Threshold
Rival bumblebees /
joust across the dark flower: /
pollen and honor.
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#threshold #pollen #honor #bummblebee #flower #joust #rivals #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #talltalestogo #oldnorthknoxville #june #friday #062422 # 2022
Tag Archives: flower
“No return”
No return
It feels good, Beth said. /
She snapped off dead lily heads, /
dropped them to the ground. /
This evening, I did the same, /
but she did not return.
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#waka #tanka #haiku #lily #head #dead #evening #beth #photo #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #tuesday #062122 #2022
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker
“Incantation”
Incantation
Fire of the sunlight, /
Lucifer Crocosmia. /
Incantation’s tongue.
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#lucifer #fire #sunlight #crocosmia #incantation #photo #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #monday #062022 #2022
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker
Photo finish Friday: “Pollination”
Pollination
Come hither, dear bee, /
delights from me to thee. /
New flowers make we.
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#bee #me #flowers #we #pollination #hither #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #friday #061722 #2022
“Window flower”
Window flower
Peeking through the glass, /
Orchid searches for the sun, /
seeking assurance.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #orchid #peeking #seeking #assurance #glass #photooftheday #poemoftheday #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #tuesday #2021 #060821
Filed under 2021, haiku, Old North Knoxville
“Watch”
Watch
I watch the flower, /
raindrops dangling and waiting, /
as do I for you.
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#raindrops #flower #see #dangling #waiting #you #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #tuesday #060722 #2022
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker
“See me”
See me
My beauty is now /
In this moment, at this place. /
See me; see yourself.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #see #beauty #me #yourself #lily #oldnorthknoxville #knoxville #tennessee #flower #060420
Filed under 2020, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker
“Once”
Once
Once proud and erect, /
open and putrid, this corpse /
Is corpse bloom no more.
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#corpse #flower #bloom #proud #erect #putrid #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #053122 #2022
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker
“Nature”
Nature
Beatific bee /
finds flower in full career. /
They say it won’t last.
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#bee #flower #career #last #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #may #monday #053022 #2022
Filed under 2022, haiku, Old North Knoxville, photo, photo by David E. Booker, poem, poetry, Poetry by David E. Booker
Photo finish Friday: “Fades”
Fades
Love in the Mist fades, /
grows spindly and goes to seed /
in the ground and heart.
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#love-in-the-mist #flower #seeds #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #ildnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #friday #052022 #2022
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