May 17, 2023 · 11:51 pm
Eye
With gentle beauty, /
Peony, the eye of love, /
opens into light.
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#peony #light #beauty #love #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #051722 #2022
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May 17, 2023 · 11:24 pm
Leave
I leave a light on /
and though I don’t expect you, /
it is my message.
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#leave #message #light #expect #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #wednesday #051723 #2023
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May 16, 2023 · 11:46 pm
Too soon
The birds or the breeze, /
the rain or maybe the sun, /
picked berries too soon.
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#too-soon #berries #bids #breeze #rain #sun #picked #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #051623 #2023
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May 15, 2023 · 11:37 pm
Ripening
Each green blueberry /
a process of ripening /
timelessness into taste.
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#ripening #blueberry #timelessness #taste #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #monday #051523 #2023
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May 14, 2023 · 11:00 pm
Folded beauty
The folded beauty /
Of fading flower petals /
Ends not Spring’s bloom.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #may #2020 #petal #spring #bloom #beauty #photo #davidebooker #iris #thursday #oldnorthknoxville #knoxville #tennessee #yellow #051420
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May 14, 2023 · 7:12 pm
New myth
Eve didn’t eat first /
and he didn’t wait until ripe. /
It was the serpent.
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#myth #new #eve #serpent #eat #ripe #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #may #sunday #051423 #2023
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May 13, 2023 · 11:43 pm
Rhymes with orange
He bickers and whines. /
One is eight or nine. /
One wears a red tie.
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#poem #haiku #davidebooker #poetry #poet #writing #writer #may #saturday #2019 #orange #redtie #child #whines #bickers #trump #photo #050419
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May 13, 2023 · 10:15 pm
Stark
Cruel evening light /
renders its stark contrasts. /
Corners tucked in night.
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#cruel #evening #light #contrasts #corners #tucked #night #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #saturday #051323 #2023
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May 13, 2023 · 9:00 am
Headline
Happy Mother’s Day! /
Early Detection Saves Lives. /
My mother’s or mine?
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#haiku #poem #poetry #newspaper #headline #poor_placement #satire #mothersday #davidebooker
#may #sunday #2021 #050821
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May 11, 2023 · 11:46 pm
What’s sup
Young blueberries plump, /
on you will I one day sup /
or will birds fill up?
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#blueberries #sup #birds #plump #young #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #thursday #051123 #2023
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