May 11, 2025 · 12:32 am
One tries
One lies and one stands, /
cat in darkness, dog in light. /
Wonder and return.
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May 10, 2025 · 3:53 pm
Mother
Your garden whispers /
your name, unfolds your beauty /
in each bright petal.
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May 9, 2025 · 9:09 pm
Sweet iris
Sweet iris, three blooms: /
birth wrapped, life unfurled, death gnarled. /
Three phases, one root.
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May 8, 2025 · 11:58 pm
Nimbus
Ice crystal contrail; /
jet cruises several miles up: /
all souls nimbused.
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May 7, 2025 · 10:37 pm
Tall tale
The gravedigger says, /
As his needling wife’s unearthed, /
“It’s all a big yarn.”
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May 6, 2025 · 10:22 pm
May
Face to the May sun; /
morning with petals outstretch. /
May you see it, too.
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May 5, 2025 · 10:50 pm
Skirt
Iris rise from dark soil, /
dress in a skirt of May rain, /
bloom and fall from light.
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May 5, 2025 · 12:59 am
Desires
Devil-in-a-bush /
dances like love-in-a-mist /
with warm-spring desires.
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May 3, 2025 · 11:57 pm
Recipe
Recipe and hands, /
ingredients and oven, /
turn time into bread.
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#recipe #hands #ingredients #oven #bread #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #may #saturday #050325 #2025
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May 2, 2025 · 11:50 pm
On the road
On the road to spring, /
the iris and the rose met /
after a May rain.
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