June 6, 2025 · 8:01 pm
Icarus
Icarus, soaring /
between the sunflower and /
the sun, hoping.
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#icarus #sunflower #sun #forgetting #soaring #hope #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #sunday #060522 #2022 #haiga
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May 18, 2025 · 7:20 pm
Hail Mary
The Hail Mary here /
Is neither pass nor prayer /
But hope for the creek.
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#hailmary #pass #prayer #hope #creek #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #firstcreekgreenway #davidebooker #bethabooker #may #050518 #2018
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March 30, 2025 · 12:39 pm
Holding
Pandora held her hope. /
Schrödinger held his question. /
I hold blooms and rain.
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#holding #pandora #schrodinger #hope #question #blooms #rain #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #march #sunday #033025 #2025 #senryu
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March 10, 2025 · 12:31 am
Pastel sky
Pastel evening sky /
swirls with faded hope for more /
than a patchwork night.
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#pastel #evening #sky #hope #patchwork #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #monday #030424p #031025 #2025
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March 7, 2025 · 11:59 pm
Twilight
Sunlight and twilight /
end of day into night. /
Cars and hope delight.
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February 18, 2025 · 11:44 pm
Flag
Shinning in the sun, /
lifted by a light wind, /
may it still hold hope.
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m me
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February 6, 2025 · 11:27 pm
New hope
February jonquils, /
early yellow among brown, /
herald spring’s new hope.
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#hope #february #jonquils #herald #spring #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #thursday #020625 #2025
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November 6, 2024 · 11:57 pm
On the wall
The body is gone. /
Prison is more than a place. /
Hope hangs on the wall.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #poet #photo #prison #brushymountainstatepenitentiary #tennessee #writing #writer #davidebooker #prisoncell #wall #drawing #body #hope #haiga #110619 #2019
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May 5, 2024 · 11:21 pm
Hope
The Hail Mary here /
Is neither pass nor prayer /
But hope for the creek.
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#050518 #BethBooker #HailMary #creek #hope #May #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #firstcreekgreenway #cleanup #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker
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February 17, 2024 · 8:41 pm
Grabbing
Bare limbs grab at Moon, /
fingers clutching through night fog. /
My ghost escapes hope.
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#night #limbs #fingers #moon #fog #ghost #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #february #thursday #021722 #2022
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