
Waiting
Even in beauty /
Decay lives, carrying a /
Valise of tomorrows.
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#valise #decay #beauty #tomorrows #poem #poetry #decay #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #042622 #2022

Waiting
Even in beauty /
Decay lives, carrying a /
Valise of tomorrows.
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#valise #decay #beauty #tomorrows #poem #poetry #decay #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #042622 #2022

Kiss
Deep within spring clouds, /
beauty forms and floats away; /
born of a rain’s kiss.
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#beauty #born #rain #clouds #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #april #friday #040822 #2022

Remembering
Even in fixed death /
there is the wounding beauty /
of remembrance.
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#remembering #death #wounding #beauty #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #march #saturday #032523 #2023
Beauty
An old bud withered. /
A young bud might not bear fruit. /
Still, beauty lived.
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#bud #withered #fruit #beauty #old #young #lived #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #saturday #012823 #2023


Haiku 2018
Bands of bright white rays /
Sun peeking through slanted blinds /
Beauty shadows light.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #words #photography #light #shadow #beauty #sun #shades #blinds #slats #bands #111718

Unfolding
Unfolding flower /
reaching into the moment. /
Effort and beauty.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #flower sunflower #moment #effort #beauty #september #wednesday #2020 #oldnorthknoxville #photooftheday #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #092320
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Burdens
Blooms give way to seeds. /
Beauty and function balanced. /
Hope burdens summer.
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#hope #blooms #beauty #function #balance #summer #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #july #friday #072222 #2022

Beckoning
Summer’s ray florets /
beckon with vibrant beauty. /
Sterile enticement.
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#ray #floret #summer #beckon #beauty #sterile #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #tuesday #071222 #2022
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Traveling
Beauty with a bee /
working around the flower. /
Circumambulate.
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#flower #circumambulate #bee #beauty #photo #travel #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #thursday #070722 #2022
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The Devil’s Tongue
Silent in beauty /
Fiery as a summer day /
Speak now, Devil’s Tongue.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #devilstongue #flower #summer #june #saturday #2020 #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #knoxville #tennessee #061320
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