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Haiku and photo: “Hanging the Moon”

Hanging the Moon

Let us hang the Moon /

Tonight and forever: /

You, me, Sun, and Love.

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Photo finish Friday (and haiku) “In the window”

In the window

Sunlight fades from sky. /

Evening rises in windows. /

House in silhouette.

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#haiku #photooftheday #poem #poetry #windows #sunlight #evening #sky #silhouette #house #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #tennessee #Friday #february #2021

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Photo finish Friday (and haiku): Legacy

Legacy

Clouds and shadows painted /

With tints of winter sunlight. /

Bare limbs full of gray.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #winter #tree #paint #davidebooker #gray #clouds #paint #bare #limbs

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Photo finish Friday (and haiku): “Supply lines”

Supply lines

Watches and warnings: /

Snowpocalypse approaching. /

An inch from the end.

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#january #tuesday #snowpocalypse #2019 #haiku #poem #poet #poetry #writing #writer #snow #watches #warnings #inch #end #photo #humor #davidebooker

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Photo finish Friday (and haiku: “Let us”

Let us

Let us ride balloons: /

Up to the heavens and moons. /

Light as grace and stars.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #balloons #moons #heavens #light #grace #stars #photooftheday #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #january #knoxville #tennessee #friday #2021

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Photo finish Friday: “Go left at the fork”

Go left at the fork.

Go right at the spoon.

Go under the knife

And jump over the moon.

The banana split

During its salad days.

It was easy as pie

To cake walk away.

He’s such a dish.

She’s gone to pot.

They’re in a stew

That’s boiling hot.

His goose is cook.

Her mind is fried.

Don’t butter them up,

They’re raw inside.

If you egg her on

The yoke’s on you.

She’s no apple of your eye

By the time she’s through.

The tables will be turned.

The empty will satiate

As you’re rounding third

And trying to steal home plate.

Life is a pickle,

This you can’t deny.

It’s the pot or frying pan

No mater how hard you try.

You can stir up a frenzy.

You can sift through the rubble.

The ingredients are there

To pickle all your troubles.

When things are ajar

And you feel in a jam

Just remember life will gel

If you don’t act the ham.

Go left at the fork.

Go right at the spoon.

Go under the knife.

Do your dishes soon.

–David E. Booker

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Book review: “I am Disgusting”

I am Disgusting: Poetry for a Movement by Jeff McCarley

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Often witty, almost always crass, sometimes hilarious — but not for those with a squeamish nature. I won this book in a Good Reads giveaway. If I could give half stars, this one would be 3.5 stars. My main criticism is that at times I felt it was a bit repetitive. Maybe that was intentional. The book contains poems that rhyme and haiku. It has an “Ode to Poop,” and a parody poem entitled “Craven,” taking its structure from the Poe poem, “The Raven.” Part of me was a bit surprised so much could be squeezed out of such an offal subject.



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Photo finish Friday (and haiku): “See me”

My beauty is now /
In this moment, at this place. /
See me; see yourself.
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Photo finish Friday: “Tudoring”

The reign in Splain Falls /

manely on the plane. /

And what misses goes down in Seine. /

I cried a river when you road the train. /

Me heart aorta be of a tougher strain. /

The reign in Splain Falls /

manely on the plane. /

It splatters against the window, /

but I feel no pane.

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