Voices
Endless voices shout: /
our freedom, where does it bloom? /
In all hearts of love.
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Holding
Sunflowers live, then /
sunflowers die, each bloom holds /
life’s brief monument.
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Bread line
Line up, single file. /
You have to cool off a while. /
A pan handler’s dream.
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Filed under 2020, haiku, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker, puns
Heat
Squirrel prostrated /
By the heat: flaccid, empty, /
Victim indiscrete.
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The stream of color /
the leaves of sound /
the grounding of light /
into the Earth we are bound.
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Year one
Homemade birthday cake. /
Nineteen years, including this /
first year on her own.
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Many songs
Nature is rhythm: /
many songs chirping, buzzing, /
murmuring onward.
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Arc
Day lily dying /
Arcing old comet passing /
New flowering life.
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Journeys
Sadness, hope, and smiles, /
journeys end as they began, /
sadness, hope, and smiles.
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Some thrones
Sometimes the throne is /
a mulch pile, a dead threshold /
waiting to be thrown.
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