgimage_be225cb7-2303-4d39-9f17-8cadf02120e5Whisper August overhead, / clouds sailing a hot, blue sky, / whispering of fall. . . #whisper #clouds #sky #fall #sailing #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #knoxville ##davidebooker #august #thursday #081524 #20242024-08-16T03:58:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/12/busy-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_d51a9a59-f282-4aa3-8fc8-53b6246dc295.jpgimage_d51a9a59-f282-4aa3-8fc8-53b6246dc295Busy Busy as a bee, / you say you are as I stand, / like a sunflower. . . #busy #sunflower #bee #stand #you #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #monday #081224 #20242024-08-13T03:48:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/11/transcends/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_f9ae1036-cd06-44fe-89ba-ad22151538da.jpgimage_f9ae1036-cd06-44fe-89ba-ad22151538daTranscends Its blossom fleeting, / the sunflower lives briefly. / Its beauty transcends. . . #transcends #beauty #fleeting #sunflower #lives #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #sunday #081124 #20242024-08-12T03:56:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/10/plurality/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_84331b5e-92c5-400a-aa23-af97f2d8eb35.jpgimage_84331b5e-92c5-400a-aa23-af97f2d8eb35Plurality Open to others means plurality does not embrace bigotry. . . #plurality #means #embrace #bigotry #open #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #davidebooker #august #saturday #081024 #20242024-08-11T03:47:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/08/justice/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_55f38021-f0fb-4495-a6db-a581e55ee666.jpgimage_55f38021-f0fb-4495-a6db-a581e55ee666Justice Not all wear capes, but / all true heroes seek justice, / even when it rains. . . #justice #heroes #capes #rains #true #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #superman #illinois #davidebooker #august #thursday #060717p #080824 #20242024-08-09T03:47:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/07/generosity-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_cfd8ccf8-acec-497c-a08f-1a0aa6f1b70e.jpgimage_cfd8ccf8-acec-497c-a08f-1a0aa6f1b70eGenerosity Clouds festoon blue sky, / showcasing the summer’s / generosity. . . #generosity #clouds #summer #sky #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #080724 #20242024-08-08T03:52:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/06/interdependence/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_51b9579a-d792-4b70-b888-8806f34609f9.jpgimage_51b9579a-d792-4b70-b888-8806f34609f9Interdependence Twin blooms share one stem, / mixing soil, sun, and water: / interdependence. . . #interdependence #blooms #twin #stem #soil #sun #water #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #tuesday #080624 #20242024-08-07T03:48:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/05/generosity/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_1dde0b22-11ca-46bb-b8a7-750c970afff5.jpgimage_1dde0b22-11ca-46bb-b8a7-750c970afff5Generosity Sulfur Cosmos, / generous with its bright shade / of the universe. . . #generosity #sulfur #cosmos #universe #shade #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #monday #071624p 080524 #20242024-08-06T03:41:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/04/transformation/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_57939c85-e4c5-4636-8388-e25cf5cf5d52.jpgimage_57939c85-e4c5-4636-8388-e25cf5cf5d52Transformation Each day’s sun turns / darkness into light and shines / forth transformation. . . #transformation #sun #darkness #light #shines #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #sunday #080424 #061323p #20242024-08-05T03:48:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/03/see/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_bdf6fcca-7820-493e-aa94-813c8141f86d.jpgimage_bdf6fcca-7820-493e-aa94-813c8141f86dSee See a soaring face. / See a gray, brooding mountain. / See the clouds misplaced. . . #see #face #mountains #clouds #misplaced #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #saturday #080324 #20242024-08-04T03:50:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/03/relic/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_780d676e-b9e1-4fe4-81ae-56eb2daa4343.jpgimage_780d676e-b9e1-4fe4-81ae-56eb2daa4343Relic A roadside relic. / Forgotten memories echo / in abandoned drawers. . . #relic #memories #roadside #abandoned #drawers #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #0803182024-08-04T03:18:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/02/photo-finish-friday-path-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_c2c202c4-84a8-4ba9-8822-ae0ebc6ee78d.jpgimage_c2c202c4-84a8-4ba9-8822-ae0ebc6ee78dPath Adaptable and / pragmatic, the flower finds / a path to grow. . . #path #adaptable #pragmatic #grow #flower #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #friday #080123t #080224 #20242024-08-03T03:16:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/08/02/casting/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_7fa03b87-bb26-4875-abcc-b24c6f669f1d.jpgimage_7fa03b87-bb26-4875-abcc-b24c6f669f1dCasting Casting through thoughts / I find a memory of you, / spry as a pepper. . . #casting #spry #pepper #thoughts #memories #you #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #wednesday #073124 #20242024-08-03T01:49:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/27/soup-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_30409576-40fb-4286-b2bd-eff9b401ff8e.jpgimage_30409576-40fb-4286-b2bd-eff9b401ff8eSoup Homemade pot of soup, / blends fresh ingredients and / memories of you. . . #soup #memories #pot #ingredients #you #homemade #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #saturday #072724 #20242024-07-28T03:58:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/24/glimpses-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_39aecf66-bca8-4c4b-a774-867403b5d19a.jpgimage_39aecf66-bca8-4c4b-a774-867403b5d19aGlimpses With glimpse after glimpse / you see the mind’s true nature / and wisdom flowers. . . #glimpse #wisdom #flowers #mind #nature #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #wednesday #july #072424 #20242024-07-25T03:50:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/22/structures/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_6a70be93-b3dd-48f6-b717-d5a48ec75d46.jpgimage_6a70be93-b3dd-48f6-b717-d5a48ec75d46Structures Structures overhead, / a city of clouds crowds summer’s fertile sky. . . #structures #sky #city #summer #overhead #crowds #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #072224 #20242024-07-23T03:57:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/21/wind-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_d8cd7b7f-07be-46e5-bea2-e23c315f38da.jpgimage_d8cd7b7f-07be-46e5-bea2-e23c315f38daWind Tattered and flailing, / too many thoughts of you / ride the evening wind. . . #wind #thoughts #you #tattered #flailing #evening #wind #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #knoxville #davidebooker #july #saturday #072024 #20242024-07-21T04:00:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/19/photo-finish-friday-alone/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_be0a0448-6e86-4cb5-a04e-138b9df21829.jpgimage_be0a0448-6e86-4cb5-a04e-138b9df21829Alone It’s the time of year / when answers dance madly / and blooms die alone. . . #alone #time #year #answers #dance #blooms #madly #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #friday #071924 #20242024-07-20T03:37:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/18/haiku-to-you-thursday-garden-time/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_d2b9f4a5-52ff-4289-a359-b5abec621fa6.jpgimage_d2b9f4a5-52ff-4289-a359-b5abec621fa6Garden time It’s the time of year / when my garden yearns for rain / and so do I. . . #garden #time #year #rain #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #thursday #071824 #20242024-07-19T00:32:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/16/echoes-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_fab9f245-dde1-4584-819f-43a35d8627d9.jpgimage_fab9f245-dde1-4584-819f-43a35d8627d9Echoes Petals dangle: / shriveled, dull, and empty; / echoes of summer. . . #echoes #petals #shriveled #dull #empty #summer #talltalestogo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #tuesday #071624 #20242024-07-17T03:59:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/15/words-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_c7f1f69f-8928-4410-a676-32c73cd4dd09.jpgimage_c7f1f69f-8928-4410-a676-32c73cd4dd09Words Words you will not hear / ring forth from my fingers’ touch / and my lips’ caress. . . #words #hear #ring #fingers #touch #lips #caress #haiku #photo #poetry #poem #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #tuesday #071524 #2024 #071212t2024-07-16T02:01:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/13/upended/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_1a0286fd-6466-40a4-ab8f-d88fb3b3cfff.jpgimage_1a0286fd-6466-40a4-ab8f-d88fb3b3cfffUpended Even upended / the sunflower’s tall beauty / continues to bloom. . . #upended #sunflower #beauty #bloom #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #saturday #071324 #20242024-07-14T03:59:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/12/photo-finish-friday-window/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_5e4b2769-5cd4-466e-9b59-da3445db43f0.jpgimage_5e4b2769-5cd4-466e-9b59-da3445db43f0Window Summer view framed / by an abandoned window / and a deep, lavish heat. . . #window #summer #heat #abandoned #lavish #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #july #friday #071224 #20242024-07-13T00:45:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/11/haiku-to-you-thursday-evening/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_6e60eb84-e8e6-47f1-9716-481bd9cd5f57.jpgimage_6e60eb84-e8e6-47f1-9716-481bd9cd5f57Evening Embraced by the sky / The wind settles to a sigh. / Evening whispers night. . . #evening #whispers #night #sky #wind #sigh #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #thursday #071124 #20242024-07-11T04:45:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/09/two-buildings/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_521d8539-d17d-4344-ba55-1661ec38e7ad.jpgimage_521d8539-d17d-4344-ba55-1661ec38e7adTwo buildings Two buildings erect, / both patients of history: / one preserved; one waits. . . #buildings #erect #patients #history #preserved #waits #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #knoxville #stmarys #davidebooker #july #tuesday #070924 #20242024-07-10T03:38:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/08/rebirth-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_a78050a7-a551-4e60-9bb7-688557329bdc.jpgimage_a78050a7-a551-4e60-9bb7-688557329bdcRebirth Rescued from the fall, / sunflowers thrive in the vase. / Summer storm rebirth. . . #rebirth #rescued #summer #storm #sunflowers #vase #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #070824 #20242024-07-09T03:28:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/07/when/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_777cac4a-6b9e-4797-8766-72e46e364fba.jpgimage_777cac4a-6b9e-4797-8766-72e46e364fbaWhen When the well runs dry, / there is blackberry cobbler, / maybe ice cream, too. . . #when #well #dry #blackberry #cobbler #icecream #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #sunday #070724 #20242024-07-08T03:39:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/06/promise-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_092ce5a5-bc49-4ad0-b014-621ca009577e.jpgimage_092ce5a5-bc49-4ad0-b014-621ca009577ePromise Pollen dusts the bee / weaving across the flower, / building a promise. . . #promise #bee #flower #pollen #dusts #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #saturday #070624 #20242024-07-07T02:42:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/05/photo-finish-friday-summer-folly/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_2271e163-df6e-4ae3-91b5-a6a0d503e708.jpgimage_2271e163-df6e-4ae3-91b5-a6a0d503e708Summer folly Toward a foreign sleep / the fallen sunflowers go. / Summer storm folly. . . #folly #sleep #sunflowers #fallen #foreign #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #friday #070524 #20242024-07-06T03:43:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/05/haiku-yo-you-thursday-word/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_2257750a-ad15-49d0-9472-32784cbcb195.jpgimage_2257750a-ad15-49d0-9472-32784cbcb195Word Patriotism / a word often slung bluntly / but not held deeply. . . #word #patriotism #slung #bluntly #held #deeply #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #knoxvilletennessee #july #thursday #070424 #20242024-07-05T04:10:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/04/voices-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_6068ff75-1eba-4805-9b41-5c5d6bcc739e.jpgimage_6068ff75-1eba-4805-9b41-5c5d6bcc739eVoices Endless voices shout: / our freedom, where does it bloom? / In all hearts of love. . . #voices #freedom #bloom #hearts #love #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #flag #july4th #talltalestogo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #2022 #0704222024-07-04T22:24:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/02/july/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_ed3c163e-1d82-440f-af53-5dbf52d86981.jpgimage_ed3c163e-1d82-440f-af53-5dbf52d86981July On a hot July, / on a sidewalk, abandoned, / the stuffed monkey bakes. . . #july #monkey #sidewalk #abandoned #bakes #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #tuesday #070224 #20242024-07-03T01:55:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/07/01/dreams-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image_7177a78f-acc7-4897-9f1a-99ae7a29e960.jpgimage_7177a78f-acc7-4897-9f1a-99ae7a29e960Dreams Summer dreams can be / sweet as freshly baked bread / topped with sugar icing. . . #dreams #summer #icing #bread #sweet #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #070124 #20242024-07-02T03:51:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/30/trembles/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_3166a41f-750d-4357-970a-eca2b16ba2c2.jpgimage_3166a41f-750d-4357-970a-eca2b16ba2c2Trembles The hot earth trembles. / The clouds open with cold rain. / The creek ebbs and flows. . . #trembles #earth #clouds #rain #creek #ebbs #flows #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #firstcreekgreenway #davidebooker #june #sunday #063024 #062623t #20242024-07-01T03:24:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/27/haiku-to-you-thursday-bells/2024-06-28T03:38:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/26/reflect/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_ee45e5ed-c077-4836-bed9-87714d631ec6.jpgimage_ee45e5ed-c077-4836-bed9-87714d631ec6Reflect The mirror reflects / what was on the outside, / not what is inside. . . #reflect #mirror #reflects #outside #inside #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #wednesday #062624 #052423t #20242024-06-27T03:38:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/23/give/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_c989e073-62cc-4a4c-887c-af0b80acb0c3.jpgimage_c989e073-62cc-4a4c-887c-af0b80acb0c3Give Love, but do not own. / Live, put do not possess. / Give, but do not expect. . . #give #love #live #own #possess #expect #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #sunday #062324 #20242024-06-24T03:56:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/22/your-garden/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_308fcd27-beab-4932-9922-944f0679f8b5.jpgimage_308fcd27-beab-4932-9922-944f0679f8b5Your garden I pluck the deadheads, / the day lilies that have died / and I remember. . . #garden #your #remember #deadheads #daylilies #I #pluck #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #saturday #062224 #20242024-06-23T02:25:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/22/photo-finish-friday-clouds-arch/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_cc2ab896-ec6d-49b8-b619-be61dcb7f2b2.jpgimage_cc2ab896-ec6d-49b8-b619-be61dcb7f2b2Clouds arch White clouds arch upward, / brushing the lips of heaven. / Pleasantries exchanged. . . #clouds #arch #lips #heaven #pleasantries #exchanged #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletennessee #davidebooker #june #friday #062124 #20242024-06-22T04:00:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/21/vacation-2019-2/2024-06-21T20:57:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/20/haiku-to-you-thursday-mockingbird/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_efe61d7a-b658-4982-bc53-ca30ec0701eb.jpgimage_efe61d7a-b658-4982-bc53-ca30ec0701ebMockingbird Mockingbird complains / as I pick “his” blueberries, / steal his largess. . . #mockingbird #complains #largess #blueberries #steal #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #thursday #062024 #20242024-06-20T05:24:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/19/wisdom/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_1cfe9904-fd0f-4376-8a08-4d7cb478661f.jpgimage_1cfe9904-fd0f-4376-8a08-4d7cb478661fWisdom Smell the lilies bloom. / Hear the wisdom of no words. / See and touch and be. . . #061323t #wisdom #smell #lilies #bloom #hear #words #see #touch #be #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #wednesday #061924 #20242024-06-19T06:02:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/18/enjoy/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_276a6321-3c67-42ff-b495-55d35ca8eae9.jpgimage_276a6321-3c67-42ff-b495-55d35ca8eae9Enjoy Today, flowers bloom. / Tomorrow, they may be gone. / Did you enjoy them? . . #enjoy #flower #bloom #today #tomorrow #gone #you #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #tuesday #061824 #20242024-06-18T05:29:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/16/community/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_edcc5d35-3bfd-47e4-a5b7-c112a4d20738.jpgimage_edcc5d35-3bfd-47e4-a5b7-c112a4d20738Community Sunflower petals, / a community as one / turned toward the sun. . . #community #sunflower #petals #one #sun #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #sunday #061624 #20242024-06-17T03:43:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/15/truth-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_22171af6-175a-454a-80e8-ba0f6640f3dd.jpgimage_22171af6-175a-454a-80e8-ba0f6640f3ddTruth Some days truth is an / orange day lily catching / the declining sun. . . #truth #daylily #days #sun #declining #catching #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #saturday #061524 #20242024-06-16T01:41:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/13/haiku-to-you-thursday-equity/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_7248a00f-3860-4870-8b4d-955c5aeb441f.jpgimage_7248a00f-3860-4870-8b4d-955c5aeb441fEquity One just as the next, / flowers unfold in beauty: / equal and unique. . . #equity #one #flowers #beauty #equal #unique #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #thursday #061324 #20242024-06-14T03:57:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/12/shadows-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_a29b8673-2b08-4a54-adb8-b08c25562c2c.jpgimage_a29b8673-2b08-4a54-adb8-b08c25562c2cShadows Shadows weave among / the flower congregation / as they grow toward night. . . #shadows #weave #flower #congregation #grow #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #wednesday #061224 #20242024-06-13T03:35:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/11/worth-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_e4f1f222-5645-4527-ab26-79c238aeabfb.jpgimage_e4f1f222-5645-4527-ab26-79c238aeabfbWorth Soil is dignity, / nurturing inherent worth / of all that grows. . . #worth #soil #dignity #grows #inherent #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #tuesday #0611124 #20242024-06-12T03:57:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/10/experience/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_ece0b65b-6ed6-44c0-b693-c8107130ca35.jpgimage_ece0b65b-6ed6-44c0-b693-c8107130ca35Experience To experience / cone flowers, find meaning / and truth in being. . . #experience #cone_flowers #coneflowers #truth #meaning #being #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #monday #061024 #20242024-06-11T03:46:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/08/interdependent/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_6d584794-c7c6-4dc2-9fd2-7e27442bab76.jpgimage_6d584794-c7c6-4dc2-9fd2-7e27442bab76Interdependent Interdependent: / beauty, life, respect as one / in lilies and you. . . #interdependent #beauty #life #respect #lilies #you #haiku #poem #poetry #principle #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #saturday #060824 #20242024-06-09T04:09:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/07/photo-finish-friday-touched/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_9f34d141-c9ee-4335-8495-03c31e634289.jpgimage_9f34d141-c9ee-4335-8495-03c31e634289Touched Touched and touching, / bent toward the sun and each other / memories and life. . . #touched #sun #other #memories #life #touching #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #poem #talltalestogo #davidebooker #june #friday #060724 #20242024-06-08T01:58:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/06/blueberry-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_86ac1688-f040-4b59-899f-88c13df5f448.jpgimage_86ac1688-f040-4b59-899f-88c13df5f448Blueberry Each orb a new world. / Each green new world ripens blue. / Each blue a new taste. . . #new #orb #world #taste #green #blue #blueberry #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #saturday #060422 #20222024-06-07T03:43:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/06/haiku-to-you-thursday-gathering/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_dfc53372-12ab-45a4-89ac-1376c4d93448.jpgimage_dfc53372-12ab-45a4-89ac-1376c4d93448Gathering Raindrops fall only / in this moment and then pass. / Gathering as one. . . #gathering #raindrops #fall #moment #one #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #thursday #060624 #20242024-06-06T21:28:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/05/ready/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_d63385ad-e3c6-4daf-bc1c-e46b1ab141c8.jpgimage_d63385ad-e3c6-4daf-bc1c-e46b1ab141c8Ready Turning taste to smiles, / sweet apple-banana bread: / drizzled and ready. . . #ready #drizzled #taste #smiles #bread #apple #banana #haiku #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #wednesday #060524 #20242024-06-06T03:02:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/05/roles-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_40222d86-2aa9-4a26-b2f8-645ec265d840.jpgimage_40222d86-2aa9-4a26-b2f8-645ec265d840Roles The clock floated free; / the jack, pawn, car, and acorn / left their roles behind. . . #060418-22 #pawn #jack #car #pawn #acorn #clock #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #davidebooker #laurenabooker #june #saturday2024-06-05T22:42:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/05/roles-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_5ff30e93-dadf-406c-b5c8-d295604e5064.jpgimage_5ff30e93-dadf-406c-b5c8-d295604e5064Roles The clock floated free; / the jack, pawn, car, and acorn / left their roles behind. . . #060418-22 #pawn #jack #car #pawn #acorn #clock #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #davidebooker #laurenabooker #june #saturday2024-06-05T18:58:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/05/roles-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_e89bec6b-c6cb-45db-a57c-168f0dc3f909.jpgimage_e89bec6b-c6cb-45db-a57c-168f0dc3f909Roles The clock floated free; / the jack, pawn, car, and acorn / left their roles behind. . . #060418-22 #pawn #jack #car #pawn #acorn #clock #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #davidebooker #laurenabooker #june #saturday2024-06-05T18:58:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/04/beauty-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_48757876-f71d-47b8-bdcf-c5bc4ab5938f.jpgimage_48757876-f71d-47b8-bdcf-c5bc4ab5938fBeauty Blooming has begun. / From seed to stalk to flower. / Beauty in being. . . #060423 #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #seed #stalk #flower #blooming #beauty #davidebooker #june #sunday #060423 #20232024-06-05T03:32:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/04/up-below/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_39cf7db1-0c4e-47de-8cc1-96a6e5030e0c.jpgimage_39cf7db1-0c4e-47de-8cc1-96a6e5030e0cUp below Water bends sunlight, / reflects the world above / up from below. . . #up #below #water #sunlight #world #bends #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #tuesday #060424 #20242024-06-04T04:23:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/06/02/faces-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_0315d825-0cd7-4a1d-89cf-4c29f0797ea6.jpgimage_0315d825-0cd7-4a1d-89cf-4c29f0797ea6Faces Behind today’s rain / is sunshine for tomorrow. / Two faces, one Earth. . . #faces #rain #sunshine #tomorrow #Earth #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #sunday #060224 #20242024-06-03T03:46:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/31/photo-finish-friday-grasp/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image_e7c3732e-6512-42e0-9be9-31b404ecf531.jpgimage_e7c3732e-6512-42e0-9be9-31b404ecf531Grasp Grasp impermanence: / lilies bloom and then are gone. / Then the grasp leaves. . . #grasp #lilies #impermanence #bloom #gone #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #may #friday #davidebooker #053124 #20242024-06-01T04:06:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/29/turn/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_cc34e618-ec9e-4908-afaf-a639ad329aff.jpgimage_cc34e618-ec9e-4908-afaf-a639ad329affTurn Earth turns to the Sun. / Sunflowers turn toward the light. / I turn to beauty. . . #turn #beauty #light #sunflowers #earth #sun #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #wednesday #052924 #20242024-05-30T03:49:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/28/frame/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_5afeb0f3-99df-49bc-8942-f5e84af6e7bf.jpgimage_5afeb0f3-99df-49bc-8942-f5e84af6e7bfFrame Houses frame windows, / May evening sky frames clouds. / Night frames light and dreams. . . #frame #night #houses #windows #sky #light #dreams #clouds #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #052824 #20242024-05-29T02:43:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/27/warm/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_5ed37a01-9245-4b1a-a4ab-1c5382073680.jpgimage_5ed37a01-9245-4b1a-a4ab-1c5382073680Warm Warm comes and the trees / turn spring sunlight into leaves, / leaving winter’s breeze. . . #warm #spring #sunlight #winter #breeze #leaves #trees #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #sunday #052724 #2024 #050123t2024-05-28T02:44:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/26/bruised/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_e036e869-3078-4a2e-a8ba-4dd455ed07f2.jpgimage_e036e869-3078-4a2e-a8ba-4dd455ed07f2Bruised Bruised, you came to me. / Roses darkened into night. / Love purpled by regret. . . #bruised #roses #regret #night #love #you #me #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #sunday #052624 #20242024-05-26T20:20:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/25/raindrop/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_4596ecff-a4bf-48ce-aa6a-23db72a8d43d.jpgimage_4596ecff-a4bf-48ce-aa6a-23db72a8d43dRaindrop Toward the rising star / the sunflower aims its bloom / while one raindrop dangles. . . #raindrop #sunflower #star #bloom #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #saturday #052524 #20242024-05-25T04:31:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/24/photo-finish-friday-sail/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_e4da6047-d37e-4456-ad3e-12c6884da28b.jpgimage_e4da6047-d37e-4456-ad3e-12c6884da28bSail I sail to the moon / at times more easily than / I sail to myself. . . #sail #moon #myself #easily #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #052424 #20242024-05-24T04:55:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/23/the-monster-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_f3839183-56e8-4198-9c82-cc0abd3ac251.jpgimage_f3839183-56e8-4198-9c82-cc0abd3ac251The Monster The thunder outside / Echoes storms speaking within. / Love breeds its Monster./ . . #haiku #poem #poetry #may #friday #2020 #therwilightzone #williamshatner #nightmareat20000feet #rodserling #monster #richardmatheson #052220 #davidebooker2024-05-23T04:00:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/22/celebrate/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_5848e5b6-86f4-42ca-b7e8-18ffb9a82a01.jpgimage_5848e5b6-86f4-42ca-b7e8-18ffb9a82a01Celebrate Reach for your today. / Blueberry is ripe when ripe. / Celebrate it now. . . #celebrate #today #blueberry #ripe #now #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #052023t #052224 #20242024-05-23T03:40:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/21/falls-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_a9f40e93-07e6-4aef-a39f-0e5a7e58f707.jpgimage_a9f40e93-07e6-4aef-a39f-0e5a7e58f707Falls Where you are looking / sunlight falls on many things. / What falls back to you? . . #looking #sunlight #falls #things #you #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #052124 #20242024-05-22T03:51:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/19/music/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_bc9d84d3-1c9e-46a6-b2a6-71fc30a3150c.jpgimage_bc9d84d3-1c9e-46a6-b2a6-71fc30a3150cMusic Each morning’s first note, / last melody of the day, / lullaby, goodnight. . . #music #lullaby #note #morning #day #melody #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #sunday #051924 #20242024-05-20T03:52:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/17/photo-finish-friday-joy/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_18837339-7de4-493b-9c47-cad4cb440ed5.jpgimage_18837339-7de4-493b-9c47-cad4cb440ed5Joy The joy of the Moon / is in giving to the Earth / the light of the Sun. . . #joy #Earth #Moon #Sun #light #giving #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #041724 #20242024-05-18T03:27:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/15/stench/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_1614a415-2d90-4527-9892-64f09ad3b270.jpgimage_1614a415-2d90-4527-9892-64f09ad3b270Stench Stench of a trash can / left open in the alley — / Voodoo lily blooms. . . #stench #voodoo #lily #trash #can #alley #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #may #wednesday #051524 #20242024-05-16T03:58:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/14/find-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_416520ee-f038-4fe1-a6e0-9167cee44ec5.jpgimage_416520ee-f038-4fe1-a6e0-9167cee44ec5Find Find the mean May rains. Find the beauty in the pain. Find the Iris bloom. . . #find #rain #beauty #pain #iris #bloom #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #051424 #20242024-05-15T03:32:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/13/walk/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_ae27049b-1783-4dd5-bdfb-7ea069f29c12.jpgimage_ae27049b-1783-4dd5-bdfb-7ea069f29c12Walk I walked on the Earth / and through the May morning sky / blue and green and me. . . #walk #blue #green #me #Earth #sky #morning #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #monday #051324 #20242024-05-13T22:37:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/12/devils-love/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_f1db4daf-4cb8-438d-8bb0-f85729ffba43.jpgimage_f1db4daf-4cb8-438d-8bb0-f85729ffba43Devil’s love Love-in-a-Mist is / also Devil-in-a-bush. / Such is motherhood. . . #devil #love #mist #bush #motherhood #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #sunday #051224 #20242024-05-12T16:06:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/10/photo-finish-friday-blush/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_ce37fe92-5a1d-49be-b95c-f60337bb0785.jpgimage_ce37fe92-5a1d-49be-b95c-f60337bb0785Blush First blush of blue / early blueberries ripen / birds and man waiting. . . #blush #blueberries #ripen #birds #man #waiting #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #051024 #20242024-05-11T03:53:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/09/haiku-to-you-thursday-kiss/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_35125406-c8e6-42fc-94bc-4e8c50c31c3a.jpgimage_35125406-c8e6-42fc-94bc-4e8c50c31c3aKiss Green berries pucker: / kiss the sun, the rain, the soil, / and sway in the breeze. . . #berries #kiss #sun #rain #soil #breeze #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #tallralestogo #davidebooker #may #thursday #050924 #20242024-05-10T02:47:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/08/three-leaves-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_691f28b6-70ff-4e58-a3e6-e8ee570faa89.jpgimage_691f28b6-70ff-4e58-a3e6-e8ee570faa89Three leaves Three leaves gather rain. / Heavy with sky, touch the ground. / Glistening repose. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #leaves #rain #sky #ground #repose #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #wednesday #050612t #050824p #20142024-05-09T03:43:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/07/roses-mind/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_90de19d9-d2b6-4420-9efa-3c40c875646c.jpgimage_90de19d9-d2b6-4420-9efa-3c40c875646cRose’s mind I will never know / a rose’s mind — only / that you planted it. . . #rose #mind #you #I #planted #haiku #haiga #senryu #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #050724 #20242024-05-07T22:31:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/06/promise/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_c3636978-102c-49e5-8c0b-5bd0365f81ec.jpgimage_c3636978-102c-49e5-8c0b-5bd0365f81ecPromise Open the packet. / Each seed is a promise that / waits for my hard work. . . #promise #packet #seed #hard #work #my #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #senryu #talltalestogo #davidebooker #may #monday #050624 #20242024-05-06T22:44:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/05/hope-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_eee255c1-9ba7-4dec-b391-030e20fbe92c.jpgimage_eee255c1-9ba7-4dec-b391-030e20fbe92cHope The Hail Mary here / Is neither pass nor prayer / But hope for the creek. . . #050518 #BethBooker #HailMary #creek #hope #May #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #firstcreekgreenway #cleanup #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker2024-05-06T03:21:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/05/skirt/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_c070cfa9-4178-43b1-af11-bce62bcbc5d5.jpgimage_c070cfa9-4178-43b1-af11-bce62bcbc5d5Skirt Iris rise from dark soil, / dress in a skirt of May rain, / bloom and fall from light. . . #skirt #iris #rain #May #light #bloom #soil #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #Sunday #050524 #20242024-05-06T02:18:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/03/the-park-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_4c0862b5-3117-4625-80f8-82eaa7ebfc87.jpgimage_4c0862b5-3117-4625-80f8-82eaa7ebfc87The Park Spring strolls through the park. / Shaking green from her sleeves and / Color from her eyes. . . #poem #haiku #davidebooker #poet #poetry #writer #writing #may #2019 #friday #spring #park #color #green #sleeves #oldnorthknoxville #eyes #0503192024-05-04T02:26:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/03/one-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_22e5dba7-adbb-476f-acb0-0adc08145928.jpgimage_22e5dba7-adbb-476f-acb0-0adc08145928One One raindrop hangs / from one green cherry hanging / on one young tree’s growth. . . #one #cherry #tree #young #raindrop #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #wednesday #050323 #20232024-05-03T23:19:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/03/photo-finish-friday-shade/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_f40affa2-a907-4957-99a7-85295b22db4a.jpgimage_f40affa2-a907-4957-99a7-85295b22db4aShade The spring tree gives shade, / even on a cloudy day, / sometimes from the rain. . . #rain #spring #tree #shade #day #cloudy #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #050324 #20242024-05-03T21:12:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/02/haiku-to-you-thursday-garden/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_5f73db2d-69d9-430b-9cb2-bed9f45f3fd8.jpgimage_5f73db2d-69d9-430b-9cb2-bed9f45f3fd8Garden Plant a garden not / out of love, but forgiveness / and the work it brings. . . #garden #love #forgiveness #work #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #thursday #050224 #042923t #20242024-05-03T03:50:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/05/01/cathedral-folds/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_9f98147d-7d31-4749-9b0a-54e9cbd8dd68.jpgimage_9f98147d-7d31-4749-9b0a-54e9cbd8dd68Cathedral folds Pleasant scent of grapes / within the cathedral folds / of purple Iris. . . #cathedral #folds #pleasant #grapes #iris #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #wednesday #050124 #20242024-05-02T02:54:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/30/planter/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_f8561c99-4c05-446d-b99a-47b60bccb757.jpgimage_f8561c99-4c05-446d-b99a-47b60bccb757Planter Fur, flesh and plastic / the pussycat and the owl / share a green planter. . . #planter #pussycat #owl #fur #flesh #plastic #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #043024 #20242024-05-01T03:14:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/29/heartless/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_bce5b384-8722-44ca-aafa-f309fbbd3bc5.jpgimage_bce5b384-8722-44ca-aafa-f309fbbd3bc5Heartless Dorothy left me / rusting among the flowers. / Heartless beauty. . . #heartless #dorothy #rusting #flowers #beauty #haiga #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #monday #2024 #0427242024-04-30T03:19:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/28/poised/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_a49b2b64-bd7b-46c5-a543-58a82f99dba9.jpgimage_a49b2b64-bd7b-46c5-a543-58a82f99dba9Poised Wide-eyed cat above, poised in a dogwood tree. Icarus waiting. . . #icarus #poised #waiting #cat #dogwood #tree #photo #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #friday #042823 #20232024-04-29T01:42:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/28/hiding/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_2685fcf4-74a1-48d4-a12a-1a8415b7ee09.jpgimage_2685fcf4-74a1-48d4-a12a-1a8415b7ee09Hiding The seed hides in soil / to reveal what it will be / once uncovered. . . #hiding #seed #soil #reveal #uncovered #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #sunday #042824 #20242024-04-29T00:25:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/27/embrace-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_dfef7f06-43d4-49d7-a345-acae44ff020b.jpgimage_dfef7f06-43d4-49d7-a345-acae44ff020bEmbrace Speak not your joys / but embrace them like Iris / touched by morning rain. . . #embrace #speak #joys #morning #rain #iris #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #saturday #042724 #20242024-04-27T21:37:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/26/photo-finish-friday-thief/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_2aedfd10-001a-4514-b9be-2c8ac8cd356a.jpgimage_2aedfd10-001a-4514-b9be-2c8ac8cd356aThief Beside the street, / in a flowering Eden / a snake yanked up Iris. . . #thief #snake #iris #eden #street #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #friday #042624 #20242024-04-26T07:49:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/24/cauldron-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_451f77a9-d474-470d-88b4-8a8fc05d7002.jpgimage_451f77a9-d474-470d-88b4-8a8fc05d7002Cauldron Through the evening sky, / without wings, these cauldrons fly, / roiling, rumbling by. . . #cauldron #sky #fly #wings #roiling #rumbling #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #tennessee #davidebooker #april #sunday #042323 #20232024-04-25T03:52:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/24/bread/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_39312969-f5e3-4512-8937-075196562ef1.jpgimage_39312969-f5e3-4512-8937-075196562ef1Bread Bread baking steps / that step into memories, / guided by the scents. . . #bread #baking #scents #steps #guided #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #daivdebooker #april #wednesday #042424 #20242024-04-25T03:27:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/22/the-road/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_57faaa59-92b2-4400-a57e-4b45b0a95fb6.jpgimage_57faaa59-92b2-4400-a57e-4b45b0a95fb6The road The road less traveled / often becomes forgotten / until the next snow. . . #road #traveled #snow #forgotten #becomes #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #monday #042224 #2024 #011724p2024-04-23T03:17:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/22/earth-day/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_6b0afa82-b5f1-47ac-870c-08cd5db58dc3.jpgimage_6b0afa82-b5f1-47ac-870c-08cd5db58dc3“What is the universe? Space. Out of space came a coagulation that became a nebula, and out of the nebula, millions of galaxies, and within one constellation of galaxies, a sun, with our little planet circling it. Then out of the earth came us, the eyes and the consciousness and the ears and the breathing of the earth itself." - Joseph Campbell #HappyEarthDay2024-04-22T15:49:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/21/rose-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_e126d8de-84ca-4612-b90e-2f727f94dd9e.jpgimage_e126d8de-84ca-4612-b90e-2f727f94dd9eRose I stop and wonder / what religion is the rose, / both fragrance and thorns. . . #rose #wonder #religion #fragrance #thorns #I #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #sunday #042124 #20242024-04-21T22:36:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/20/early/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_175e79fc-fe40-49bc-8e29-e7be58cb9a52.jpgimage_175e79fc-fe40-49bc-8e29-e7be58cb9a52Early Early ripening / tomatoes in the morning / glistening with rain. / . . #early #rain #tomatoes #morning #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #saturday #042024 #20242024-04-21T03:55:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/19/cocoon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_5888d4b5-6b05-40fa-a83d-b3b9641f4577.jpgimage_5888d4b5-6b05-40fa-a83d-b3b9641f4577Cocoon An Iris cocooned / in its purple spire working / to bloom into now. . . #iris #cocoon #bloom #spire #now #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #Friday #041924 #20242024-04-20T02:39:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/19/birthday-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_1077bec8-85d9-425f-abb5-75ba25ebf0f0.jpgimage_1077bec8-85d9-425f-abb5-75ba25ebf0f0Birthday Thinking of you now. / Remembering your roots now. / Flowers bloom in town. . . #now #flowers #thinking #remembering #you #town #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #birthday #041922 #20222024-04-19T18:06:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/18/haiku-to-you-thursday-again/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_74852a08-391d-4c63-8e6a-68b2f90316f2.jpgimage_74852a08-391d-4c63-8e6a-68b2f90316f2Again Tower of purple / bathed in rain. Blooming again / to begin again. . . #again #tower #rain #blooming #begin #bathed #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #041824 #20242024-04-19T02:52:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/15/pluck/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_b26cc155-eeca-4c83-82e1-1bd8e06f28fe.jpgimage_b26cc155-eeca-4c83-82e1-1bd8e06f28fePluck To pluck the sun, / pluck the Iris from the Earth / and leave one more tear. . . #pluck #iris #sun #earth #leave #tear #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #april #monday #041524 #20242024-04-16T02:41:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/15/memory-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_1bdb6725-a547-4429-866d-b0e5e1e6f97f.jpgimage_1bdb6725-a547-4429-866d-b0e5e1e6f97fMemory Red columbine, / shooting star through April rain, / lights my memories. . . #columbine #memory #light #red #shootingstar #april #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photo #friday #041522 #20222024-04-15T14:25:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/14/arrange/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_ea3308f8-f228-40d3-9f4a-a80742b64c1f.jpgimage_ea3308f8-f228-40d3-9f4a-a80742b64c1fArrange Arrange and exchange: / flowers and presents and names – / blooming, wrapped, and loved. . . #arrange #exchange #blooming #wrapped #loved #flowers #presents #names #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #sunday #april #041424 #20242024-04-15T01:50:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/13/blushes/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_472b9a0b-9064-4bd2-83f7-b30cffd58df0.jpgimage_472b9a0b-9064-4bd2-83f7-b30cffd58df0Blushes The Iris blushes / only for the color, not / for embarrassment. . . #iris #blushes #color #embarrassment #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #okdnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #041323 #20232024-04-14T01:51:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/13/iris-wings/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_8d203060-afd5-4430-88f5-fb59f5f6c5ec.jpgimage_8d203060-afd5-4430-88f5-fb59f5f6c5ecIris wings If angels have wings, / none could be more beautiful / than your white Iris. . . #Iris #wings #angels #white #beautiful #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnrthknoxville #davidebooker #april #saturday #2024 #0413242024-04-14T01:20:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/12/flight-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_59c9faf8-7020-4efe-9ddb-536901e0700c.jpgimage_59c9faf8-7020-4efe-9ddb-536901e0700cFlight While in flight / even the ugliest bird / exercises grace. . . #flight #bird #ugliest #grace #exercises #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #wednesday #041223 #20232024-04-13T01:15:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/12/light-gone-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_11e02232-7c7b-46b4-aa4c-877ffc72594e.jpgimage_11e02232-7c7b-46b4-aa4c-877ffc72594eLight gone Light through your window, / early morning, but you’re gone. / No shadow, sun alone. . . #light #window #shadow #sun #morning #alone #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #041222 #20222024-04-12T21:01:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/11/haiku-to-you-thursday-spotted/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_d095e963-53b5-4ef9-ac51-1e0d266e32ec.jpgimage_d095e963-53b5-4ef9-ac51-1e0d266e32ecSpotted Young leaves and shadows. / Tabby cat and spotted sunlight. / Flowers and Spring rain. . . #spotted #tabby #cat #spring #rain #leaves #shadows #flowers #rain #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #041124 #20242024-04-12T02:38:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/11/13569/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_0f39618c-57e6-4d00-a292-ceca62ffe02e.jpgimage_0f39618c-57e6-4d00-a292-ceca62ffe02eChasing Chasing the Spring Dream. / Should I find it, I will pounce. / Might own wing or tail. . . #spring #dream #wing #tail #chasing #cat #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #humor #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #april #monday #041122 #20222024-04-11T21:53:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/10/court-jesters/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_452aeda5-4004-4500-b0de-ca7071633bd4.jpgimage_452aeda5-4004-4500-b0de-ca7071633bd4Court jesters Red columbines weave / hats and bells of court jesters, / dangling wild or tame. . . #court-jesters #columbines #hats #bells #wild #tame #weave #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #wednesday #041024 #20242024-04-11T02:47:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/10/wings-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_49c94256-84a7-4e43-8267-330b8d133d33.jpgimage_49c94256-84a7-4e43-8267-330b8d133d33Wings Wings turned to the sun, / spreading gentle hymns to the light. / Spring songs without words. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #sunlight #wings #hymn #light #song #sun #oldnorthKnoxville #davidebooker #april #satuday #2021 #0410212024-04-10T20:54:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/10/evening-shade-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_9a4a35ef-9b25-4778-8166-94823cd228b0.jpgimage_9a4a35ef-9b25-4778-8166-94823cd228b0Evening shade Sunset orange draped / behind a young pink dogwood. / Evening gray descends. . . #shade #evening #dogwood #pink #gray #orange #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #april #sunday #041022 #20222024-04-10T20:16:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/09/two-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_7af684c2-f1d7-4d14-b35c-c1619292aa63.jpgimage_7af684c2-f1d7-4d14-b35c-c1619292aa63Two Two cherry blossoms / grace a young tree in April. / Will there be fruit soon? . . #two #cherry #blossoms #fruit #young #tree #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #040924 #20242024-04-10T03:15:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/09/spring-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_0f52229b-aa37-4992-9641-b532dfbd2313.jpgimage_0f52229b-aa37-4992-9641-b532dfbd2313Spring Blueberry raindrops / Trickle across April buds / The sun above time. . . #olddnorthknoxville #photo #davidebooker #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #rain #April #2019 #tuesday #sun #blueberry #buds #raindrops #time #0409192024-04-09T19:27:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/09/cartonsday-a-matter-of-perspective/2024-04-09T18:51:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/08/rain-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_479a5987-3feb-4ce3-8b6d-24e50a797117.jpgimage_479a5987-3feb-4ce3-8b6d-24e50a797117Rain Falls the April rain. / Too much or too little rain? / It will be the rain. . . #rain #April #040823 #too #much #little #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #saturday #040823 #20232024-04-09T03:55:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/08/kiss-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_8b0e4219-b48a-4c9b-9a74-74ee2785511f.jpgimage_8b0e4219-b48a-4c9b-9a74-74ee2785511fKiss Deep within spring clouds, / beauty forms and floats away; / born of a rain’s kiss. . . #beauty #born #rain #clouds #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #april #friday #040822 #20222024-04-09T03:10:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/08/eclipse-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_9a3a5c3b-4d5b-4c11-85d8-83921d86479b.jpgimage_9a3a5c3b-4d5b-4c11-85d8-83921d86479bEclipse Standing on my porch, / looking for the eclipse, / obscured by the rain. . . #eclipse #porch #rain #obscured #standing #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #monday #040824 #20242024-04-08T21:35:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/07/veil/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_a22ca051-414e-4e7c-b521-51e662bfc5e7.jpgimage_a22ca051-414e-4e7c-b521-51e662bfc5e7Veil Spring veil of young leaves / weave among the tree’s branches, / shroud the rising sun. . . #veil #leaves #weave #spring #branches #shroud #sun #sunday #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #april #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #2924 #0407242024-04-08T03:41:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/07/buds-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_f41ad17e-b807-4f65-a52e-fb0d87f857db.jpgimage_f41ad17e-b807-4f65-a52e-fb0d87f857dbBuds Buds bloom, regardless, / make promises to no one. / Fruits know not your folly. . . #buds #bloom #fruits #regardless #promises #folly #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #friday #040723 #20232024-04-08T01:36:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/06/bluebells/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_dfb16cee-876c-4bab-948c-998b3cb10926.jpgimage_dfb16cee-876c-4bab-948c-998b3cb10926Bluebells Blossoms fill the Spring, / Carolina bluebells / let your beauty ring. . . #bluebells #blossoms #carolina #beauty #ring #spring #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #saturday #2024 #0406242024-04-07T02:41:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/04/haiku-to-you-thursday-hold/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_084eb063-fb89-417c-a89e-8d0f3d26cce4.jpgimage_084eb063-fb89-417c-a89e-8d0f3d26cce4Hold The vase holds water. / The flowers hold memories. / The heart holds the tears. . . #hold #vase #flowers #memories #water #heart #tears #haiga #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #040524 #20242024-04-05T04:14:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/03/sun-saucers/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_fac50d60-44ae-43d0-a46b-68dd305966d2.jpgimage_fac50d60-44ae-43d0-a46b-68dd305966d2Sun saucers Saucers in the sun, / dogwood bracts open to light, / flutter in the breeze. . . #sun #saucer #dogwood #bract #light #breeze #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #wednesday #040324 #20242024-04-04T04:10:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/04/02/bee/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image_b0d09d28-356e-422d-a81b-26bedaa9743e.jpgimage_b0d09d28-356e-422d-a81b-26bedaa9743eBee Carpenter bee darts / from blueberry bloom to bloom, / does his spring cleaning. . . #bee #blueberry #bloom #darts #spring #cleaning #talltalestogo #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #tuesday #040224 #20242024-04-03T03:25:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/31/unfurls/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_97b6a39d-b677-4d3f-9212-7fd9f49dd8bf.jpgimage_97b6a39d-b677-4d3f-9212-7fd9f49dd8bfUnfurls The writer’s pen curls / around each word, hoping / the true worth unfurls. . . #unfurls #pen #word #worth #writer #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #sunday #033123 #033124 #2024 #true2024-04-01T00:57:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/29/photo-finish-friday-missing-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_7a0d9881-d05d-4c48-a114-52b1232f2f38.jpgimage_7a0d9881-d05d-4c48-a114-52b1232f2f38Missing Beneath the blind sun, / the early blueberries start, / missing your young smile. . . #missing #beneath #sun #smile #blueberries #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #friday #032924 #20242024-03-30T03:57:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/27/ungrasping/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_fc734b99-144c-4a6d-8047-42b6fe379182.jpgimage_fc734b99-144c-4a6d-8047-42b6fe379182Ungrasping Setting sun lets go / leaving to the foolish night / the dark ungrasping. . . #ungrasping #sun #night #foolish #setting #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #wednesday #032724 #032723 #20242024-03-28T02:18:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/26/ponder/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_c92cd3e6-a6fc-4e93-a387-e49eda109418.jpgimage_c92cd3e6-a6fc-4e93-a387-e49eda109418Ponder Rain thumps the round Earth / the Spring clouds pondering — / is this one ripe yet? . . #ponder #rain #clouds #spring #Spring #Earth #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #tuesday #032624 #20242024-03-27T03:33:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/25/buttercups/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_0e454b76-25fa-4db7-87e8-99cbd941d5de.jpgimage_0e454b76-25fa-4db7-87e8-99cbd941d5deButtercups Field of buttercups / posing by First Creek await / the sun to open. . . #buttercups #field #creek #sun #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #monday #032524 #20242024-03-26T03:16:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/22/photo-finish-friday-pollen-pastels/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_ba4eebf3-04bb-4b70-8e17-b27bff013c68.jpgimage_ba4eebf3-04bb-4b70-8e17-b27bff013c68Pollen pastels Pollen pastels paint / Spring across my car window. / Monet hay fever. . . #pollen #pastels #car #window #spring #monet #hayfever #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #friday #032224 #20242024-03-23T03:57:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/21/haiku-to-you-thursday-pastel-dreams/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_beddfe76-073e-446b-97b4-c6ca104a9a6f.jpgimage_beddfe76-073e-446b-97b4-c6ca104a9a6fPastel Dreams The cloud’s pastel dream / of whispers and promises, of spring scents rising. . . #pastel #dream #whispers #promises #spring #scents #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #thursday #032124 #20242024-03-22T02:17:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/19/cane/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_f5b3384b-7e35-46c5-8556-ba55b0589b66.jpgimage_f5b3384b-7e35-46c5-8556-ba55b0589b66Cane Age will find you / a flower in a garden, / a cane in your hand. . . #cane #age #flower #you #garden #hand #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #march #031924 #20242024-03-20T03:58:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/16/wonders-and-shadows/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_ffccdc61-fc77-48b3-a821-0a106183ad4e.jpgimage_ffccdc61-fc77-48b3-a821-0a106183ad4eWonders and shadows Shadows weave in spring / sunlight and serrated leaves / hopes and wonders high. . . #wonders #shadows #hopes #sunlight #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #saturday #031624 #20242024-03-17T03:37:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/15/photo-finish-friday-nave/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_6071159a-4fd7-41b9-b913-8bdd33ece0b6.jpgimage_6071159a-4fd7-41b9-b913-8bdd33ece0b6Nave Above the still street / the nave of empty limbs / long for leaves’ hymns. . . #nave #leaves #hymns #limbs #street #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #friday #031524 #20242024-03-16T00:47:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/14/haiku-to-you-thursday-play/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_579c5904-24d3-4869-8771-e40e2b4c3622.jpgimage_579c5904-24d3-4869-8771-e40e2b4c3622Play Sunlight and shadow / play across the steps and cat, / there and then not there. . . #play #sunlight #shadow #cat #steps #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #thursday #031424 #20242024-03-15T03:41:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/14/ancient-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_919eeac1-3ea6-442e-81f1-c33ea9106019.jpgimage_919eeac1-3ea6-442e-81f1-c33ea9106019Ancient In the ancient sky, / dancing through the fog, the moon, / silently alone. . . #ancient #sky #moon #dancing #fog #silent #alone #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #tuesday #031423 #20232024-03-15T02:28:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/13/hand/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_88bada6c-6757-498c-8ad5-07fde0ae598e.jpgimage_88bada6c-6757-498c-8ad5-07fde0ae598eHand My hand reaches out / casting a grasping shadow / empty in the world. . . #hand #world #shadow #grasping #empty #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #senryu #ildnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #wednesday #031324 #20242024-03-14T03:36:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/12/money/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_d8a242e5-89ca-4d30-8763-ce4a720c9b50.jpgimage_d8a242e5-89ca-4d30-8763-ce4a720c9b50Money With throaty guffaws / the mowers turn winter’s break / into spring money. . . #money #winter #break #spring #guffaws #mowers #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #tuesday #031224 #20242024-03-13T02:30:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/11/carry-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_c548e203-022b-47e0-8709-2425a617fdd5.jpgimage_c548e203-022b-47e0-8709-2425a617fdd5Carry Spring blooms again, / carrying with it those who / can no longer see. . . #carry #spring #blooms #see #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #monday #031124 #20242024-03-11T08:33:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/10/whisper-7/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_86fe4585-18a3-4919-bbf3-837ad13c44f8.jpgimage_86fe4585-18a3-4919-bbf3-837ad13c44f8Whisper Blueberry blooms, / a whisper of white petals, climb toward the heavens. . . #whisper #blueberry #blooms #petals #heavens #climb #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #sunday #031024 #20242024-03-10T05:10:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/08/unfolding-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_9ace4dcd-605a-4847-b8b2-d0c4de67aa9f.jpgimage_9ace4dcd-605a-4847-b8b2-d0c4de67aa9fUnfolding Leaves unfold, napkins / at Spring’s approaching feast / of blackberry delights. . . #unfolding #leaves #napkins #spring #feast #blackberry #delights #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #friday #030824 #20242024-03-09T01:55:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/06/flight-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_a949668b-1d26-4521-b41a-b9e1c8a0dac8.jpgimage_a949668b-1d26-4521-b41a-b9e1c8a0dac8Flight Using borrowed light, / spying into the March night, Moon and dreams take flight. . . #moon #flight #light #night #march #dreams #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #monday #030623 #20232024-03-07T04:54:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/06/passing-through/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_884c6261-c0e8-4bab-995c-c877071a2094.jpgimage_884c6261-c0e8-4bab-995c-c877071a2094Passing through I turn my face up, catching winter like a fool. The rain passes through. . . #passing #through #face #rain #winter #fool #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #wednesday #030624 #20242024-03-07T04:10:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/05/tumbling/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_0a0b6127-90bf-4b9a-9784-081ec7e9c9b9.jpgimage_0a0b6127-90bf-4b9a-9784-081ec7e9c9b9Tumbling Old cat and old thoughts / arrayed on the windy lawn, / with old leaves, tumbling. . . #tumbling #cat #thoughts #old #leaves #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #tuesday #030524 #20242024-03-06T04:17:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/04/young/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_041f21e1-d29b-4f8e-af95-6d08becdffdf.jpgimage_041f21e1-d29b-4f8e-af95-6d08becdffdfYoung Young blackberry leaves / unfold from an old bramble, / lifting both into March. . . #young #blackberry #bramble #leaves #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #onk #davidebooker #march #monday #030424 #20242024-03-05T04:45:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/03/march/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_68f3abf7-1ebf-449a-8ec7-d8e4736836a4.jpgimage_68f3abf7-1ebf-449a-8ec7-d8e4736836a4March Catching the March light, / blueberry buds shed their long sleep, / and embrace Spring’s touch. . . #spring #light #blueberry #buds #sleep #embrace #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #onk #davidebooker #march #sunday #030324 #20242024-03-04T04:35:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/03/im-a-day-late-but-celebrate-it-anyway/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_3b90742d-573d-44f8-be21-3a9dac7fe64b.jpgimage_3b90742d-573d-44f8-be21-3a9dac7fe64b2024-03-04T03:06:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/02/unfold/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_cfdcb97c-be01-42cc-ab4f-90ee526ab728.jpgimage_cfdcb97c-be01-42cc-ab4f-90ee526ab728Unfold Young leaves unfold, / search for the calling sun, / awaken to Spring. . . #leaves #search #sun #spring #awaken #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #onk #davidebooker #march #saturday #030224 #20242024-03-03T04:48:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/03/01/photo-finish-friday-quietly/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image_732d1c85-c748-4f76-88bd-7f2e6e4f9651.jpgimage_732d1c85-c748-4f76-88bd-7f2e6e4f9651Quietly Quietly, he sits, / life among the lifeless limbs, / eyes watching winter. . . #quietly #life #lifeless #eyes #winter #limbs #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #onk #davidebooker #march #friday #030124 #20242024-03-02T03:37:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/29/haiku-to-you-thursday-winter-wind/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_877e6d28-9381-42b9-b004-080ef6cef82d.jpgimage_877e6d28-9381-42b9-b004-080ef6cef82dWinter wind The winter wind roars, / fulsome in its bellowing, / but spring still whispers. . . #winter #wind #bellows #spring #whispers #fulsome #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #february #thursday #022924 #20242024-03-01T04:08:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/28/open-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_0ad24956-ffd6-47e4-8330-3862fdd01eb5.jpgimage_0ad24956-ffd6-47e4-8330-3862fdd01eb5Open Two leaves search for spring. / Rain falls and searches the leaves. / New starts and old ways. . . #leaves #rain #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #february #monday #022822 #20222024-02-29T04:17:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/27/colors-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_f64994ca-c698-46b8-81a9-61f2cff7150a.jpgimage_f64994ca-c698-46b8-81a9-61f2cff7150aColors Yellow and purple / bloom atop green stems / and dead-brown oak leaves. . . #colors #yellow #purple #brown #oak #stems #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #tuesday #022724 #20242024-02-28T04:56:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/25/jingle/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_73f5af2c-ae74-47e1-ae16-3abbeab5261d.jpgimage_73f5af2c-ae74-47e1-ae16-3abbeab5261dJingle Dimes in my pocket / jingle with the promise / of larger chains. . . #jingle #dimes #pocket #promise #chains #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #sunday #022524 #20242024-02-26T04:46:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/25/binding/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_2c2e8121-a93f-43fe-bd50-7d35848c4163.jpgimage_2c2e8121-a93f-43fe-bd50-7d35848c4163Binding The oppressing hand / Binds through fear and not respect / Embraces your hate. . . #davidebooker #mind #truth #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #writer #poet #february #sunday #2019 #hand #oppressing #fear #hate #binds #voltaire #rules #0224192024-02-26T02:20:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/23/photo-finish-friday-hearsay/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_f154da74-8a43-4a59-aea6-27fa2aa5a205.jpgimage_f154da74-8a43-4a59-aea6-27fa2aa5a205Hearsay A lattice of limbs, / a cluttering of night clouds, / a hearsay of the moon. . . #hearsay #moon #clouds #cluttering #lattice #limbs #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #friday #022324 #20242024-02-24T04:47:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/22/haiku-to-you-thursday-time/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_68c799a6-bbbc-4c51-9d05-416591198601.jpgimage_68c799a6-bbbc-4c51-9d05-416591198601Time Sunlight knows no time. / Yet, it highlights the jonquil / that will soon be gone. . . #time #sunlight #jonquil #highlights #gone #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #thursday #022224 #20242024-02-23T03:42:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/21/veining/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_7dc58226-6cff-44a8-9d0f-c848dea2d335.jpgimage_7dc58226-6cff-44a8-9d0f-c848dea2d335Veining Veining across the wall / shadows of a struggling plant, / weaving toward Spring’s heart. . . #veining #wall #shadows #plant #weaving #spring #hearot #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #wednesday #february #022124 #20242024-02-22T04:50:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/20/unbidden-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_abbe9f42-082c-4473-b30f-b7198322a912.jpgimage_abbe9f42-082c-4473-b30f-b7198322a912Unbidden Unbidden, Spring blooms, / poking through neglect and pain, / yellow and graceful. . . #spring #blooms #yellow #neglect #pain #graceful #haiku #poem #poetry #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #february #sunday #022022 #20222024-02-21T04:55:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/20/waves-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_5dbb7bb9-055e-460e-abcd-53e6610fa585.jpgimage_5dbb7bb9-055e-460e-abcd-53e6610fa585Waves Waves in the water, / waves in the sky, waves hello, / and waves goodbye. . . #waves #hello #water #sky #goodbye #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #monday #022023 #20232024-02-21T04:45:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/19/hints-and-whispers/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_660a608f-712b-4dce-9576-14a8c55c419d.jpgimage_660a608f-712b-4dce-9576-14a8c55c419dHints and whispers Shadows and poems / whisper to walls and papers / hints of greater worlds. . . #hints #whispers #shadows #poems #walls #papers #worlds #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #monday #2024 #0219242024-02-20T04:55:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/19/delight/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_ab65c7bc-8cf0-47e2-b9a4-b06fc8ee4ac6.jpgimage_ab65c7bc-8cf0-47e2-b9a4-b06fc8ee4ac6Delight Early crocus bloom / embracing February / with lover’s delight. . . #delight #lover #crocus #bloom #february #embracing #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #sunday #021824 #20242024-02-19T05:02:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/18/gone-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_294f6be3-6501-4419-8d78-69f839f297d5.jpgimage_294f6be3-6501-4419-8d78-69f839f297d5Gone The road, the clouds, the wires / point to horizons gone / from your moments here. . . #horizons #road #clouds #wires #gonetoosoon #moments #haiku #senryu #photo #poem #poetry #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #february #friday #021822 #20222024-02-19T02:37:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/18/life-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_1177bd6f-b37a-4e1a-8907-e2a3b6142a0d.jpgimage_1177bd6f-b37a-4e1a-8907-e2a3b6142a0dLife Life is sorrowful / But fool that I truly am / I love you, always. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #josephcampbell #life #sorrowful #love #fool #davidebooker #february #thursday #2021 #0218212024-02-19T02:08:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/17/write/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_d895fd2a-cb90-42a5-9879-3336bb839b73.jpgimage_d895fd2a-cb90-42a5-9879-3336bb839b73Write Unopened jonquils. / A small field of new pencils, / ready to write spring. . . #jonquils #field #pencils #write #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #Saturday #021724 #20242024-02-18T04:26:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/17/grabbing-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_3236f790-f7bd-46e1-ba3b-49127e631b63.jpgimage_3236f790-f7bd-46e1-ba3b-49127e631b63Grabbing Bare limbs grab at Moon, / fingers clutching through night fog. / My ghost escapes hope. . . #night #limbs #fingers #moon #fog #ghost #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #february #thursday #021722 #20222024-02-18T01:41:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/16/photo-finish-friday-path/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_85da4120-0ab1-40be-acd1-75be17a65823.jpgimage_85da4120-0ab1-40be-acd1-75be17a65823Path I find no jonquils. / My path is barren and dark. / Even the sun hides. . . #path #jonquils #sun #hides #barren #dark #I #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #friday #021624 #20242024-02-17T04:44:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/16/in-the-wind-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_fdb2fccf-bdb2-4902-bebf-9c4bbfcfa065.jpgimage_fdb2fccf-bdb2-4902-bebf-9c4bbfcfa065In the wind Wind muscles the clouds. / Stripped limbs reflect off windows, / dancing in the past. . . #wind #clouds #limbs #windows #muscles #haiku #pome #poetry #photo #davidebooker #talltalestogo #february #wednesday #021622 #20222024-02-16T21:34:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/15/haiku-to-you-thursday-fake/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_2413594c-d4cf-4075-a47b-9b2451c2821e.jpgimage_2413594c-d4cf-4075-a47b-9b2451c2821eFake Fake flag on a branch, / plastic bag snaps in the wind. / Faux pas forever. . . #fake #faux #plastic #bag #wind #branch #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #thursday #021524 #20242024-02-16T04:38:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/14/valentines-day-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_4048795f-0bda-4b9c-ad49-00589d2206ed.jpgimage_4048795f-0bda-4b9c-ad49-00589d2206edValentine’s Day On Valentine’s Day, / the sun shines on Beth’s table / and memories dine. . . #memories #dine #beth #table #vakentinesday #senryu #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #february #monday #021422 #20222024-02-15T04:44:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/14/haiku-to-you-thursday-lenten-rose/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_6a031027-1a44-4c9e-98ff-87a12f302ca5.jpgimage_6a031027-1a44-4c9e-98ff-87a12f302ca5Lenten rose Lenten rose, monk / in Nature’s cathedral, / bows its head in thanks. . . #lenten #rose #monk #cathedral #head #thanks #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #thursday #021424 #20242024-02-15T03:31:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/13/gray/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_bdd144dc-6ad5-435c-bccd-e3485a633771.jpgimage_bdd144dc-6ad5-435c-bccd-e3485a633771Gray Gray upon gray, / clouds ghost a morning sky: / winter trees silhouette. . . #gray #winter #clouds #trees #silhouette #ghost #sky #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #tuesday #021324 #20242024-02-14T03:26:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/12/rainbow/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_991f42e5-305c-4028-a37e-5eceddd3ef3d.jpgimage_991f42e5-305c-4028-a37e-5eceddd3ef3dRainbow See the pale rainbow / arc February’s sky: / thinly there, then gone. . . #rainbow #pale #sky #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #monday #021224 #20242024-02-13T02:09:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/11/nestled/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_362d0294-5fbd-421e-8a4e-f51cfc1e4339.jpgimage_362d0294-5fbd-421e-8a4e-f51cfc1e4339Nestled Nestled in the crotch / of the blueberry vine new life / grows out toward spring. . . #nestled #blueberry #spring #vine #crotch #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #sunday #021124 #20242024-02-12T04:07:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/10/soup/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_a2a71a2e-ff52-4bfb-b472-62173123da71.jpgimage_a2a71a2e-ff52-4bfb-b472-62173123da71Soup On a rainy night, / I create broccoli cheese soup / from your recipe / and for a moment I am / listening to you, again. . . #soup #broccoli #cheese #night #recipe #you #listening #tanka #waga #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #saturday #021024 #0204242024-02-11T03:01:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/09/promises-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_54a0b6c3-ede5-4b22-bb48-e42bcef1ae69.jpgimage_54a0b6c3-ede5-4b22-bb48-e42bcef1ae69Promises Once upon a time / the fairy tale promises. / If only it were true. . . #time #fairy #tale #true #promises #once #photo #beth #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #cancer #davidebooker #february #thursday #020923 #20232024-02-10T04:39:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/09/daikon-radish/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_c28e4f11-c84b-47ce-bd42-6d9a4ef60838.jpgimage_c28e4f11-c84b-47ce-bd42-6d9a4ef60838Daikon radish My Daikon radish Points to a fetish. It’s a bit raffish Lying there. It’s a vegetable That I’ll tell you To dispel you Of notions there. Its shape suggests That it’s erectile blessed And why I guessed That you stared. But rest assured Your point’s absurd. There’s no aphrodisiac curd Made the Daikon way. . . #poem #poetry #rhyming #humor #radish #Daikon #aphrodisiacfoods #aphrodisiac #fetish #february #sunday #2020 #vegetables #davidebooker #photo #wintermarket #knoxville #tennessee #0209202024-02-10T02:56:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/08/haiku-to-you-thursday-goodbye/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_f23b9da0-c676-45e6-a51a-21278ede5c55.jpgimage_f23b9da0-c676-45e6-a51a-21278ede5c55Goodbye Goodbye, old guitar, / instrument of my once youth. / May you bring new joy. . . #goodbye #guitar #instrument #youth #joy #old #photo #haiga #haiku #piem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #thursday #020824 #20242024-02-09T03:56:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/07/cold-moon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_fd732f1c-b0f7-47d1-9d03-cd46c50551b2.jpgimage_fd732f1c-b0f7-47d1-9d03-cd46c50551b2Cold moon A cold moon crosses / an evening that stretches / through the sky and years. . . #cold #moon #evening #stretches #sky #years #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #wednesday #020724 #20242024-02-08T01:10:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/05/luck/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_a7b1eff7-b345-409d-9cb7-6b41f60cae46.jpgimage_a7b1eff7-b345-409d-9cb7-6b41f60cae46Luck Luck is a cat / showing you his belly. / Touch at your peril. . . #luck #cat #belly #peril #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #monday #020524 #20242024-02-06T03:17:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/02/photo-finish-friday-guarding/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_4f48b151-96ae-4b87-9a8f-15d2916b69b2.jpgimage_4f48b151-96ae-4b87-9a8f-15d2916b69b2Guarding The small dog stares / through the balusters of the stairs, / eyes guarding the night. . . #dog #stares #stairs #balusters #eyes #night #guard #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #friday #020224 #20242024-02-03T03:35:30+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/02/the-thought-fox-by-ted-hughes/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_61f96b3e-9597-471e-9261-1f847f4c8e60.jpg"The Thought-Fox" by Ted Hughes"The Thought-Fox" by Ted Hughes2024-02-03T00:56:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/01/waiting-9/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_655f1ee4-93ae-4d58-a156-bfa8d2b1c009.jpgimage_655f1ee4-93ae-4d58-a156-bfa8d2b1c009Waiting Waiting … waiting … / How long will she remember? / Waiting … waiting … . . #waiting #long #remember #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #wednesday #020123 #20232024-02-02T04:56:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/02/01/haiku-to-you-thursday-dandelion-love/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image_e02f169b-422d-474a-91bd-2b18317ba8f2.jpgimage_e02f169b-422d-474a-91bd-2b18317ba8f2Dandelion love It survived the snow, / ten inches, and frigid nights: / dandelion love. . . #dandelion #love #snow #nights #inches #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #february #thursday #020124 #20242024-02-02T01:33:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/31/up-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_e3a6771b-ddc8-4698-94de-9aeb72df8703.jpgimage_e3a6771b-ddc8-4698-94de-9aeb72df8703Up Up the Magnolia / the executioner climbs: / chipper growls below. . . #013124 #up #executioner #magnolia #chipper #growls #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #wednesday #013124 #20242024-02-01T03:23:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/31/photo/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_b77a5432-83f0-48a8-b365-490716cfc09e.jpgimage_b77a5432-83f0-48a8-b365-490716cfc09ePhoto Within the photo, / I find your eyes and all the / memories I hold. . . #photo #eyes #memories #senryu #haiku #poem #poetry #beth #davidebooker #january #friday #012723 #20232024-02-01T01:53:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/31/ride-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_de7dc9e6-13e0-47d1-b0d6-dbf434407af0.jpgimage_de7dc9e6-13e0-47d1-b0d6-dbf434407af0Ride Sunlight rides the ridge, / fading into evening as / headlights ride the road. . . #sunlight #headlights #evening #ridge #road #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #tuesday #013123 #20232024-01-31T10:17:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/30/ode-to-chocolate/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_380485da-f007-4068-8842-447f7c21c1fd.jpgimage_380485da-f007-4068-8842-447f7c21c1fdToday is National Chocolate Cake Day and National Inane Answering Message Day or NIAD (Nigh-Add) for short. So, go have a piece or two or chocolate cake and record this on your voicemail: “I had cake. It was great. Leave a message and I may relate. Vanilla's fine. Strawberry, too. But chocolate's the only one that'll do. Chocolate cake and chocolate frosting. Chocolate from beginning to topping. Leave a message after the beep, Unless you're a salesman or some beep-beep creep."2024-01-31T02:55:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/29/cat-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_a82d9e20-7a44-4e9b-9114-efafc990067b.jpgimage_a82d9e20-7a44-4e9b-9114-efafc990067bCat Cat curled on a bench, / gray fur against gray stone. / Gray winter surrounds. . . #cat #bench #gray #fur #stone #winter #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #monday #012924 #20242024-01-30T03:34:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/29/web/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_c122f84e-8ca6-4c93-af6c-38f4118f9b98.jpgimage_c122f84e-8ca6-4c93-af6c-38f4118f9b98Web Tangled web of limbs / bare beneath a shrouded moon / full, with winter dreams. . . #web #winter #dreams #limbs #empty #moon #full #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #january #sunday #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #012824 #20242024-01-29T14:57:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/28/beauty-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_e6df7224-5ccd-4769-b25f-cb400e1b7b0f.jpgimage_e6df7224-5ccd-4769-b25f-cb400e1b7b0fBeauty An old bud withered. / A young bud might not bear fruit. / Still, beauty lived. . . #bud #withered #fruit #beauty #old #young #lived #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #012823 #20232024-01-29T01:47:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/27/ragged/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_850bbb0a-395a-42a6-b772-2db3ca990ea1.jpgimage_850bbb0a-395a-42a6-b772-2db3ca990ea1Ragged Pile of dirty snow. Once was a beauty, but no. Ragged dreams let go. . . #ragged #dreams #snow #beauty #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #knoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #012723 #20232024-01-28T04:50:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/26/photo-finish-friday-homeless/2024-01-27T04:29:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/25/haiku-to-you-thursday-bristles/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_bb3d454f-e505-45d1-a7c9-db4dbe901dfa.jpgimage_bb3d454f-e505-45d1-a7c9-db4dbe901dfaBristles Bristles in ice / rattled like bones, but could not / sweep winter aside. . . #bristles #bones #winter #sweep #ice #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #thursday #012524 #20242024-01-26T04:18:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/23/round/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_73683132-55b9-4fe1-8a6a-93b6a7329ec3.jpgimage_73683132-55b9-4fe1-8a6a-93b6a7329ec3Round Round as the seasons. / Round as beginning to end. / Round, my thoughts of you. . . #round #seasons #beginning #end #thoughts #you #haiku #senryu #haiga #photo #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #tuesday #012324 #20242024-01-25T22:08:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/24/atlas/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_81543d5e-89d8-43a1-ae48-4c37d3c12b81.jpgimage_81543d5e-89d8-43a1-ae48-4c37d3c12b81Atlas Bare limbs, Atlas’ arms, / hold mammotocumulus / heavy with winter. . . #mammatocumulus #winter #limbs #atlas #arms #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #thursday #012424 #20242024-01-25T04:44:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/24/fire-far-away/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_30f12097-1f37-4f60-9dbe-3ad181ce0b67.jpgimage_30f12097-1f37-4f60-9dbe-3ad181ce0b67Fire far away Sky fire far away / beckons a tired winter day. / Eternity rests. . . #sky #fire #eternity #winter #beckons #haiku #poem #poetry #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #monday #2022 #0124222024-01-24T17:42:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/22/let-us-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_344421c4-8c1a-4d0a-baf8-9482b9b9f71b.jpgimage_344421c4-8c1a-4d0a-baf8-9482b9b9f71bLet us Let us ride balloons: / Up to the heavens and moons. / Light as grace and stars. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #balloons #moons #heavens #light #grace #stars #photooftheday #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #knoxville #tennessee #friday #2021 #0122212024-01-23T03:34:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/22/sitting/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_13d71801-092f-40ca-8795-9440581a863f.jpgimage_13d71801-092f-40ca-8795-9440581a863fSitting Snow sits in your chair, / surveys your sleeping garden, / Sad it will miss spring. . . #snow #garden #sad #winter #spring #sitting #sleeping #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #tuesday #2022 #0118222024-01-23T02:04:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/22/sign-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_13551a11-5387-49fe-a84a-15c7d66c9358.jpgimage_13551a11-5387-49fe-a84a-15c7d66c9358Sign Don’t stop at the sign. / Travel on beyond the wires. / Your horizon waits. . . #sign #travel #wires #horizon #beyond #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #sunday #012223 #20232024-01-22T14:49:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/21/curtain/2024-01-22T04:27:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/21/remembrance/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_5e353a02-cdf9-4e0a-8144-19179cbd0b72.jpgimage_5e353a02-cdf9-4e0a-8144-19179cbd0b72Remembrance When you reach the end / there’s a sign. Not an exit, / but in remembrance. . . #remembrance #end #sign #noexit #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #friday #2022 #0121222024-01-21T23:33:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/20/dangling/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_be920b0d-4c50-4cd3-8aa7-7b7586f7d459.jpgimage_be920b0d-4c50-4cd3-8aa7-7b7586f7d459Dangling Watch the sun withdraw / as the icicles grow long: / dangling winter’s night. . . #dangling #sun #icicles #winter #night #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #jenniferlubke #january #saturday #012024 #20242024-01-21T03:31:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/19/photo-finish-friday-embrace-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_285ccc1f-aed9-43f0-9ad6-d571406cda20.jpgimage_285ccc1f-aed9-43f0-9ad6-d571406cda20Embrace Winter’s white embrace / reflected in and on / a car’s cold window. . . #winter #embrace #reflected #car #window #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #friday #011924 #20242024-01-20T03:02:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/18/haiku-to-you-thursday-ghost/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_64f604e6-48c8-407a-9b3f-30efb664dd8c.jpgimage_64f604e6-48c8-407a-9b3f-30efb664dd8cGhost A ghost of summer, / a coneflower in winter, / brittle stalk and day. . . #ghost #coneflower #summer #winter #stalk #day #haiga #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #photo #davidebooker #january #thursday #011824 #20242024-01-19T02:38:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/17/tin-man/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_ba3c956c-277a-47e4-b97c-5ce283172008.jpgimage_ba3c956c-277a-47e4-b97c-5ce283172008Tin man Tin man lost his head. / Gave his heart to Dorothy, / who never came back. . . #tin #man #head #dorothy #lost #heart #head #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #wednesday #011724 #20242024-01-17T22:06:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/17/one-of-these-days-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_c9cf827c-ba1f-47d1-b74c-3938bb34d629.jpgimage_c9cf827c-ba1f-47d1-b74c-3938bb34d629One of these days Oh tree, my tree, Please hide me. I want to stay Away today. I don’t want work Nor stupid jerks To come my way. I want to be By my little tree And fill my my days With poetry. Oh tree, little tree Stand by me. Please, please Hide me. . . #011723 #tree #work #jerk #hide #days #please #poetry #rhyming #january #tuesday #davidebooker2024-01-17T19:19:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/17/looking-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_a7c0d8b3-4443-424c-9db5-dd40a710694f.jpgimage_a7c0d8b3-4443-424c-9db5-dd40a710694fLooking Looking backward / No one remembers the rain / Only the hammers. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #january #2019 #thursday #rain #hammer #davidebooker #remember #backward #looking #0117192024-01-17T05:17:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/16/inner-seeds/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_336bb935-7d95-4b66-91f4-743f9d2c066c.jpgimage_336bb935-7d95-4b66-91f4-743f9d2c066cInner seeds Cancer is Winter: / Hard on the outer shell / Opens inner seeds. . . #haiku #january #2019 #poem #poetry #writing #writer #cancer #winter #shell #seeds #quilt #inner #outer #0103192024-01-16T19:25:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/15/snow/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_2ba133a9-e166-4a94-bb3b-f5049a830b10.jpgimage_2ba133a9-e166-4a94-bb3b-f5049a830b102024-01-16T03:45:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/14/turning-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_8b2a9255-055d-4caa-8f4e-635734a710a0.jpgimage_8b2a9255-055d-4caa-8f4e-635734a710a0Turning Winter sky reflects / in glass and in clouds: wonder, / pain, weather, and blue. . . #winter #sky #refection #clouds #wonder #glass #pain #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #december #thursday #123021 #20212024-01-15T04:27:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/14/morning-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_94700e45-5585-491b-b1b2-304d91fea48b.jpgimage_94700e45-5585-491b-b1b2-304d91fea48bMorning Snow and yellow sun / Hurl white into the morning. / Touched by morning blue. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #yellow #white #blue #snow #morning #winter #hurl #photooftheday #touch #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #december #knoxville #tennessee #friday #2020 #1226202024-01-15T03:51:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/14/shapes-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_7e4dc5dc-9db5-40ce-924a-5a7db5067d44.jpgimage_7e4dc5dc-9db5-40ce-924a-5a7db5067d44Shapes Fog enters the night, / swirls around with damp delight, / obscures the cold light. . . #shapes #light #delight #night #fog #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #sunday #011424 #011318p #20242024-01-14T05:22:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/13/glass-sun/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_c5e8ae37-07c4-4ae7-9398-9d0ca82a2fb1.jpgimage_c5e8ae37-07c4-4ae7-9398-9d0ca82a2fb1Glass sun The molten glass sun / Oozes fire along day’s edge. / Cooling into night. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #poet #writer #oldnorthknoxville #evening #fire #molten #glass #sunday #january #2019 #day #night #tennessee #knoxville #photo #davidebooker #0113192024-01-13T18:20:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/12/photo-finish-friday-whispers/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_84a191e4-7ac4-48d4-a3c0-5ff4a24eecbc.jpgimage_84a191e4-7ac4-48d4-a3c0-5ff4a24eecbcWhispers Beneath my tired cane, / the floor whispers its beauty / to the soles passing. . . #whispers #soles #floor #cane #beauty #passing #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #jaunary #friday #011224 #20242024-01-13T04:57:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/11/haiku-to-you-thursday-sometimes-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_5060dfb8-22a3-4291-8005-40c11376d070.jpgimage_5060dfb8-22a3-4291-8005-40c11376d070Sometimes I hold you now / in memories high as clouds — / sometimes just as thin. . . #sometimes #memories #thin #clouds #hold #photo #haiga #haiku #poem #poetry #knoxville #davidebooker #january #thursday #011124 #20242024-01-12T04:24:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/10/light-drips/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_3272f364-a65b-498b-9f33-1bb4675fa877.jpgimage_3272f364-a65b-498b-9f33-1bb4675fa877Light drips The sun flows beyond the horizon and the day’s light drips into dreams. . . #light #sun #dreams #horizon #day #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #wednesday #011024 #011013 #010918photo2024-01-11T04:39:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/10/sky-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_84ac24e1-e691-4f66-a3cb-12c9cc028957.jpgimage_84ac24e1-e691-4f66-a3cb-12c9cc028957Sky Fire in the winter: / Sky ablaze behind storm clouds. / Earth in shadow waits. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #writer #2019 #january #clouds #winter #earth #sky #light #fire #thursday #shadow #011019 #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #haiga2024-01-11T02:24:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/09/unlatched/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_0f34652b-cc2f-46e1-822b-342c4fed5427.jpgimage_0f34652b-cc2f-46e1-822b-342c4fed5427Unlatched Unlatched gate swings free. / Raindrops dangle from the bar. / Winter wind whistles. . . #unlatched #winter #wind #gate #raindrops #bar #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #010924 #20242024-01-10T04:21:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/08/lines-and-light/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_43db0dc3-e8cb-4fe0-be46-399c9caf71c0.jpgimage_43db0dc3-e8cb-4fe0-be46-399c9caf71c0Lines and light New lines and old light, / waiting room blinds shadowing / a framed winter’s morn. . . #lines #light #waiting #blinds #winter #morn #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #knoxville #davidebooker #january #monday #010824 #20242024-01-09T00:56:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/05/promises-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_2fda596a-0abe-45c9-b2db-d50cd4b43f75.jpgimage_2fda596a-0abe-45c9-b2db-d50cd4b43f75Promises New Year’s promises / leak and give way / like a rusted pipe. . . #promises #rusted #pipe #newyear #leak #poem #poetry #happynewyear #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #friday #0105242024-01-05T13:20:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/05/morning-light-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_cf341ff4-e78c-4a70-bb99-cc122bda0a37.jpgimage_cf341ff4-e78c-4a70-bb99-cc122bda0a37Morning light Morning light moves night, / Shining from kitchen and sky. / Horizons await. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #night #morning #light #kitchen #sky #horizon #oldnorthknoxville #photooftheday #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #january #monday #2021 #0104212024-01-05T10:13:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/04/held/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_ff496aa6-56b4-4662-9d21-c40f8f4cc285.jpgimage_ff496aa6-56b4-4662-9d21-c40f8f4cc285Held Held frozen in ice, / an old oak leaf embalmed by / water and time. . . #held #leaf #oak #water #ice #time #photo #haiga #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #wednesday #010324 #20242024-01-04T05:02:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/03/weather-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_db279315-2466-4e5f-8b50-e4c66fd4f797.jpgimage_db279315-2466-4e5f-8b50-e4c66fd4f797Weather Sky climbs the ladder, / reaches the morning rooftop, / and sings quiet blues. . . #ladder #sky #climbs #blue #rooftop #morning #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #january #saturday #010122 #20222024-01-04T03:52:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/02/toll/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_003354cb-7718-41ee-b4cc-405c91ba5cb9.jpgimage_003354cb-7718-41ee-b4cc-405c91ba5cb9Toll Winter takes its toll: / leaves crunch, sun fades, memories / fill the dark longing. . . #toll #winter #leaves #sun #memories #longing #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #tuesday #010224 #20242024-01-03T05:08:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2024/01/02/still/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image_4f1ea57f-1eae-4fe9-bb9a-d39292c795bb.jpgimage_4f1ea57f-1eae-4fe9-bb9a-d39292c795bbStill The dog still wonders / and, quietly, so do I. / You are not alone. . . #still #dog #wonders #alone #I #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #tuesday #0102242024-01-02T05:23:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/31/new-years-eve-2019/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_96fbdf68-fdbb-44c1-9486-28efecb2b601.jpgimage_96fbdf68-fdbb-44c1-9486-28efecb2b601New Year’s Eve 2019 Tomorrow somewhere / a New Year has begun. Here / the old treatments linger. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #cancer #writing #writer #davidebooker #newyear #treatment #linger #tomorrow #knoxville #tennessee #thompsoncancersurvivalcenter #tuesday #2019 #1231192024-01-01T04:49:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/31/guardians/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_4871f60d-4ac2-4e4d-852b-8b9c08a3ac9b.jpgimage_4871f60d-4ac2-4e4d-852b-8b9c08a3ac9bGuardians Goats at the doorway. / Cardinals at the window. / Jazz wafts from within. . . #jazz #goats #cardinals #doorway #jazz #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #knoxville #davidebooker #december #sunday #123123 #20232023-12-31T05:47:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/30/remembering-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_5a36058d-ca12-4331-a46b-cf3605941f38.jpgimage_5a36058d-ca12-4331-a46b-cf3605941f38“As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.” AS I KNEW HIM: My Dad Rod Serling https://www.amazon.com/As-Knew-Him-Dad-Serling/dp/080653673X2023-12-31T02:47:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/30/turning/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_0ab1d60e-66ac-4459-a22b-0a44da7c2d0c.jpgimage_0ab1d60e-66ac-4459-a22b-0a44da7c2d0cTurning Winter sky reflects / in glass and in clouds: wonder, / pain, weather, and blue. . . #winter #sky #refection #clouds #wonder #glass #pain #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #december #thursday #123021 #20212023-12-31T02:23:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/29/photo-finish-friday-reflection-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_c4a8f527-effb-44a1-9bad-cf28165c2c71.jpgimage_c4a8f527-effb-44a1-9bad-cf28165c2c71Reflection Upon reflection, / I am what I am not. / The mirror breaks. . . #122923 #2023 #reflection #I #mirror #breaks #haiga #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #december #friday2023-12-30T02:53:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/27/one-4/2023-12-28T04:00:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/27/drink-the-green/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_f3f5b8f7-b771-4723-ab66-5230878aeaba.jpgimage_f3f5b8f7-b771-4723-ab66-5230878aeabaDrink the green If the red runs out, drink the green, though the green can be quite mean. Served at room temp or a little warmer, it is said to make you adore the former. It will drive you out into the day, groping, hoping to get away from awfulness in your mouth that tastes like a mouse gone south. . . #122523 #poem # humor #holidays #christmas #davidebooker2023-12-27T19:01:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/26/embrace-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_780dbe9e-fe6a-46a0-8ca2-2c9ec08a8bf1.jpgimage_780dbe9e-fe6a-46a0-8ca2-2c9ec08a8bf1Embrace Light inside the bend, / Moon in the crook of its branch. / Tree embraces night. . . #embrace #moon #night #light #branch #tree #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #tuesday #122623 #20232023-12-27T02:20:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/25/new/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_6c1d1e8e-2c00-4adc-a513-1d8fe648f907.jpgimage_6c1d1e8e-2c00-4adc-a513-1d8fe648f907New New is the wonder / of moments as an old leaf / travels down the stream. . . #new #leaf #travel #stream #wonder #moments #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #monday #122523 #20232023-12-26T04:52:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/24/book-him-dan-o/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_b31ead56-c646-4734-b2d0-3477ae8f6cfd.jpgimage_b31ead56-c646-4734-b2d0-3477ae8f6cfd2023-12-24T15:23:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/23/watchful/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_85098f96-b520-49a5-a743-bde3dc07b974.jpgimage_85098f96-b520-49a5-a743-bde3dc07b974Watchful Watch as night gathers. / The moon and clouds coalesce. / Fears and dreams do, too. . . #watch #fears #dreams #moon #clouds #night #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #saturday #2023 #1223232023-12-24T04:52:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/22/photo-finish-friday-stale-fortune/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_e7ac5be5-012a-44e4-9b85-6b954bcb5132.jpgimage_e7ac5be5-012a-44e4-9b85-6b954bcb5132Stale fortune Fortune cookie says: / disregard all other fortunes. / Cookie tastes stale. . . #stale #fortune #cookie #disregard #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #friday #122223 #20232023-12-22T05:18:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/21/solstice-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_a1567b2c-311e-4811-a341-d98f02659a6c.jpgimage_a1567b2c-311e-4811-a341-d98f02659a6cSolstice Winter loves slowly. / Its long shadows stretch like life / compactly marooned. . . #live #love #winter #marooned #shadows #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #december #tuesday #2021 #1221212023-12-22T04:45:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/18/uninhibited-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_d1d33d2c-7d9a-42c0-91d2-52d421a65c09.jpgimage_d1d33d2c-7d9a-42c0-91d2-52d421a65c09Uninhibited Uninhibited, / I write on the water. / I paint on the sky. . . #uninhibited #write #water #paint #sky # poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #december #monday #121823 #20232023-12-19T04:55:13+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/17/captured/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_2cfc47e7-1203-4210-af98-c95b95d107f7.jpgimage_2cfc47e7-1203-4210-af98-c95b95d107f7Captured Captured in ice, / the dead oak leaves shimmer, / captured by the sun. . . #captured #ice #oak #leaves #shimmer #sun #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #saturday #121623 #20232023-12-17T05:08:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/15/haiku-to-you-thursday-one-eyed-car/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_f5660cb6-e2b1-4780-8c11-149dc7a3daac.jpgimage_f5660cb6-e2b1-4780-8c11-149dc7a3daacOne-eyed car Bare limbs embrace the full spectrum of evening and the one-eyed car . . #121423 #oneeyed #car #bare #limbs #evening #spectrum #poem #embrace #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #thursday #20232023-12-15T05:03:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/13/waves-goodbye/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_66e7f5e1-634e-4dae-b446-a4e2a505be96.jpgimage_66e7f5e1-634e-4dae-b446-a4e2a505be96Waves goodbye Elvis in your pocket, / sky in your heart, you ride / light’s abandoned waves. . . #waves #elvis #pocket #sky #heart #quest #photo #poem #poetry #haiga #haiku #devember #davidebooker #knoxville #070223 #december #wednesday #121323 #20232023-12-14T02:33:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/13/shadow-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_f606e111-a8db-4d8d-b225-0e7208a8c71a.jpgimage_f606e111-a8db-4d8d-b225-0e7208a8c71aShadow The dead leaf’s shadow / reflects from the bottom / of a pool of air. . . #shadow #dead #leaf #reflect #pool #air #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #knoxville #davidebooker #december #tuesday #121223 #20232023-12-13T05:03:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/12/infinite-fires/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_6f80ffb9-797f-4f57-9462-2a295f04a7d1.jpgimage_6f80ffb9-797f-4f57-9462-2a295f04a7d1Infinite fires Rain reflects the / infinite fires of evening: / puddles are liquid glass. . . #infinite #fires #rain #glass #liquid #evening #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #monday #2023 #1211232023-12-12T05:01:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/11/moments-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_a9fcd12a-8ebb-4241-a597-5b1e987a33d4.jpgimage_a9fcd12a-8ebb-4241-a597-5b1e987a33d4Moments Colors riot through / a December morning sky: / touching but not touched. . . #riot #color #morning #sky #touched #untouched #photo #poem #haiku #poetry #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #december #saturday #2021 #1211212023-12-12T03:57:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/11/sundown/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_f538ab86-72cc-42ff-9f2a-f838381920bf.jpgimage_f538ab86-72cc-42ff-9f2a-f838381920bfSundown December sundown — / wave and particle decline: / flag, facades, and clouds. . . #sundown #december #flag #facade #clouds #wave #particle #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #sunday #121023 #20232023-12-11T05:00:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/10/darkness/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_8c6f307e-0d2c-4987-8439-0151aa805057.jpgimage_8c6f307e-0d2c-4987-8439-0151aa805057Darkness Evening autumn sky: / broken rainbow oozes forth from / a cold horizon. . . #rainbow #autumn #evening #horizon #broken #ooze #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #december #friday #2021 #1210212023-12-11T02:34:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/09/cranes/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_deffde3e-85ae-4534-85db-0b1e7ac8ab02.jpgimage_deffde3e-85ae-4534-85db-0b1e7ac8ab02Cranes Handmade paper cranes / twirl beneath the ceiling fan. / Gift and giver live. . . #cranes #handmade #paper #fan #gift #giver #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #saturday #120923 #20232023-12-10T04:55:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/09/rain-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_065f470e-ede8-4751-bb58-a095ecf50a4a.jpgimage_065f470e-ede8-4751-bb58-a095ecf50a4aRain His heart falling, / old man at the corner / of the sky, crying. . . #man #old #heart #corner #sky #rain #crying #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #thursday #120822 #20222023-12-09T05:03:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/08/photo-finish-friday-hold/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_37fb9d03-b032-47f8-af09-80e0403f86b6.jpgimage_37fb9d03-b032-47f8-af09-80e0403f86b6Hold Patch the winter sky / with growing bits of tonight. / Hold back tomorrow. . . #hold #winter #sky #bits #tonight #tomorrow #haiga #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #friday #120823 #20232023-12-09T01:44:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/07/haiku-to-you-thursday-holiday/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_56263e17-9a65-4603-acbb-9e95e0523ca9.jpgimage_56263e17-9a65-4603-acbb-9e95e0523ca9Holiday A young lad dreams of / riding his paper airplane / like Santa’s red sleigh. . . #holiday #dreams #lad #paper #airplane #santa #sleigh #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #thursday #120723 #20232023-12-08T04:43:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/06/molten-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_70a62842-79c7-4462-aa59-6719a30d1a4d.jpgimage_70a62842-79c7-4462-aa59-6719a30d1a4dMolten Red, molten morning / Umber clouds seethe in the sky / Umbrage at the sun. . . #umber #clouds #sun #morning #umbrage #red #molten #seethe #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #december #monday #2021 #1206212023-12-07T04:45:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/06/must-eye/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_39b912f1-75e1-40c5-88d8-324204571f3b.jpgimage_39b912f1-75e1-40c5-88d8-324204571f3bMust Eye Must I answer that? / Isn’t it enough I am? / Eye see no wrong here. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #I #eye #pun #answer #wrong #december #saturday #2020 #photooftheday #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #knoxville #tennessee #1205202023-12-07T03:55:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/06/explore/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_779fad32-ff3d-47d6-811f-1594e78366ee.jpgimage_779fad32-ff3d-47d6-811f-1594e78366eeExplore Old daylight retreats. / One by one, houselights explore / this young winter’s eve. . . #explore #winter #eve #daylight #houselights #old #young #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #wednesday #120623 #20232023-12-06T14:11:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/05/horizon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_0f121d8a-6d77-4887-af8d-9d5b8ba0302d.jpgimage_0f121d8a-6d77-4887-af8d-9d5b8ba0302dHorizon Another day flowers / the horizon with colors / soon dying to black. . . #day #flowers #horizon #colors #dying #black #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #tuesday #120523 #20232023-12-05T05:45:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/04/from-2019-again/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_b51d0c5c-e243-43da-9ddc-f4ce376205fe.jpgimage_b51d0c5c-e243-43da-9ddc-f4ce376205feFrom 2019 Again Again it begins. / Chemotherapy cocktail. / “My eyelids sweat,” she said. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #davidebooker #chemotherapy #eyelids #cocktail #december #tuesday #2019 #cancer #treatment #medicine #sweat #holidays #1203192023-12-05T03:59:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/03/from-2019-neulasta-snapping/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_668b58fc-ef78-4f2b-86c4-d4ee30d36e8a.jpgimage_668b58fc-ef78-4f2b-86c4-d4ee30d36e8aNeulasta snapping Delayed beginning. / Sinking gap, healing touch. / Neulasta snapping. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #photo #davidebooker #cancer #neulasta #healing #healingtouch #treatment #snapping #snap #beginning #1203192023-12-04T04:45:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/03/13264/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_05f6db20-effe-4edb-928e-9afddde2e4e1.jpgimage_05f6db20-effe-4edb-928e-9afddde2e4e1Winter Dusk hung in her mind. / Blood red painted against the sky. / Winter mood unfolds. . . #red #dusk #winter #mood #blood #sky #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #november #dusk #wednesday #2021 #1201212023-12-03T05:53:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/02/rumples-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_df3b07ec-a521-44fe-833e-6a171ef27b9b.jpgimage_df3b07ec-a521-44fe-833e-6a171ef27b9bRumples Rumpled clouds, unmade / head, autumn morning chirping, / filled with tousled light. . . #morning #autumn #light #clouds #rumpled #chirping #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #november #thursday #2021 #1202212023-12-03T03:30:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/02/words/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_43b503ee-2c48-439e-a2c8-3af9d162e9bc.jpgimage_43b503ee-2c48-439e-a2c8-3af9d162e9bcWords Rain speaks with words clear / that pool on the Earth, until / in full reflection. . . #words #rain #speaks #earth #pool #reflection #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #saturday #120223 #20232023-12-03T01:24:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/02/photo-finish-friday-cling/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_b0f729c2-4cf1-4bce-a510-75e5cf1b4b71.jpgimage_b0f729c2-4cf1-4bce-a510-75e5cf1b4b71Cling Fall rain clings to stems / and leaves clinging to summer’s / warm, fading promise. . . #cling #promise #leaves #stems #fall #summer #photo #haiga #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #120123 #20232023-12-02T05:00:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/12/01/transcendental-pi/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image_4024914c-bb35-4255-be06-d1ac0937c321.jpgimage_4024914c-bb35-4255-be06-d1ac0937c321Transcendental Pi From the right Space Seed / Grew the Amok Time baking. Warped fork-ter for two. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #pun #startrek #spaceseed #space #seed #amoktime #time #pi #pie #davidebooker #thanksgiving #pumpkin #november #thursday #2019 #1128192023-12-02T03:33:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/30/morning-fire/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_676ce95e-f2cd-4b42-a61e-0e275a105108.jpgimage_676ce95e-f2cd-4b42-a61e-0e275a105108Morning fire Fire wakes crisp fall sky. / Morning cloud plumes like fresh smoke. / Air cold as dead dreams. . . #fire #morning #cloud #smoke #fall #autumn #sky #dead #dreams #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #november #tuesday #2021 #1130212023-12-01T04:18:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/30/haiku-to-you-thursday-communion/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_8dc13e48-d829-4988-9c58-2d6c8a716643.jpgimage_8dc13e48-d829-4988-9c58-2d6c8a716643Communion Cooper’s Hawk waits / in empty communion / with scattered birds. . . #communion #hawk #cooper’s #birds #photo #wait #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #thursday #113023 #20232023-12-01T01:53:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/29/embrace-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_79d430ad-4445-4740-aa69-b1809690c18c.jpgimage_79d430ad-4445-4740-aa69-b1809690c18cEmbrace Branches bare, sunlight crisp, clouds with highlighted edges. Fall’s naked embrace. . . #branches #sunlight #clouds #edges #fall #embrace #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #wednesday #112923 #20232023-11-30T04:08:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/28/rhythms/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_0903f2c0-60fe-4b98-8ae4-71e59f03ecc3.jpgimage_0903f2c0-60fe-4b98-8ae4-71e59f03ecc3Rhythms Steady, deep rhythms / calm the mind, quiet the heart, breathe to right the leaf. . . #rhythms #mind #heart #breathe #steady #leaf #photo #haiga #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #112823 #20232023-11-29T03:37:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/27/fall-leaves/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_d28b4d42-36bc-44c4-9c04-7d50b1217106.jpgimage_d28b4d42-36bc-44c4-9c04-7d50b1217106Fall leaves Blueberry’s fall leaves / reflect red with the season, / soon brown with winter. . . #fall #winter #blueberry #leaves #reflect #red #brown #haiga #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #monday #november #112723 #20232023-11-28T04:52:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/26/friendly-light/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_75920888-07c5-4254-a5d3-3414ea056625.jpgimage_75920888-07c5-4254-a5d3-3414ea056625Friendly light Friendly light, dangling / Fire of the holiday night. / Thankful beginnings. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #wednesday #november2020 #thankful #light #dangling #holiday #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #gazebo #1125202023-11-26T06:41:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/25/acorns/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_2c3b6762-903e-42ab-8af6-5937b1352fdf.jpgimage_2c3b6762-903e-42ab-8af6-5937b1352fdfAcorns Fall in the limbs / Acorns await gravity / tomorrow's promise. . . #acorn #fall #limbs #gravity #tomorrow #promise #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #1121162023-11-26T02:26:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/24/close-encounter/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_1cf63463-1fb2-4746-8bb5-bb3d0b90c92c.jpgimage_1cf63463-1fb2-4746-8bb5-bb3d0b90c92cClose encounter Yes, men are from Mars. / And women aren’t interested. / A Wookie mistake. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #humor #cosplay #writer #writing #men #women #wookie #sciencefiction #scifi #davidebooker #november #sunday #2019 #mars #spaceman #1124192023-11-25T02:39:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/24/photo-finish-friday-saved/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_0060d15e-aca4-4d6a-9cde-2f11beaecb91.jpgimage_0060d15e-aca4-4d6a-9cde-2f11beaecb91Saved My giblets were saved / by buckling up. Gravy, however, was lost. . . #giblets #buckling #gravy #lost #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #davidebooker #knoxville #november #friday #112423 #20232023-11-24T05:43:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/24/saved/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_ad127918-dfe2-4f3f-931a-fd3cb73f858e.jpgimage_ad127918-dfe2-4f3f-931a-fd3cb73f858eSaved My giblets were saved / by buckling up. Gravy, however, was lost. . . #giblets #buckling #gravy #lost #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #davidebooker #knoxville #november #friday #112423 #20232023-11-24T05:39:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/23/wind-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_150f068b-bedc-4795-bde3-0dfd456cf40c.jpgimage_150f068b-bedc-4795-bde3-0dfd456cf40cWind Like birds on a wire, / Waiting for inspiration, / My thoughts ache for wind. . . #thoughts #inspiration #birds #wire #wind #ache #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #monday #2021 #1122212023-11-23T19:01:02+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/23/frost/2023-11-23T18:36:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/22/ladybug/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_3495887c-3bf2-4f47-ad8c-245c559eb01c.jpgimage_3495887c-3bf2-4f47-ad8c-245c559eb01cLadybug Asian immigrant / on a late fall afternoon. / Do we send you home? . . #labybug #immigrant #asian #home #fall #afternoon #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #wednesday #112223 #20232023-11-23T04:55:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/21/wrinkled-paper/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_22bba8fd-e52b-40e0-87be-aa2d7d9ac670.jpgimage_22bba8fd-e52b-40e0-87be-aa2d7d9ac670Wrinkled paper Opening again, / wrinkled wrapping paper. / I hear it, too — rain. . . #wrinkled #paper #rain #hear #opening #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #november #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #tuesday #112123 #20232023-11-22T02:09:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/20/dolly-2018/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_a3798422-ff4b-440b-ac27-a6b599bc16cb.jpgimage_a3798422-ff4b-440b-ac27-a6b599bc16cbHuman, 2018 To his coy mistress / My love shall never wig out / To hair is human. . . #112018 Dolly, 2018 To his coy mistress: / my love shall never wig out. / Oh, Dolly Parton. . . #112018 #112023 #Dolly #coy #mistress #wig #love #Parton #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #humor #knoxville #davidebooker #bethsbooker #november #monday2023-11-21T05:22:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/20/passing-whisper/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_aa1097a6-ec19-44da-b668-2684975d1ed8.jpgimage_aa1097a6-ec19-44da-b668-2684975d1ed8Passing whisper Half-moon passes / among the bare fall branches, / whispering goodbye. . . #whisper #half_moon #bare #fall #branches #goodbye #photo #haiga #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #monday #112023 #20232023-11-21T03:54:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/19/canopy/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_804e91d4-ff0c-4679-9669-bc4b7a77e69b.jpgimage_804e91d4-ff0c-4679-9669-bc4b7a77e69bCanopy Canopy of leaves: / fall reds, oranges, yellows / filter morning light. . . #leaves #canopy #fall #filter #morning #light #reds #yellow #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #november #friday #2021 #1119212023-11-20T04:09:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/19/whisper-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_e746204d-12e3-4dd6-9bfb-1c5ded6d1110.jpgimage_e746204d-12e3-4dd6-9bfb-1c5ded6d1110Whisper Whisper of light. / Kiss of forgotten love. / Where is there good night? . . #whisper #light #kiss #love #goodnight #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #saturday #111922 #20222023-11-20T02:13:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/19/down-and-up/2023-11-19T16:25:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/18/a-modern-fractured-fairy-tale/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_a7ab4630-fbe6-4a15-8937-7514aee17c00.jpgSo, the yellow brick road was paved with gold covered in green?So, the yellow brick road was paved with gold covered in green?2023-11-19T03:16:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/18/a-little-light-reading/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_2633dd89-5ff6-4afb-ac03-d6aaff9ff54c.jpgA little light reading.A little light reading.2023-11-18T14:28:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/17/photo-finish-friday-dappled-november/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_78c58fde-d668-4e5a-bd64-a4f98b804745.jpgimage_78c58fde-d668-4e5a-bd64-a4f98b804745Dappled November Dabbled sidewalk. / Sunlight footfalls through bare limbs. / November travels. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #sunlight #dabble #limbs #footfalls #sidewalk #november #friday #111723 #20232023-11-18T05:20:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/17/haiku-2018-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_b4ce685f-bdd7-44fb-baff-d52613c21f49.jpgimage_b4ce685f-bdd7-44fb-baff-d52613c21f49Haiku 2018 Bands of bright white rays / Sun peeking through slanted blinds / Beauty shadows light. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #words #photography #light #shadow #beauty #sun #shades #blinds #slats #bands #1117182023-11-18T04:03:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/17/leaves-and-lovers-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_1c9b1a9e-2555-4f40-b0f5-cfc7286f8608.jpgimage_1c9b1a9e-2555-4f40-b0f5-cfc7286f8608Leaves and lovers Sunlight and shadow, / momentarily lovers: / leaves and trees and time. . . #leaves #lovers #sunlight #shadows #trees #time #morning #fall #haiku #poem #poetry #davidebooker #november #wednesday #2021 #1117212023-11-17T05:28:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/16/haiku-to-you-thursday-wiry-smile/2023-11-17T03:23:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/15/offering/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_f0a4f4fd-6749-44b9-80ed-11ac4d80fb35.jpgimage_f0a4f4fd-6749-44b9-80ed-11ac4d80fb35Offering Shallow bowl of leaves / Gathered by a morning wind. / Autumn offering. . . #offering #autumn #wind #bowl #leaves #morning #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #november #thursday #2021 #1118212023-11-15T22:33:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/14/fading/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_7d86fc44-cb4e-401a-babc-d805c8b8fab6.jpgimage_7d86fc44-cb4e-401a-babc-d805c8b8fab6Fading A shield to the rain, oak leaf upturned on the street, fading on asphalt. . . #fading #rain #oak #leaf #fading #asphalt #street #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #111423 #20232023-11-15T04:57:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/13/holiday-memories/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_0c2562d1-d78b-41ce-87bc-0c946ac76154.jpgimage_0c2562d1-d78b-41ce-87bc-0c946ac76154Holiday memories Holiday baking / turns ingredients into / tasty memories. . . #holiday #baking #memories #ingredients #tasty #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #monday #111323 #20232023-11-14T04:59:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/12/evening-shadow/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_90c6c034-9cc1-4224-bf2e-1febaafe0eaf.jpgimage_90c6c034-9cc1-4224-bf2e-1febaafe0eafEvening shadow An evening shadow falls across the quiet sidewalk: thoughts and prayers walk on. . . #evening #shadows #sidewalk #poem #thoughts #prayers #sidewalk #walk #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #quiet #thoughts #prayers #november #sunday #111223 #20232023-11-13T03:28:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/12/exhume-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_67d3828f-a4bd-4fff-b998-70f36d4ae728.jpgimage_67d3828f-a4bd-4fff-b998-70f36d4ae728Exhume Grave-slab clouds exhumed. / Water wandering wildly. / Winter almost here. . . #clouds #water #winter #exhume #grave #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #november #saturday #111222 #20222023-11-13T00:11:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/12/traveler-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_54bd870f-ef88-49a3-b5c3-cc9ca0e8ed0f.jpgimage_54bd870f-ef88-49a3-b5c3-cc9ca0e8ed0fTraveler Autumn in shadows, / Evening Sun slung low, early. / Traveler departing. . . #autumn #sun #evening #shadows #traveler #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #november #thursday #2021 #1111212023-11-12T19:18:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/12/blur-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_d07c4da6-c738-4646-ac55-c4b0930c53f0.jpgimage_d07c4da6-c738-4646-ac55-c4b0930c53f0Blur Birds at the feeder, blurry against the cold and night’s coming embrace. . . #blurry #birds #cold #feeder #embrace #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #saturday #111222 #20222023-11-12T17:54:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/10/that-which-is/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_36ed9727-b492-41c9-b99b-e74e8115f590.jpgimage_36ed9727-b492-41c9-b99b-e74e8115f590That which is As much idea / as desire, as much action / as place … is home. . . #home #idea #desire #action #place #oldnorthknoxville #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #november #thursday #112022 #20222023-11-11T03:50:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/10/photo-finish-friday-the-road/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_dd9ab03f-7364-4e20-8e80-b24b66d8979e.jpgimage_dd9ab03f-7364-4e20-8e80-b24b66d8979eThe road The road less traveled at one time had to be built before it was true. . . #road #traveled #built #before #true #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #111023 #20232023-11-11T03:08:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/10/green-monk/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_44f27fae-e1ba-4764-97d1-0ea44a148438.jpgimage_44f27fae-e1ba-4764-97d1-0ea44a148438Green monk Green monk of summer / Bending toward the end of days. / Seeding for the spring. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #monday #november #monk #green #seeds #2020 #summer #spring #oldnorthknoxville #flower #photooftheday #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #1110202023-11-11T02:16:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/10/time-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_d86c98fd-26e1-4ec9-b333-8b71b2f7cf29.jpgimage_d86c98fd-26e1-4ec9-b333-8b71b2f7cf29Time Man made the time piece. / Time’s moments make memories. / The clock should not rule. . . #time #clock #memories #man #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #tree #oldnorthknoxville #fall #november #wednesday #2021 #1110212023-11-10T16:51:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/08/waiting-8/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_22d96c8b-086a-4d0a-b1da-9c85cba063b2.jpgimage_22d96c8b-086a-4d0a-b1da-9c85cba063b2Waiting Waiting your guidance, / possessions are opinions / lacking direction. . . #waiting #guidance #opinions #possessions #direction #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #davidebooker #knoxville #110822 #20222023-11-09T04:50:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/08/windows/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_145d61c9-8767-4194-86bc-9b52beb88336.jpgimage_145d61c9-8767-4194-86bc-9b52beb88336Windows The light remains on / though the room remains empty. / Memories remain. . . #windows #remain #light #memories #empty #room #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #wednesday #110823 #20232023-11-09T04:04:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/07/whisper-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_83fb2ab9-db81-4ca8-9268-2097428f035e.jpgimage_83fb2ab9-db81-4ca8-9268-2097428f035eWhisper Clouds drape the sunset. / Fall reds and orange whisper / of old homes and dreams. . . #whisper #dreams #homes #clouds #fall #sunset #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #110823 #20232023-11-08T04:45:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/05/cool-sun/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_6c763546-2718-4495-9497-cbf35d306ad9.jpgimage_6c763546-2718-4495-9497-cbf35d306ad9Cool sun The autumn’s cool sun / spurs not the bee to quickness. / Flower’s empty hearth. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #bee #flower #hearth #autumn #sun #photooftheday #videooftheday #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #2020 #wednesday #knoxville #tennessee #1104202023-11-06T04:25:16+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/05/both-2/2023-11-06T02:22:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/04/in-one-leaf-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_cfcd1c63-d2cf-4b7f-899f-5a63761b42a9.jpgimage_cfcd1c63-d2cf-4b7f-899f-5a63761b42a9In one leaf In one leaf is all the fall, and in one moment is all of a life. . . #leaf #fall #moment #life #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #thursday #110421 #20212023-11-05T03:24:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/04/scarlet-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_57c41e16-91b7-478e-af3f-e44b266cdd50.jpgimage_57c41e16-91b7-478e-af3f-e44b266cdd50Scarlet Scarlet November / Dies in beauty on the earth. / Withered Maple fist. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writer #maple #leaf #scarlet #november #writing #photo #photography #fist #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #1102182023-11-05T03:06:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/04/city-night/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_cebddd7b-947d-4a8d-bbf7-47878ac4e220.jpgimage_cebddd7b-947d-4a8d-bbf7-47878ac4e220City night City buildings at night, / flowers of concrete and glass, / blooming with light. . . #city #night #light #buildings #flowers #concrete #glass #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #november #saturday #110423 #20232023-11-05T00:15:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/03/photo-finish-friday-night/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_d3071e51-59af-414b-b23e-b0cf68c0ff81.jpgimage_d3071e51-59af-414b-b23e-b0cf68c0ff81Night Night lights, buildings bright / people walk around, against / the autumn downtown. . . #lights #bright #night #buildings #autumn #downtown #people #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #110323 #20232023-11-04T03:57:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/02/fall-flowers-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_27792d01-7dd1-48e5-9f83-44dd1dd6a7ab.jpgimage_27792d01-7dd1-48e5-9f83-44dd1dd6a7abFall flowers Paths of fall color / Descending from summer / Color winter’s way. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #leaves #fall #winter #summer #writing #writer #poet #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #tennessee #oldnorthknoxvillehistoricdistrict #november #saturday #2019 #color #1102192023-11-03T03:54:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/02/at-home-with-a-good-book/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_db0399d6-6a06-4fc3-9023-12de27076916.jpgimage_db0399d6-6a06-4fc3-9023-12de27076916“At home with a good book” I wanna go home where the buffalo roam all about the loam, and the troll and the gnome eat crumpets from a comb and the strumpets of Rome read erotica from a tome and wait for you at home where the fun’s allowed to roam wild as strumpets on a comb and crumpets on the loam and buffalo with a tome thundering about the streets of Rome. I wanna go home. . . #poetry #erotica #poems #strumpets #book #rome #buffalo #tome #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #110212 “…strumpets read erotica from a tome….”2023-11-03T02:28:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/11/01/fall-leaf/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image_84f55494-1e6c-4ebc-aa12-f6f3cc1314f4.jpgimage_84f55494-1e6c-4ebc-aa12-f6f3cc1314f4Fall leaf The fall light declines. / The fading leaf catches / the evening shadows. . . #fall #leaf #fading #catches #light #evening #shadows #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #wednesday #110123 #20232023-11-02T03:16:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/31/cartoonsday-pumpkin-spice/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_77054e4b-9900-443e-abd7-64785603ecf4.jpgimage_77054e4b-9900-443e-abd7-64785603ecf4Pumpkin spice Oh, that pumpkin spice. Some say, “How nice.” Some say, “It doesn’t entice.” In your latte or your cocoa cup, It’s meant to please, to fill you up. It’s as though this orange gourd Was handed down by some manor lord. But is this what Halloween means? Lining someone else purse with our green As we smell it, taste it, baste it, Living as if we cannot waste it? Oh, that odorous pumpkin spice, Coming to offer, to entice. A little pumpkin can be nice, But a lot is like having lice. . . #103122 #pumpkin #spice #halloween #taste #smell #baste #davidebooker #octoberhttps://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_838b1b5e-f272-4552-9da4-eef55ec5db20.jpgimage_838b1b5e-f272-4552-9da4-eef55ec5db20Oh, that pumpkin spice. Some say, “How nice.” Some say, “It doesn’t entice.” In your latte or your cocoa cup, It’s meant to please, to fill you up. It’s as though this orange gourd Was handed down by some manor lord. But is this what Halloween means? Lining someone else purse with our green As we smell it, taste it, baste it, Living as if we cannot waste it? Oh, that odorous pumpkin spice, Coming to offer, to entice. A little pumpkin can be nice, But a lot is like having lice. . . #103122 #pumpkinspice2023-11-01T01:59:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/31/the-flash/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_5322235c-4d5b-4a1f-ab96-1e8680871146.jpgimage_5322235c-4d5b-4a1f-ab96-1e8680871146The flash A flash of inspiration, Showering the consternation While trying to find usurpation Because the damn thing won’t work. Moments of contemplation, Mental hiccups and gyrations Have led to this perturbation: Water and electricity to twerk. The world in needed restoration Could use so full lubrication: Sweat, blood, toil - an aggregation Exploding with a jerk. . . #poem #poetry #humor #cartoon #toaster #electricity #halloween #water #october #saturday #2020 #davidebooker #1031202023-11-01T00:59:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/30/whisper-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_588c8561-e7a6-4886-ac5a-0a0d0a9eeebe.jpgimage_588c8561-e7a6-4886-ac5a-0a0d0a9eeebeWhisper Falling leaves of fall / whisper their dying refrain: / winter is coming. . . #whisper #falling #leaves #fall #refrain #winter #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #monday #103023 #20232023-10-31T03:31:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/29/hanging/2023-10-30T03:57:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/28/autumn-descends/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_7f949475-5980-4ffa-8983-fd4a9869fc23.jpgimage_7f949475-5980-4ffa-8983-fd4a9869fc23Autumn descends Old leaves and lost light, / days of autumn descend on / young cat and stone bench. . . #autumn #descend #leaves #old #light #young #cat #photo #poem #poetry #stone #bench #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #102823 #20232023-10-29T03:47:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/28/embrace-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_51de0736-219c-48cf-8dd2-ccb0fc4a49ba.jpgimage_51de0736-219c-48cf-8dd2-ccb0fc4a49baEmbrace Iron bars may not a / Prison make, but the Earth may / Embrace you forever. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #photo #graveyard #prison #earth #davidebooker #tombstone #oldgray #halloween #autumn #102818 #writing #writer #photography #cemetery #oldgraycemetery2023-10-29T02:55:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/27/bending-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_17fe9025-64ce-4a61-b424-c21739cdaba3.jpgimage_17fe9025-64ce-4a61-b424-c21739cdaba3Bending Bending the daylight, / Shaping the shadows, the bridge / Spans more than water. . . #daylight #shadows #bridge #spans #water #shaping #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #september #tuesday #2021 #0928212023-10-28T02:42:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/27/photo-finish-friday-seasonal-waters/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_77109987-0b63-4090-a1ed-7a00b2c7d82f.jpgimage_77109987-0b63-4090-a1ed-7a00b2c7d82fSeasonal waters It is the season. / I drink from the mouth of death / to quench my parched bones. / Though I shall never be done / for death now flows forth from me. . . #tanka #waka #season #death #waters #mouth #bones #photo #poem #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #friday #102723 #20232023-10-28T00:51:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/26/haiku-to-you-thursday-caress-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_ae26d5e6-9cfd-48fa-aad5-470ccf444b61.jpgimage_ae26d5e6-9cfd-48fa-aad5-470ccf444b61Caress Sky touches nothing / yet still caresses the Earth’s / all-embracing beauty. . . #caress #sky #earth #touch #nothing #beauty #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #thursday #102523 #102512 #20232023-10-27T03:57:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/25/fall-songs/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_42b60fa2-17b6-4597-941b-48fa28a3f389.jpgimage_42b60fa2-17b6-4597-941b-48fa28a3f389Fall songs Listen to the rain / of leaves and the songs of birds; / symphony of fall. . . #leaves #songs #fall #symphony #listen #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #birds #talltalestogo #davidebooker #october #wednesday #102523 #20232023-10-26T03:38:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/24/morning-fog-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_83736548-9541-4e81-83ea-44feecd27d7f.jpgimage_83736548-9541-4e81-83ea-44feecd27d7fMorning fog Sun wears morning fog, / peeks from behind damp fall trees. / Light and thoughts refract. . . #fall #light #fog #refract #thoughts #sun #trees #morning #haiku #poem #photo #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #sunday #2021 #1024212023-10-25T03:46:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/24/green-eye/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_f238cc1e-52ec-4f26-83fb-5768fe5bbae4.jpgimage_f238cc1e-52ec-4f26-83fb-5768fe5bbae4Green eye The green eye of fall / spies from between the gate slats, / crouches with the leaves. . . #green #eye #leaves #fall #gate #spies #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #talltalestogo #davidebooker #october #tuesday #102423 #20232023-10-25T02:23:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/24/moments-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_61e0aace-6237-4c03-9bff-71d09f34ed8e.jpgimage_61e0aace-6237-4c03-9bff-71d09f34ed8eMoments Moments are time’s stones. / Some build bridges to the heart. / Some become fall leaves. . . #moments #stones #bridges #leaves #time #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #tennessee #davidebooker #october #monday #102422 #20222023-10-24T05:42:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/23/hidden/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_7ad10f39-218d-4780-8b8d-02cac37dabe2.jpgimage_7ad10f39-218d-4780-8b8d-02cac37dabe2Hidden Hidden in each leaf / is the chance to do good — / if you can find it. . . #hidden #chance #good #find #you #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #monday #102323 #20232023-10-24T03:54:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/22/half-moon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_cf8eaefb-1101-429f-a76b-3bfe4ddb7337.jpgimage_cf8eaefb-1101-429f-a76b-3bfe4ddb7337Half-moon Autumn half-moon, high, / waves to the world, good-bye; / night soon fills the sky. . . #half-moon #autumn #world #good-bye #night #sky #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #sunday #102223 #20232023-10-23T03:28:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/21/brushy-mountain-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_6a46ada7-e0e3-49d9-8c50-c6a79fab58ed.jpgimage_6a46ada7-e0e3-49d9-8c50-c6a79fab58edBrushy Mountain Watchers and watched speak / Memories wet and cold as / A Saturday rain. . . #rain #saturday #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #writer #davidebooker #october #2019 #prison #memories #brushymountainstatepenitentiary #watchers #watched #tennessee #1020192023-10-22T03:49:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/21/brushy-mountain-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_20c20cd7-854c-4e6e-b46b-20e7b1dae810.jpgimage_20c20cd7-854c-4e6e-b46b-20e7b1dae810Brushy Mountain Watchers and watched speak / Memories wet and cold as / A Saturday rain. . . #rain #saturday #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #writer #davidebooker #october #2019 #prison #memories #brushymountainstatepenitentiary #watchers #watched #tennessee #1020192023-10-22T03:46:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/21/name/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_07969fa4-ed26-4542-a482-d56cc882ff3c.jpgimage_07969fa4-ed26-4542-a482-d56cc882ff3cName Your name, the creek speaks, / decorated with fall leaves / and human folly. . . #name #folly #creek #fall #leaves #human #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #102123 #20232023-10-22T03:31:41+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/20/photo-finish-friday-red/2023-10-21T03:46:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/19/haiku-to-you-thursday-wish/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_4a3239e5-58ad-4ec7-82a2-c25915bcfb3c.jpgimage_4a3239e5-58ad-4ec7-82a2-c25915bcfb3cWish Iris in autumn, / blooming purple as if May / were a wish away. . . #iris #autumn #wish #may #bloom #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #thursday #101923 #20232023-10-20T03:59:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/19/salutation-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_c2acbfa2-ae62-42eb-9844-4f09c2b07e35.jpgimage_c2acbfa2-ae62-42eb-9844-4f09c2b07e35Salutation I stand up to you, / Young cat said to Old cane. / Old cane kept its lean. . . #cane #cat #salutation #stand #young #old #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #october #sunday #101622 #20222023-10-20T00:21:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/19/shadow/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_3e1986ad-241f-435a-a39e-f44067ffc570.jpgimage_3e1986ad-241f-435a-a39e-f44067ffc570Shadow Shadow has no grip, / but can hold you anyway, / and never release. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #shadow #grip #hold #release #davidebooker #tennessee #october #tuesday #101921 #20212023-10-19T22:32:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/18/surreal/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_a7198f8f-a074-4cf4-a022-9ed6160ddee9.jpgimage_a7198f8f-a074-4cf4-a022-9ed6160ddee9Surreal In the fall I grow / the dead in plastic or / quiet memory. . . #surreal #fall #grow #dead #plastic #memory #poem #poetry #photo #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #wednesday #101823 #20232023-10-19T03:14:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/18/slight-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_1eecd75c-7493-436b-a319-594d9cf362e4.jpgimage_1eecd75c-7493-436b-a319-594d9cf362e4Slight Moon above, street light / below. Clouds hue the fall night. / Leaves limn with what’s bright. . . #bright #night #light #fall #moon #street #leaves #hue #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #wednesday #101222 #20222023-10-19T01:43:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/17/empty-exit/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_7cbcf8c1-192f-40b0-b569-3f7a0227a72b.jpgimage_7cbcf8c1-192f-40b0-b569-3f7a0227a72bEmpty exit Music made with tears, / dissonance flows over me. / Words clang: bullet, heart. . . #empty #exit #dissonance #tears #music #words #bullet #heart #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #knoxville #davidebooker #october #101723 #tuesday #20232023-10-18T03:47:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/17/sometimes-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_4126c926-0aa7-47e5-aed3-508f8ba0f2bf.jpgimage_4126c926-0aa7-47e5-aed3-508f8ba0f2bfSometimes Sometimes, what I see, / heavy yet light in the sky, / are moments of you. . . #sometimes #heavy #light #moments #see #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #monday #102623 #20232023-10-17T04:04:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/15/read-leaf/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_bcdf798d-1e52-4128-a1d3-dcb275eea717.jpgimage_bcdf798d-1e52-4128-a1d3-dcb275eea717Red leaf Red leaf on the ground. / Maple leaf among the brown. / Autumn accent found. . . #red #leaf #maple #brown #ground #autumn #found #accent #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #october #sunday #101523 #20232023-10-16T03:23:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/15/fortune-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_e78af410-8c27-4edd-bd29-6a216de30741.jpgimage_e78af410-8c27-4edd-bd29-6a216de30741Fortune Fuzzy bath fortune / says, “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” / Or slip in the tub. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #bath #fortune #tub #writing #talltalestogo #101518 #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october2023-10-16T00:30:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/15/color-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_f1849a16-3c04-468e-9842-00a84976dd5b.jpgimage_f1849a16-3c04-468e-9842-00a84976dd5bColor Etched against autumn, / Butterfly and sunflower / Hold to summer’s bloom. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #butterfly #sunflower #bloom #summer #autumn #oldnorthknoxville #photo #davidebooker #october #friday #2021 #1015212023-10-15T19:15:28+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/14/lichen-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_096f7f55-2e02-40a5-81a4-cb619eefd15b.jpgimage_096f7f55-2e02-40a5-81a4-cb619eefd15bLichen Lichen on the fence, / growing on the shaped timbers. / Nature on man-made. . . #lichen #fence #timbers #nature #man-made #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #101423 #20232023-10-15T03:57:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/13/photo-finish-friday-being/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_36ac660e-803b-468e-91d6-a97267775f49.jpgimage_36ac660e-803b-468e-91d6-a97267775f49Being To be or not to be / depends on who you were / and who you are. . . #being #be #you #were #are #depends #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #knoxville #davidebooker #october #friday #101323 #20232023-10-14T03:13:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/12/haiku-to-you-thursday-visitor/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_8ff9d9d2-5191-4542-8592-049909fa615d.jpgimage_8ff9d9d2-5191-4542-8592-049909fa615dVisitor Midnight visitor / seeking seeds birds left uneaten — / oh possum surprised. . . #visitor #midnight #possum #surprised #seeds #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #thursday #101223 #20232023-10-13T03:56:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/11/bright/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_dd442348-d928-4223-a619-b4af53aa5d17.jpgimage_dd442348-d928-4223-a619-b4af53aa5d17Bright Bright in October, / Mexican sunflowers bloom / in autumn’s coolness. . . #mexican #sunflower #bright #autumn #bloom #coolness #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #wednesday #101123 #20232023-10-12T02:49:37+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/11/alone-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_9008cafb-9594-44d4-96cc-3a0f0602d65a.jpgimage_9008cafb-9594-44d4-96cc-3a0f0602d65aAlone Falling yellow tears, / this sere autumn day is not / for me, alone. . . #fall #autumn #tears #sere #day #alone #leaves #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #tuesday #101122 #20222023-10-12T01:18:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/10/dog-walk/2023-10-11T02:35:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/09/wish/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_80a8d517-b3ee-4a3e-ab5b-f28b229708fa.jpgimage_80a8d517-b3ee-4a3e-ab5b-f28b229708faWish Light as a child’s wish / painted across the blue sky. / I paint a wish, too. . . #wish #paint #child #sky #light #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #monday #100923 #20232023-10-10T03:56:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/08/drive-thru/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_531a42a4-fdef-44d4-abd7-1041b2052144.jpgimage_531a42a4-fdef-44d4-abd7-1041b2052144Drive Thru Home was the Drive Thru, / nesting ten feet off the ground, / until autumn came. . . #home #drive_thru #nest #autumn #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #october #sunday #100823 #20232023-10-09T03:23:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/07/murmur/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_9f620859-6fff-4f5b-833c-8833d2fdb903.jpgimage_9f620859-6fff-4f5b-833c-8833d2fdb903Murmur Dead leaves murmur, / sere in the cool autumn breeze, / susurrate goodbye. . . #murmur #susurrate #leaves #autumn #breeze #goodbye #sere #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #October #Saturday #100723 #20232023-10-08T02:06:19+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/06/photo-finish-friday-way-back/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_e645bdd2-a069-4001-8c79-22ba91e906cb.jpgimage_e645bdd2-a069-4001-8c79-22ba91e906cbWay back I see you see me. Haircut mirror on the deck. The way back machine. . . #way #back #haircut #mirror #machine #deck #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #October #100623 #100120ph #Friday #20232023-10-07T00:44:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/05/tenuous-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_60bb5a3a-f74f-42a1-b47a-08ceb1fb52be.jpgimage_60bb5a3a-f74f-42a1-b47a-08ceb1fb52beTenuous The web to the stars / is grounded in those moments / tenuous to touch. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #october #monday #spiderweb #moments #stars #tenuous #oldnorthknoxville #photooftheday #2020 #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #1005202023-10-05T23:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/04/harass/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_30fbdf94-2379-44e0-91eb-f98e3bd5e3ba.jpgimage_30fbdf94-2379-44e0-91eb-f98e3bd5e3baHarass A feathered sun sits / high in the catalpa tree. / Feathered moons harass. . . #harass #feathered #sun #moon #catalpa #tree #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #October #Wednesday #100423 #20232023-10-05T03:46:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/03/three-parts-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_32d584a0-0e27-4956-b40b-6a1d24fa66db.jpgimage_32d584a0-0e27-4956-b40b-6a1d24fa66dbFrom 2011 Three Parts Blueberry picking starts at Three Rivers Market. Buy a plant and plant. . . #100311 #blueberry #plant #market #threeriversmarket #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #bethbooker #October2023-10-04T03:59:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/03/last-chance/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_5f6fb6b1-0bba-430b-bb69-ae8eba47f6ae.jpgimage_5f6fb6b1-0bba-430b-bb69-ae8eba47f6aeLast chance Toward the waning sun / the October sunflowers / aim their last chance blooms. . . #sun #sunflowers #blooms #waning #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #October #Tuesday #100323 #20232023-10-04T03:43:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/03/leg-up/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_946bf877-6fe9-4995-964b-534530ab8985.jpgimage_946bf877-6fe9-4995-964b-534530ab8985From 2018 Leg up Raise your leg higher / Keep your foot above your heart / Step lightly on air. . . #1002182023-10-03T04:02:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/02/corg/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_bdc2fb0a-5bf0-4b9b-b467-aac1b8b0303f.jpgimage_bdc2fb0a-5bf0-4b9b-b467-aac1b8b0303fCorg I am the Corgi. / Resistance is but futile. / Scratch me now, human. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #resistance #corgi #scratch #futile #oldnorthknoxville #photo #davidebooker #humor #october #saturday #2021 #1002212023-10-03T03:47:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/02/linger/2023-10-03T02:49:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/01/light-6/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_ec49e13a-98a7-4c39-948e-421142daea9d.jpgimage_ec49e13a-98a7-4c39-948e-421142daea9dLight The light sees nothing: / no reflections, no shadows, / nothing gone, no you. . . #light #nothing #shadows #reflections #sees #you #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #knoxville #september #friday #093022 #20222023-10-02T03:36:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/10/01/save/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image_498285ea-4b11-4a14-8e1b-5e37b9c12928.jpgimage_498285ea-4b11-4a14-8e1b-5e37b9c12928Save A single flower / cannot save you, except – / in contemplation. . . #save #flower #contemplation #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #sunday #100123 #20232023-10-02T01:37:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/30/quilt/2023-10-01T03:48:47+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/28/haiku-to-you-thursday-dreams-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_f7127cc2-b428-4474-911b-d6a116fd4362.jpgimage_f7127cc2-b428-4474-911b-d6a116fd4362Dreams Found in the small park, / a finger puppet zebra, / dirty but dream filled. . . #dreams #puppet #finger #park #zebra #dirty #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #thursday #092823 #20232023-09-29T03:49:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/27/moment-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_bcc139f4-88bd-4607-a614-d6caeda0b792.jpgimage_bcc139f4-88bd-4607-a614-d6caeda0b792Moment Brown Spanish needles / spear a falling dogwood leaf / and hold a fall moment. . . #needles #moment #dogwood #leaf #fall #moment #spanish #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #September #Wednesday #092723 #20232023-09-28T03:17:25+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/25/three-rivers-market-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_ea3ce40e-5e15-4f69-8ecb-93b2c0fa0811.jpgimage_ea3ce40e-5e15-4f69-8ecb-93b2c0fa0811Three Rivers Market Ode to an eggplant, Locally grown. Daughter holding, about to take home. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #eggplant #daughter #home #grown #threeriversmarket #bethbooker #laurenbooker #davidebooker #september #0924112023-09-26T03:44:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/25/three-rivers-market-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_15a8ab21-f160-42c5-be36-0a6a8f31ab2a.jpgimage_15a8ab21-f160-42c5-be36-0a6a8f31ab2aThree Rivers Market Ode to an eggplant, Locally grown. Daughter holding, about to take home. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #eggplant #daughter #home #grown #threeriversmarket #bethbooker #laurenbooker #davidebooker #september #0924112023-09-26T03:41:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/25/fall/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_b2ae5274-76f2-46b8-bb76-5a98044f26cf.jpgimage_b2ae5274-76f2-46b8-bb76-5a98044f26cfFall Fall paints the maple, / a blush of red to its summer green. / Then the bright leaves fall. . . #poem #poetry #leaves #maple #fall #summer #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #monday #092523 #20232023-09-26T02:39:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/23/loudly/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_9562daf3-2cda-44eb-9df4-aafa832728d3.jpgimage_9562daf3-2cda-44eb-9df4-aafa832728d3Loudly The birds belch loudly / verses on the morning sun. / The earthworms rejoice. . . #birds #belch #sun #earthworms #morning #rejoice #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #friday #092322 #20222023-09-24T03:50:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/23/faces-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_d9cd4170-aea4-4d0f-9e14-4f956c27332c.jpgimage_d9cd4170-aea4-4d0f-9e14-4f956c27332cFaces At the wishing well, / most people make wishes. / Others make faces. . . #faces #wishing #well #wishes #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #photo-092315. #September #Saturday #Knoxville #davidebooker #botanical-garden #0923232023-09-24T03:14:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/23/eyes-4/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_62db419f-7183-494d-9de0-ce7d3face5c9.jpgimage_62db419f-7183-494d-9de0-ce7d3face5c9Eyes From the dark, eyes peer / into the rising, warm day. / Questions fall like leaves. . . #fall #leaves #eyes #questions #day #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #wednesday #092122 #20222023-09-23T07:46:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/22/photo-finish-friday-hose/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_d8881106-465f-4caa-a9d5-e92cc11db3ae.jpgimage_d8881106-465f-4caa-a9d5-e92cc11db3aeHose Garden hose and cat / not pleased with where it’s at. / Curled and claws for a spat. . . #hose #cat #claws #curled #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #friday #2023 #0922232023-09-23T05:51:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/21/haiku-to-you-thursday-few/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_a04c9e40-012a-4207-a52d-f51d087bc5a1.jpgimage_a04c9e40-012a-4207-a52d-f51d087bc5a1Few The last few beans / and a few young tomatoes / of the few days left. . . #few #beans #tomatoes #days #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #september #thursday #092123 #20232023-09-22T02:31:07+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/21/waiting-7/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_c4784a6d-9bed-43df-851d-464b61376c0c.jpgimage_c4784a6d-9bed-43df-851d-464b61376c0cWaiting Empty park swings hang / beneath white ripe clouds, waiting / for chains to rattle. . . #rattle #chains #swings #park #clouds #photo #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #wednesday #092023 #20232023-09-21T04:01:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/20/be-creative/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_14a08e5a-f91e-4059-9028-807b8ea51f74.jpgimage_14a08e5a-f91e-4059-9028-807b8ea51f74In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent: “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula. Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow. God bless you all! Kurt Vonnegut2023-09-21T01:40:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/19/night-light/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_c54fcb66-ccf1-4a90-9516-7bb642910693.jpgimage_c54fcb66-ccf1-4a90-9516-7bb642910693Night light Pale light, pole light. / Moon light, sliver in the night. / Sun light far from sight. . . #night #light #sun #moon #pole #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #tuesday #091923 #20232023-09-20T03:17:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/19/the-wild-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_ed5f60cf-cc61-460e-8bde-3da89a0df0e4.jpgimage_ed5f60cf-cc61-460e-8bde-3da89a0df0e4The wild The wild heart still lives, / among the tamed yards it prowls, / its eyes summer bright. . . #wild #heart #eyes #summer #bright #yards #prowls #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #monday #091922 #20222023-09-20T00:29:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/18/ghosts-and-failures/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_dd70daa5-edb8-4a68-b114-8ebf40f202ed.jpgimage_dd70daa5-edb8-4a68-b114-8ebf40f202edFailures Tires we toss aside / return to remind us of / our ghosts and failures. . . #ghosts #failures #tires #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #monday #091823 #20232023-09-19T02:44:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/17/danse-macabre/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_e934acbf-827a-4ff4-9f5c-ffd31045419e.jpgimage_e934acbf-827a-4ff4-9f5c-ffd31045419eDanse Macabre I stood stone still / when the giant skeleton / asked me to dance. . . #dance #macabre #stone #skeleton #danse #poem #poetry #haiku #humor #halloween #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #September #Sunday #0917232023-09-18T02:55:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/15/twilight/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_31f50b6d-6643-4adb-b7c9-4677421eeed6.jpgimage_31f50b6d-6643-4adb-b7c9-4677421eeed6Twilight Cottage at twilight: / clouds crown its roof, jogger’s footfalls / speak against its walls. . . #twilight #cottage #jogger #footfall #walls #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #September #Friday #091523 #20232023-09-16T03:51:59+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/14/haiku-to-you-thursday-objects/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_068ff02d-a2d5-4d8a-9087-fae682986c9a.jpgimage_068ff02d-a2d5-4d8a-9087-fae682986c9aObjects We live reflected: / objects distorted in space / and layered in time. . . #objects #mirror #space #time #layer #distorted #reflected #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #thursday #091423 #20232023-09-15T04:23:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/14/america-is-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_de0f428e-52b8-4319-a23e-7b2f76c95903.jpgimage_de0f428e-52b8-4319-a23e-7b2f76c95903America is... America is a / flatbed adventure with / pink insulation. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #photooftheday #america #america_is #insulation #adventure #flatbed #monday #september #2020 #knoxville #tennessee #davidebooker #0914202023-09-15T01:14:45+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/13/pie/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_dd66018e-8749-4a33-aa35-8b72d0c66d99.jpgimage_dd66018e-8749-4a33-aa35-8b72d0c66d99Pie Apples peeled and cored, / gathered and ready to turn / fall into taste. . . #pie #apples #fall #taste #peeled #cored #gathered #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #wednesday #091323 #20232023-09-14T03:45:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/12/upside-down/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_4e9bd44f-81b2-4ba7-9183-5f3afb59c62e.jpgimage_4e9bd44f-81b2-4ba7-9183-5f3afb59c62eUpside down Breakfast upside down. / The mantis does not care and /neither does his prey. . . #upside-down #breakfast #mantis #prey #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #tuesday #091223 #20232023-09-13T01:14:40+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/10/streamers/2023-09-11T02:23:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/09/boundary/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_d041ed0b-2e74-4afe-be90-0f11cab04874.jpgimage_d041ed0b-2e74-4afe-be90-0f11cab04874Boundary Today’s boundary / might be tomorrow’s pathway. / In case, take a spoon. . . #spoon #boundary #pathway #today #tomorrow #humor #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #friday #090922 #20222023-09-10T00:27:03+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/08/photo-finish-friday-old-cat/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_d4b02790-2ed9-4afd-9666-c21073eb90f6.jpgimage_d4b02790-2ed9-4afd-9666-c21073eb90f6Old cat The old, stray cat sleeps on the dry September grass. Brittle leaves and dreams. . . #brittle #grass #cat #leaves #dreams #sleeps #September #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #Friday #090823 #20232023-09-09T02:08:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/07/breathe/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_4d585048-0ecc-432f-b09d-eaecd9ae81a0.jpgimage_4d585048-0ecc-432f-b09d-eaecd9ae81a0Breathe September evening / breathes in the day’s last embers, / breathes out its lost dreams . . #September #evening #breathe #embers #dreams #lost #last #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #Thursday #090723 #20232023-09-07T14:23:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/06/dreams-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_b4fb78f5-bc02-41a5-880f-dca69458b867.jpgimage_b4fb78f5-bc02-41a5-880f-dca69458b867Dreams Fall light and shadow, / dreams shine with distorted time, / waiting on their prey. . . #dreams #light #shadow #time #prey #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #September #Tuesday #oldnothknoxville #davidebooker #090523 #20232023-09-06T04:06:05+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/05/ghosts-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_cc0c394c-0fd7-4ae2-903e-f5039f96b4ba.jpgimage_cc0c394c-0fd7-4ae2-903e-f5039f96b4baGhosts Fall daylight declines. / Flaring houselights arise: ghosts / of incomplete time. . . #fall #daylight #houselights #ghosts #time #incomplete #poem #poetry #haìku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #tuesday #080524 #20232023-09-05T04:33:56+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/04/two-chairs-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_3950a6fb-b351-4458-8591-8fea2ad4cfc5.jpgimage_3950a6fb-b351-4458-8591-8fea2ad4cfc5Two chairs We shall find ourselves, / two chairs by an ageless sea, / folding in our names. . . #chairs #sea #we #names #australia #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #mariaforoudi #september #sunday #090422 #20222023-09-05T02:10:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/03/brittle/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_e463019d-97e3-4485-adf8-902b79b0ca89.jpgimage_e463019d-97e3-4485-adf8-902b79b0ca89Brittle Dry September blooms — / dead, brown, and brittle bouquet — / your dark beauty shines. . . #blooms #september #shine #bouquet #dead #dry #beauty #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #sunday #090323 #20232023-09-04T03:43:32+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/03/summers-passing/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_bd6f162b-a6fa-405d-bc26-d43d97f57ac9.jpgimage_bd6f162b-a6fa-405d-bc26-d43d97f57ac9Summer’s passing Bare heads hang empty, / stalks and leaves brown and crispy. / Spiders claim briskly. . . #spiders #briskly #crispy #empty #heads #summer #flowers #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #september #friday #090222 #20222023-09-03T04:05:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/02/leaf-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_29b0d948-98be-45a2-9bd8-c9a280c05813.jpgimage_29b0d948-98be-45a2-9bd8-c9a280c05813Leaf The green drains away. / The leaf dons its brittle coat, / and waits for fall’s touch. . . #leaf #green #coat #fall #touch #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #saturday #090223 #20232023-09-02T22:20:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/09/01/photo-finish-friday-september/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image_0b164a92-e7cd-40e5-8536-d271f6175d4d.jpgimage_0b164a92-e7cd-40e5-8536-d271f6175d4dSeptember September begins. / Many sunflowers are dead. / The bee still finds work. . . #september #sunflowers #dead #bee #work #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #friday #090123 #20232023-09-02T03:32:09+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/31/haiku-to-you-thursday-secrets/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_161d30a2-d4b4-4b8a-9840-4c60c074985b.jpgimage_161d30a2-d4b4-4b8a-9840-4c60c074985bSecrets Whispering secrets, / the dying sunflower / to the living one. . . #secrets #whispering #sunflower #dying #living #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #thursday #083123 #20232023-09-01T03:44:01+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/30/supermoon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_abef50f9-4be3-4856-bba2-cd04e65eef35.jpgimage_abef50f9-4be3-4856-bba2-cd04e65eef35Supermoon Cape as long as night, humans made you a hero / and you were unlucky. . . #supermoon #cape #humans #hero #unlucky #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #august #wednesday #083023 #20232023-08-31T07:11:51+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/29/find/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_b6c7eeeb-8f4f-47f6-90a4-51212751be41.jpgimage_b6c7eeeb-8f4f-47f6-90a4-51212751be41Find Find the green pepper, / spotted with August raindrops, / ripened and waiting. . . #find #pepper #raindrops #waiting #ripened #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #tuesday #082923 #20232023-08-30T03:45:48+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/27/slowly/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_c0a4686e-cd7b-409c-b9d4-ede569dce1ff.jpgimage_c0a4686e-cd7b-409c-b9d4-ede569dce1ffSlowly Slowly in August / the petals fall and then wants / and needs are one. . . #slowly #petals #wants #needs #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #August #Sunday #082723 #20232023-08-28T03:40:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/26/hide/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_d5b0b533-fb5e-4420-b544-c5937e7a2caa.jpgimage_d5b0b533-fb5e-4420-b544-c5937e7a2caaHide Fragile and sun-bleached, / petals of the sunflower / hide the predator. . . #fragile #petals #sunflower #predator #sunbleached #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #hide #talltalestogo #davidebooker #august #saturday #082624 #20232023-08-27T03:39:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/25/photo-finish-friday-life/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_d7abaf72-06d0-4933-8c01-076627f86055.jpgimage_d7abaf72-06d0-4933-8c01-076627f86055Life Do flowers lament / as they die or do they laugh / at life’s transience? . . #life #laugh #lament #die #flowers #transience #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #friday #082523 #20232023-08-26T03:39:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/24/haiku-to-you-thursday-raspberry/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_de9fb6e9-699c-4a1d-832c-207396db4d62.jpgimage_de9fb6e9-699c-4a1d-832c-207396db4d62Raspberries Collected at dusk, / raspberries in an old cap, / makeshift evening food. . . #raspberries #cap #makeshift #food #dusk #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #thursday #082423 #20232023-08-25T03:55:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/24/latte-dah/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_c7ded997-ba25-48cd-9462-bab451384890.jpgimage_c7ded997-ba25-48cd-9462-bab451384890Latte-dah Summer is over, so Starbucks declares, / bringing forth their fall pumpkin wares. / Temperatures still roiling across the US. / When they will break is anybody’s guess. / Hurricanes hit California and other coasts, / but Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai Latte Starbucks boasts. / It may be 69 days until Halloween / but this declaration seems self-serving and a bit obscene.2023-08-25T03:34:22+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/23/reclaim/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_3b6f46c2-ead0-4020-a3c7-33e0c8dd9b33.jpgimage_3b6f46c2-ead0-4020-a3c7-33e0c8dd9b33Reclaim Up through the asphalt, / the common sow thistle grows, / reclaiming its home. . . #asphalt #sow-thistle #home #reclaim #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #UT #knoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #082323 #20232023-08-24T03:44:17+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/23/stops-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_bb779fe7-c818-4eaf-a5e3-07d7e4fe32bd.jpgimage_bb779fe7-c818-4eaf-a5e3-07d7e4fe32bdStops Abandoned portals: / memories echo, dust stirs, / footsteps lead to wind. . . #stops #footsteps #wind #dust #portals #memories #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #august #tuesday #082322 #20222023-08-24T02:34:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/22/ghost/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_682104f5-f927-4008-8d2a-8f9becf3ad81.jpgimage_682104f5-f927-4008-8d2a-8f9becf3ad81Ghost Is death life’s ghost or / is life’s impermanence / the ghost of death? . . #ghost #life #death #impermanence #photo #poem #poetry #senryu #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #tuesday #082223 #20232023-08-23T03:57:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/21/echoes/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_05b7e9c3-222b-404a-ac08-772b458b15e7.jpgimage_05b7e9c3-222b-404a-ac08-772b458b15e7Echoes Flowers do not scream / when they die, but their beauty / echoes with the bees. . . #echoes #bees #flowers #scream #die #beauty #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #monday #082123 #20232023-08-22T03:38:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/20/eyes-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_dc4b77e1-9ed6-43ea-8afa-888fb6970f4d.jpgimage_dc4b77e1-9ed6-43ea-8afa-888fb6970f4dEyes Eyes on the flower, / a triangular face turns / and we both ponder. . . #head #face #eyes #flower #ponder #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #sunday #082023 #20232023-08-20T04:16:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/18/photo-finish-friday-fractured/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_fe437a43-48d7-4e87-9713-a7767802d63c.jpgimage_fe437a43-48d7-4e87-9713-a7767802d63cFractured Face turned toward the light, /sunflower leaves catch its shade, / fractured by sunlight. . . #fractured #shade #face #leaves #sunlight #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #friday #081823 #20232023-08-19T05:48:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/17/haiku-to-you-thursday-life-2/2023-08-18T03:01:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/16/alone-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_63a1a581-e949-4678-8f59-85762ff1ffd5.jpgimage_63a1a581-e949-4678-8f59-85762ff1ffd5Alone Evening fire descends. / Heavy clouds hang over roofs. / Sun goes home alone. . . #evening #alone #fire #sun #home #roofs #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #081623 #20232023-08-17T03:09:31+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/15/death-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_34e4c4f1-ea3d-47d1-915b-fcda6447fcaa.jpgimage_34e4c4f1-ea3d-47d1-915b-fcda6447fcaaDeath Death blames not itself; / it caries forth its duties / and bears its burden. . . #death #duties #burden #bears #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #tuesday #081523 #20232023-08-16T03:29:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/14/canyon/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_13673497-9981-4679-82ad-482551f48e77.jpgimage_13673497-9981-4679-82ad-482551f48e77Canyon Canyon in the sky — / carved by moisture, dust, and wind, / eroded by rain. . . #canyon #sky #moisture #dust #wind #rain #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #monday #081423 #20232023-08-15T03:59:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/13/cats-eye/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_72e2ee88-6c0d-4345-91c1-7deff1b39b37.jpgimage_72e2ee88-6c0d-4345-91c1-7deff1b39b37Eye Cat’s eye with the fence, / green as the summer lichen, / focused as the dark wood. . . #eye #fence #summer #lichen #wood #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #sunday #081323 #20232023-08-14T03:29:44+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/12/fingers/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_c88365fe-bce6-41a5-864f-a13ce0427b1a.jpgimage_c88365fe-bce6-41a5-864f-a13ce0427b1aFingers Fingers in the rain, / held in an August moment, / touching the green leaf. / . . #fingers #leaf #rain #moment #August #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #Saturday #081223 #20232023-08-13T03:54:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/11/patterns-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_36af5fa4-d883-4af7-ad5d-fa52cb6f57ce.jpgimage_36af5fa4-d883-4af7-ad5d-fa52cb6f57cePatterns “Wings,” said Icarus. “Freedom,” offered Daedalus. “Death,” decreed the Sun. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #wings #freedom #death #Icarus #Daedalus #sun #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #2021 #0811212023-08-12T03:48:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/11/photo-finish-friday-stray/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_f74ec764-1290-4991-9e46-ac6587e5d753.jpgimage_f74ec764-1290-4991-9e46-ac6587e5d753Stray Old black and white cat, stray as the descending sun, pauses for a meal. . . #cat #stray #sun #meal #old #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #friday #081123 #20232023-08-12T03:22:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/10/haiku-to-you-thursday-squirrel/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_e0263a47-3705-462c-9c31-67b6d79d0b96.jpgimage_e0263a47-3705-462c-9c31-67b6d79d0b96Squirrel A feast of old bread / the squirrel appreciates, / wary as I watch. . . #squirrel #wary #watch #feast #bread #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #thursday #082023 #20232023-08-11T03:58:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/10/evening-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_99aa5bba-9abb-4001-90e0-579e592255a8.jpgimage_99aa5bba-9abb-4001-90e0-579e592255a8Evening Evening summer starts / Sunlight shadows sunflowers. / Cicadas sing dusk. . . #poem #poetry #haiku #cicadas #summer #sunflower #evening #sunlight #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #august #monday #2021 #0809212023-08-10T04:06:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/09/beauty-4/2023-08-10T01:19:57+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/08/august-light/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_7c6c8233-cf01-4f3e-bd08-3e814bffb297.jpgimage_7c6c8233-cf01-4f3e-bd08-3e814bffb297August light Burnt red sunflower / hangs its heavy summer head / in the August light. . . #sunflower #summer #head #light #August #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #Tuesday #080823 #20232023-08-09T03:55:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/08/love-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_f065131e-cc75-4acb-9d4f-902ef6f899b1.jpgimage_f065131e-cc75-4acb-9d4f-902ef6f899b1Love Love is the big fish / that always gets away, but / leaves tall tales to tell. . . #love #fish #tall-tales #Beth #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #davidebooker #talltalestogo #august #monday #080822 #20222023-08-09T02:38:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/07/waits/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_4e3db3a7-f02e-440f-a146-213752bb305d.jpgimage_4e3db3a7-f02e-440f-a146-213752bb305dWaits Praying mantis waits, / perched on dying sunflower. / Death waits on death’s face. . . #waits #death #prayingmantis #sunflower #face #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #monday #080723 #20232023-08-08T03:57:04+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/06/dancing/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_7a4da590-3798-4b55-b2ea-3769f29e00f8.jpgimage_7a4da590-3798-4b55-b2ea-3769f29e00f8Dancing Light and wind and clouds / dance across roofs while tired eyes / watch evening step in. . . #dance #light #wind #clouds #roofs #eyes #evening #step #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #sunday #080623 #20232023-08-06T04:59:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/05/mythologies-as-poetry/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_9cda420d-9571-417b-8fb4-e2ca58d2e686.jpgimage_9cda420d-9571-417b-8fb4-e2ca58d2e686"There are now no more horizons. And with the disillusion of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of people but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together…. That is just what we are experiencing; and we are riding it to a new age, a new birth, a totally new condition of mankind – to which no one anywhere alive today can say that he has the key, the answer, the prophecy, to its dawn. Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a “presence” or “eternity” that is whole and entire in each. In this function all mythologies, all great poetries, and all mystic traditions are in accord; and where any such inspiriting vision remains effective in a civilization, everything and every creature within its range is alive. The first condition, therefore, that any mythology must fulfill if it is to render life to modern lives is that of cleansing the doors of perception to the wonder, at once terrible and fascinating, of ourselves and of the universe of which we are the ears and eyes and the mind." -Joseph Campbell From Myths to Live By pg. 263 https://www.jcf-shop.org/product-page/myths-to-live-by2023-08-05T18:00:42+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/04/photo-finish-friday-zebulon-skipper/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_bf5943cb-95f9-4d11-8c5c-e0669011fa12.jpgimage_bf5943cb-95f9-4d11-8c5c-e0669011fa12Zebulon skipper Raindrops on petals, / butterfly on sunflower. / August on the air. . . #raindrops #butterfly #august #petals #sunflower #air #zebulon-skipper #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #friday #080423 #20232023-08-05T03:53:08+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/04/hints-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_498db1d4-6043-4802-8d97-a9bb87f9090a.jpgimage_498db1d4-6043-4802-8d97-a9bb87f9090aHints Fall is dropping hints. / Yellow, brown, red, orange notes. / Winter whispers: "Yes." . . #yellow #notes #brown #fall #hints #winter #whispers #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #august #thursday #080422 #20222023-08-05T02:14:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/03/haiku-to-you-thursday-bent/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_9c1e8d90-8c40-4ca4-901b-2a3e8e422d59.jpgimage_9c1e8d90-8c40-4ca4-901b-2a3e8e422d59Bent The bent wire points to / misplaced expectation. / Something did not stay. . . #wire #bent #misplaced #expectation #photo #poem #haiku #poetry #knoxville #davidebooker #070223 #August #Thursday #080323 #20232023-08-04T02:39:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/02/plays/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_bbd8a5b6-e0c5-4c75-965a-89e9d9f23f84.jpgimage_bbd8a5b6-e0c5-4c75-965a-89e9d9f23f84Plays Time plays with shadows, with colors, with empty nights, with hands forgetting. . . #plays #time #colors #shadows #nights #hands #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #080223 #20232023-08-03T01:37:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/08/01/light-5/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/image_5ec9bdcb-fe1b-4506-8f88-0abe30bbfe9a.jpgimage_5ec9bdcb-fe1b-4506-8f88-0abe30bbfe9aLight A true patriot / sees not only the flag, but / the night approaching. . . #flag #patriot #night #true #light #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #talltalestogo #knoxville #august #monday #080122 #20222023-08-02T03:57:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/31/morning-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_a7c7141b-7e91-4969-840f-b91e2f965035.jpgimage_a7c7141b-7e91-4969-840f-b91e2f965035morning Behind the truck tire, breakfast a full memory, the cat cleans himself. . . #073123 #morning #breakfast #tire #cat #truck #memory #cleans #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #20232023-07-31T22:07:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/30/terraforming-reality-one-book-at-a-time/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_6dfbc7f2-ddb6-4711-a5d7-a299859e690f.jpgimage_6dfbc7f2-ddb6-4711-a5d7-a299859e690f2023-07-30T17:54:46+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/30/storm/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_328b481b-4d60-401e-8915-b2b5197dea73.jpgimage_328b481b-4d60-401e-8915-b2b5197dea73Storm Rain speeds earthward, / slams summer leaves and petals. / Thunder drives the night. . . #storm #rain #summer #leaves #petals #thunder #night #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #july #sunday #073023 #20232023-07-30T04:18:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/28/seat/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_88c42da1-2602-4e14-82a8-278c9175c628.jpgimage_88c42da1-2602-4e14-82a8-278c9175c628Seat Somewhere a seat waits: / departure or arrival. / love or loneliness. . . #072823 #tennesseetheatre #seat #departure #arrival #love #loneliness #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #july #20232023-07-29T03:53:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/27/haiku-to-you-thursday-bee/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_66e782b4-339d-4b30-b6b8-8270f455c3ed.jpgimage_66e782b4-339d-4b30-b6b8-8270f455c3edBee Bee darts among blooms, / gathering summer’s pollen, / whispering of fall. . . #bee #blooms #pollen #summer #fall #whispering #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #talltalestogo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #july #thursday #072723 #20232023-07-28T02:15:35+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/25/cheerful/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_5e68b6cc-5661-4a59-8058-7e0ac5ee3818.jpgimage_5e68b6cc-5661-4a59-8058-7e0ac5ee3818Cheerful While others wither, / some flowers remain cheerful / in the days still here. . . #wither #flowers #cheerful #days #photo #poem # poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #tuesday #072523 #20232023-07-26T02:02:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/24/fairy-parachute/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_6e177c50-d42d-43fc-a5a1-3beadc1dae71.jpgimage_6e177c50-d42d-43fc-a5a1-3beadc1dae71Fairy parachute (Note: Fairy parachute is a fungus a/k/a Marasmiellus candidus. Photo by friend and accomplished photographer Brian McDaniel.) I found a fairy parachute hiding in the woods. I looked around and found no fairy, though hoping that I would. I looked about and under the trees, bushes, and even vines. By the time I was done, it was dark. It was a quarter past nine. I turned and started heading for home. Only then did I soon realize how far I had roamed. Any way I turned and walked, I remained alone. The moon was rising high. It peeked through the trees. A chill came into the night and a weakness into my knees. I did not want to be alone in this light empty place. If I had a companion, he’d see the horror on my face. I did not know what to do as an old barn owl cried out. Then a bat fluttered overhead and I gave a piercing shout. I was petrified when someone said, “Come now. Turn about.” Had I heard a voice? The idea was absurd. I felt myself collapsing without saying a word. “Stand tall, my good man,” the voice commanded. “It is a pickle we are in and find ourselves so landed.” The voice was small but mighty as if it came from far away. But when I slowly turned and looked, I saw the old fairy. He waved me to his little fire and I listened to his music play. He sang a song and told a joke, well, probably a few. Then he shared a bit of his grog. It tasted like morning dew. I yawned and stretched and calamitied into a boneless heap. Surprisingly, I quickly fell into a deep and dreamless sleep. I first heard a bird chirping. Then felt a butterfly on my nose. I slowly roused to find myself naked – absolutely no clothes. To this day I made a mistake, one I unfortunately chose. I never saw that fairy again, nor his parachute, But if I ever do, I will be one big brute. It is hard to leave a forest dress in your birthday suit. What I don’t understand is why he even did it. I doubt he could ever wear my shirt or even fit in it. And my pants would only be good for a parachute. There was no money in the pockets. I was broke to boot. So, now you’ve heard my tale of woe and how I wound up here. Brother can you spare me a shirt and maybe a pint of beer?2023-07-24T06:27:53+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/23/blustering/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_36999487-9295-45c3-afcc-31bc1b64496b.jpgimage_36999487-9295-45c3-afcc-31bc1b64496bBlustering Blustering upward, / dark below and light on high, / mountain in the sky. . . #blustering #mountain #sky #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #sunday #0723232023-07-23T04:22:36+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/21/city/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_4fc0acc8-e5fe-4265-a112-fab0c8de3fbd.jpgimage_4fc0acc8-e5fe-4265-a112-fab0c8de3fbdCity Green near, blue far back. / Mankind’s river flows between / concrete, trees, and dreams. . . #concrete #dreams #mankind #trees #river #green #blue #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #july #thursday #072122 #20222023-07-22T03:57:23+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/21/photo-finish-friday-blooms/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_8bf425bc-4ded-4ea1-9f6b-184d6b341f29.jpgimage_8bf425bc-4ded-4ea1-9f6b-184d6b341f29Blooms The cone flowers bloom. / Beauty brief, yet eternal. / The cone flowers die. . . #flowers #beauty #brief #cone #eternal #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #bloom #july #friday #072123 #20232023-07-22T02:53:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/20/haiku-to-you-thursday-rain-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_75bb60c1-6456-4569-a32e-dd0ee4343204.jpgimage_75bb60c1-6456-4569-a32e-dd0ee4343204Rain Rain hits the petals / while anthers still beckon bees. / The lily endures. . . #rain #anthers #petals #beckon #bees #lily #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #thursday #072023 #20232023-07-21T03:38:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/19/both/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_6f4b1dc3-cdec-4c7e-9ed6-560b040d243d.jpgimage_6f4b1dc3-cdec-4c7e-9ed6-560b040d243dBoth One sunflower dies. / Others struggle to be born. / The stalk supports both. . . #071923 #sunflower #dies #born #struggle #stalk #supports #both #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #wednesday #20232023-07-20T03:53:15+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/17/bowed/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_96777157-26e8-48e3-bd75-306e93591215.jpgimage_96777157-26e8-48e3-bd75-306e93591215Bowed Discarded seed husks / litter the sunflower’s back, / its face bowed earthward. . . #bowed #seed #husks #sunflower #face #earthward #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #071723 #20232023-07-18T03:54:54+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/17/disc-florets-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_65454976-c1cc-4231-90b1-b53ee4285f10.jpgimage_65454976-c1cc-4231-90b1-b53ee4285f10Disc florets Within the one, many. / Disc florets bloom and then seed. / New sunflowers loom. . . #disc_florets #bloom #sunflower #seed #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #july #sunday #071022 #20222023-07-17T16:09:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/17/tirelessly-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_8ed08253-e811-48d7-9b73-e6ba74e0d57f.jpgimage_8ed08253-e811-48d7-9b73-e6ba74e0d57fTirelessly Bumblebee works / in a flower universe / tirelessly new. . . #bumblebee #universe #flowers #tireless #new #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #july #tuesday #071222 #20222023-07-17T16:01:12+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/16/closed/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_325ec754-986a-4932-9a68-56e96dd3d7a5.jpgimage_325ec754-986a-4932-9a68-56e96dd3d7a5Closed The lock and chain / say this gate is not for you. / This garden is closed. . . #closed #lock #gate #chain #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #july #sunday #071623 #20232023-07-17T03:51:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/15/fruit/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_1bb2299e-a7c7-47ca-b28d-1d7c12fcdbad.jpgimage_1bb2299e-a7c7-47ca-b28d-1d7c12fcdbadFruit Fruit picking ending. / Flavor memories surging. / Fingers hand to tongue. . . #fruit #fingers #flavor #tongue #memories #picking #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #saturday #071523 #20232023-07-16T03:51:55+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/15/portents/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_f643a01d-31da-4fe2-a7c2-408d26c5402b.jpgimage_f643a01d-31da-4fe2-a7c2-408d26c5402bPortents Some signs and portents / flower in common places / where norms are ignored. . . #071318 #portents #signs #flower #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july2023-07-15T04:11:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/14/photo-finish-friday-erotica/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_d86b4860-ebfd-4dbe-a607-ca844205d3ad.jpgimage_d86b4860-ebfd-4dbe-a607-ca844205d3adErotica Garden erotica. / Bung hole of my Roloise. / Green tomato porn. . . #roloise #tomato #porn #garden #erotica #hole #bung #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #humor #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #friday #071423 #20232023-07-14T19:23:11+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/13/haiku-to-you-thursday-space/2023-07-14T03:48:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/12/vessel/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_62c86bc4-fc89-4166-9499-e072984a9bf0.jpgimage_62c86bc4-fc89-4166-9499-e072984a9bf0Vessel Fading sunflower, / ragged in the morning sun, / vessel now of seeds. . . #vessel #seeds #sunflower #sun #morning #ragged #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #wednesday #071223 #20232023-07-13T03:07:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/10/tiger-lily-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_53a82c71-eb54-4efe-900f-4924e9ef6378.jpgimage_53a82c71-eb54-4efe-900f-4924e9ef6378Tiger lily As summer rain falls, / the tiger lilies display / their spotted beauty. . . #display #tiger-lily #rain #summer #beauty #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #071023 #20232023-07-11T03:45:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/08/the-next-wall/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_bec7e756-00a4-4130-ae25-4469076975a0.jpgimage_bec7e756-00a4-4130-ae25-4469076975a0The next wall Built with hopes and bones, / we assail the next brick wall. / Mortal to mortar. . . #wall #mortar #mortal #bones #hopes #assail #brick #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #happyhollar #davidebooker #july #saturday #070823 #20232023-07-09T03:09:27+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/07/photo-finish-friday-summer/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_a67054a6-f0da-4c53-9cae-2de0823b0935.jpgimage_a67054a6-f0da-4c53-9cae-2de0823b0935Summer Summer has its song. / Chords of languid heat, love lost, / and words bound in time. . . #summer #song #love #heat #words #time #chords #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #friday #2023 #0707232023-07-08T03:43:24+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/06/haiku-to-you-thursday-reflection/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_62327aed-e9cb-4fc5-9680-4c167e580eb2.jpgimage_62327aed-e9cb-4fc5-9680-4c167e580eb2Reflection In dying waters, / abandoned building ripples / upon reflection. . . #reflection #waters #building #abandoned #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #july #thursday #070623 #20232023-07-06T23:30:49+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/05/back-down-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_a7aeeeaf-ba44-45aa-a95f-d87cce037aba.jpgimage_a7aeeeaf-ba44-45aa-a95f-d87cce037abaBack down Back down to the floor. / Heart upward toward the ceiling. / Belly scratch ready. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #belly #heart #back #floor #ceiling #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photooftheday #poemoftheday #july #monday #2021 #0705212023-07-06T03:52:50+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/05/back-down-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_044d7c12-fd99-4995-ad99-0f49f18b5c04.jpgimage_044d7c12-fd99-4995-ad99-0f49f18b5c04Back down Back down to the floor. / Heart upward toward the ceiling. / Belly scratch ready. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #belly #heart #back #floor #ceiling #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photooftheday #poemoftheday #july #monday #2021 #0705212023-07-06T03:50:33+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/05/lilies/2023-07-05T22:31:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/04/voices-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_bb6e6720-e103-4401-a0fb-7879669f534e.jpgimage_bb6e6720-e103-4401-a0fb-7879669f534eVoices Endless voices shout: / our freedom, where does it bloom? / In all hearts of love. . . #voices #freedom #bloom #hearts #love #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #flag #july4th #talltalestogo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #monday #2022 #0704222023-07-05T03:30:21+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/03/holding-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_16b0d570-8bf3-42f3-833e-05e3b9a763ed.jpgimage_16b0d570-8bf3-42f3-833e-05e3b9a763edHolding Sunflowers live, then / sunflowers die, each bloom holds / life’s brief monument. . . #holding #sunflowers #live #die #bloom #brief #monument #photo #poetry #poem #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #july #sunday #070322 #20222023-07-04T03:57:29+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/03/traveling/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_5b0190f5-cb12-4415-96e5-930065f8f9ae.jpgimage_5b0190f5-cb12-4415-96e5-930065f8f9aeTraveling Beginnings and ends / woven into make believe. / Memories accent. . . #traveling #beginnings #ends #make-believe #woven #memories #accent #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #northknoxville #davidebooker #july #2023 #070323 #monday2023-07-03T23:48:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/03/same-is-true-for-art/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_c5fcde1e-87c0-4c84-992a-b64c876ef2f6.jpgimage_c5fcde1e-87c0-4c84-992a-b64c876ef2f62023-07-03T22:09:26+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/02/clinging/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_f2621e3f-0125-4b8d-bbd0-25aa697722f5.jpgimage_f2621e3f-0125-4b8d-bbd0-25aa697722f5Clinging Yellow roses climb / the side of the old building, / clinging to a dream. . . #roses #building #dream #climb #clinging #070223 #2023 #poem #poetry #photo #haiku #knoxville #davidebooker #July #Sunday2023-07-03T03:59:10+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/07/01/poop/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image_d6597541-34cc-40f2-8ae2-6cc42f609386.jpgimage_d6597541-34cc-40f2-8ae2-6cc42f609386Poop Poop on the petals. / Beauty faces rejection, / but ants aren’t bothered. . . #poop #ants #rejection #beauty #070123 #Saturday #oldnorthknoxville #faces #davidebooker #july #2023 #saturday2023-07-02T02:43:00+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/30/desire/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_9dcd5640-cfef-42c6-9d24-aed26b13a3d1.jpgimage_9dcd5640-cfef-42c6-9d24-aed26b13a3d1Desire Tomato’s first blush. / Kiss of rain, caress of heat. / Season of desire. . . #tomato #season #kiss #blush ##caress #desire #rain #heat #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #friday #063023 #20332023-07-01T03:58:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/30/english-i-say/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_98a1856e-2184-478b-830c-cd4567f56b8d.jpgimage_98a1856e-2184-478b-830c-cd4567f56b8dSuch vulgar venality voices voluminous volumes verifying very vituperative vociferous vilification vouchsafing the vagabond verity of English’s vocabulary. Verily, I say.2023-07-01T01:43:39+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/30/threshold-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_0158b59c-72f9-49c2-8317-3527ae74806d.jpgimage_0158b59c-72f9-49c2-8317-3527ae74806dThreshold Today speaks decay. / Memory echoes the past. / Threshold whispers, “Why?” . . #threshold #why #echoes #whispers #today #memory #speaks #decay #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #davidebooker #knoxville #talltalestogo #june #saturday #062522 #20222023-06-30T17:48:06+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/29/journeys-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_53110d12-24b3-4113-aeec-f31e3edd3d10.jpgimage_53110d12-24b3-4113-aeec-f31e3edd3d10Journeys Sadness, hope, and smiles, / journeys end as they began, / sadness, hope, and smiles. . . #journeys #sadness #hope #smiles #end #begin #photo #poem #poetry #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #tuesday #062822 #20222023-06-30T03:40:18+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/29/illusions/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_add96ddc-0498-40c8-83cc-c81daa0aa0b3.jpgimage_add96ddc-0498-40c8-83cc-c81daa0aa0b3Illusions I hold in my hand / the seeds of my illusions / and the blooms of yours. . . #illusions #seeds #blooms #hand #photo #poetry #poem #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #thursday #062923 #20232023-06-30T02:54:14+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/28/tiger-lily/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_6074075c-4c32-4f36-b04f-d629fb90527f.jpgimage_6074075c-4c32-4f36-b04f-d629fb90527fTiger lily No, Mr. Baker, it is not an invasion. It’s a Tiger lily. The invasion comes a few days later with beer and outdoor cooking. That’s when the aliens —grill your meat —light your fireworks —conflagrate and celebrate your auto-da-fe future. . . #humor #poem #poetry #satire #tigerlily #flower #alien #invasion #auto-da-fe #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photo #June #Wednesday #062823 #20232023-06-29T03:57:43+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/28/up-2/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_824e0594-ea53-4995-9b31-488863d5fe77.jpgimage_824e0594-ea53-4995-9b31-488863d5fe77Up Thunder teases / up among the deaf, gray clouds. / Dreams await relief. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #dreams #relief #thunder #teases #clouds #deaf #up #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #monday #2021 #0628212023-06-28T23:51:58+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/28/sky-3/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_be8229d3-e1be-42df-bd92-7228144500c0.jpgimage_be8229d3-e1be-42df-bd92-7228144500c0Sky The evening crow caws. / The breeze nuzzles sunflowers. / Clouds slid against the sky. . . #sky #crow #sunflowers #clouds #breeze #evening #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #tuesday #062623 #20232023-06-28T04:00:20+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/25/anointed/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_cc502353-12e2-4932-91a4-582ab17b0dbe.jpgimage_cc502353-12e2-4932-91a4-582ab17b0dbeAnointed Sunflowers shed. / Golden petals fall on leaves anointed by death. . . #anointed #death #sunflowers #petals #leaves #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #June #Sunday #062523 #20232023-06-26T03:56:34+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/24/one-hand/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_c88178e0-f7ca-4879-9f29-48e529b7602b.jpgimage_c88178e0-f7ca-4879-9f29-48e529b7602b2023-06-25T03:53:52+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.com/2023/06/23/photo-finish-friday-lost/https://talltalestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image_d4487e5b-1168-411a-af4a-30cd5eeeba5d.jpgimage_d4487e5b-1168-411a-af4a-30cd5eeeba5dLost Wet, folded lily, / lost glove at a funeral, / empty of embrace. . . #lost #empty #lily #glove #funeral #embrace #wet #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #thursday #062323 #20232023-06-24T02:07:38+00:00monthlyhttps://talltalestogo.comdaily1.02026-04-03T04:00:18+00:00