May 21, 2025 · 8:55 pm

Desires
Through its own desires, /
the Virginia Spiderwort /
returns and blooms.
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#desires #virginiaspiderwort #returns #blooms #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #may #wednesday #052125 #2025
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May 19, 2025 · 11:33 pm

Ripe
Reach for your today. /
Blueberry is ripe when ripe. /
Celebrate it now.
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#ripe #celebrate #blueberry #today #reach #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #monday #051925 #2025
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May 19, 2025 · 12:27 am

A British sentry cuts a lonely picture as he stands at his post at sunrise in France, March 1915.
Battlefield
Battlefield sentry, /
fearing with the sunrise that /
fog and hope will lift.
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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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May 17, 2025 · 11:59 pm

Harsh
Harsh, the sky, burns gray /
a smoldering blanket over /
over soil and sail.
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#haiku, #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #harsh #sky #blanket #sail #soul #may #saturday #051725 #2025
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May 17, 2025 · 11:08 pm
Devil’s love
Love-in-a-Mist is /
also Devil-in-a-bush. /
Such is motherhood.
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#devil #love #mist #bush #motherhood #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #sunday #051224 #2024
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May 16, 2025 · 11:34 pm

First
Yellow and skyward, /
the first Susan of the season. /
Flower and freedom.
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May 14, 2025 · 11:51 pm

Homegrown
Homegrown blue- and rasp- /
berries held in a ball cap: /
stains soak in the crown.
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#homegrown #cap #blueberries #raspberries #stains #crown #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #051325 #2025
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May 14, 2025 · 10:04 am
Curiosity
Curiosity /
builds wonder from achievement /
and knowledge from hope.
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#051112 #2012 #curiosity #rover #wonder #achievement #knowledge #hope #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photonotmine #mars #davidebooker #may
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May 11, 2025 · 3:02 pm

Author
Author, dear author, /
I relent, I repent, I plead: /
“Give me one more chance!”
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