April 23, 2025 · 10:51 pm
Last
Be not afraid of /
viewing an iris as though /
it were your last one.
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#last #iris #view #afraid #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #wednesday #042325 #2025
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April 9, 2025 · 6:27 pm
Bringing
Sun said to Iris: /
“I bring forth a new Spring day. /
You bring forth new life.”
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#haiku #poem #poetry #sun #iris #spring #life #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photooftheday #poemoftheday #april #friday #2021 #040921 #haiga
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May 14, 2024 · 11:32 pm
Find
Find the mean May rains.
Find the beauty in the pain.
Find the Iris bloom.
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#find #rain #beauty #pain #iris #bloom #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #051424 #2024
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May 5, 2024 · 10:18 pm
Skirt
Iris rise from dark soil, /
dress in a skirt of May rain, /
bloom and fall from light.
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#skirt #iris #rain #May #light #bloom #soil #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #Sunday #050524 #2024
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May 1, 2024 · 10:54 pm
Cathedral folds
Pleasant scent of grapes /
within the cathedral folds /
of purple Iris.
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#cathedral #folds #pleasant #grapes #iris #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #wednesday #050124 #2024
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April 27, 2024 · 5:37 pm
Embrace
Speak not your joys /
but embrace them like Iris /
touched by morning rain.
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#embrace #speak #joys #morning #rain #iris #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #saturday #042724 #2024
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April 26, 2024 · 3:49 am
Thief
Beside the street, /
in a flowering Eden /
a snake jerked up Iris.
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#thief #snake #iris #eden #street #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #friday #042624 #2024
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April 19, 2024 · 10:39 pm
Cocoon
An Iris cocooned /
in its purple spire working /
to bloom into now.
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April 15, 2024 · 10:41 pm
Pluck
To pluck the sun, /
pluck the Iris from the Earth /
and leave one more tear.
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#pluck #iris #sun #earth #leave #tear #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #april #monday #041524 #2024
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April 13, 2024 · 9:51 pm
Blushes
The Iris blushes /
only for the color, not /
for embarrassment.
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#iris #blushes #color #embarrassment #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #okdnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #041323 #2023
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