April 14, 2025 · 2:01 am
The coat
Spring dons its green coat, /
undertaking new life while /
wearing death beneath.
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March 25, 2025 · 11:25 pm
Remembering
Even in fixed death /
there is the wounding beauty /
of remembrance.
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November 3, 2024 · 1:18 pm
Death
Death is an entry, /
a metaphor unfolding, /
a flower empty.
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September 3, 2024 · 10:50 pm
Behold
Behold gnarled death, /
brown in the September light, /
crisp on the fingers.
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October 27, 2023 · 8:51 pm
Seasonal 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.
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August 22, 2023 · 11:57 pm
Ghost
Is death life’s ghost or /
is life’s impermanence /
the ghost of death?
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#ghost #life #death #impermanence #photo #poem #poetry #senryu #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #tuesday #082223 #2023
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August 17, 2023 · 11:01 pm
Life
Each life is lived /
in the uncertainty of /
the hour of its death.
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August 15, 2023 · 11:29 pm
Death
Death blames not itself; /
it caries forth its duties /
and bears its burden.
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#death #duties #burden #bears #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #tuesday #081523 #2023
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August 11, 2023 · 11:48 pm
Patterns
“Wings,” said Icarus.
“Freedom,” offered Daedalus.
“Death,” decreed the Sun.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #wings #freedom #death #Icarus #Daedalus #sun #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #wednesday #2021 #081121
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August 7, 2023 · 11:57 pm
Waits
Praying mantis waits, /
perched on dying sunflower. /
Death waits on death’s face.
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