The Greenway
The Greenway awaits /
Your friends and neighbors do, too /
Kindness blooms anew.
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Filed under 2019, haiku, photo by David E. Booker, Poetry by David E. Booker
Now
We now return you /
To your regularly scheduled lies. /
The stupid returns.
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Filed under 2021, haiku, Photo Finish Friday, Poetry by David E. Booker, TV show
Sweet Heat
Sweet heat of Jesus /
Tastes full-bodied on your tongue /
Psalm to calm it down.
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Filed under 2020, haiku, photo by David E. Booker, Poetry by David E. Booker
Olympic rings
Golden, deep fat fried, /
Round signs of Spring — Onion rings. /
Olympic pleasure.
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Into the Spring
Lift your hand sky high, /
A soft serve to the new Spring. /
Ice cream jockey rides.
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Rebirth
Life is born in pain /
Reborn within each crisis. /
Love anew again.
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Filed under 2020, haiku, Poetry by David E. Booker
Photo from Staunton News Leader, 1936
Poetic justice
You divorced me today,
But you can’t take my words away.
My words are worth
All your penny love on this old earth.
You claim you are owed
For being subjected to my odes.
You’ll receive neither cent nor couplet—
I don’t care if penalties double it.
This divorce has no rhyme nor reason,
So, love, take a haiku for the season.
I have given you my best.
I doubt you can stanza the rest.
David E. Booker
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World Poetry Day
Flames of green
Flames of green, come Spring /
Buds erupt: wild, jaunty things. /
Leaves no more unseen.
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Filed under 2021, haiku, photo by David E. Booker, Poetry by David E. Booker
Hanging around
Cold hanging around /
cleaving its final moments /
to buds come too soon.
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Filed under 2018, haiku, photo by David E. Booker, Poetry by David E. Booker
Sharing
One squirrel in the ring. /
Another squirrel waits and wants. /
Sunlight and bird seed.
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