November 9, 2024 · 5:36 pm

Limits
Life at the limits /
has turned loose its freak show. /
Flowers squirt poison.
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#life #limits #freak #show #flowers #poison #knoxville #davidebooker #bookeddy #november #saturday #110924 #2024
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November 8, 2024 · 10:55 pm

Waiting
Waiting your guidance, /
possessions are opinions /
lacking direction.
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#waiting #guidance #opinions #possessions #direction #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #davidebooker #knoxville #110822 #2022 #haiga
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November 8, 2024 · 9:28 pm

Steps
Success, my dad said, /
was often one foot ahead /
of the other one.
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#steps #foot #success #dad #ahead #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #knoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #110824 #2024
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November 7, 2024 · 11:41 pm

Scattered
Scattered on the street, /
reflected in the car door, /
curled oak leaves and light.
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#scattered #street #reflected #door #leaves #light #oak #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #november #thursday #110824 #2024
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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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Tagged as 110619, body, Brushy Mountain, David E. Booker, gone, haiga, haiku, hope, November, photo, place, poem, poetry, prison, wall
November 5, 2024 · 11:54 pm

See
See the fall evening /
reflected in the mirror, /
fading with the sun.
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#see #fall #evening #mirror #fading #sun #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #110524 #2024
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Tagged as 110524, David E. Booker, evening, fall, haiga, haiku, mirror, November, Old North Knoxville, photo, poem, poetry, reflected, see, Wednesday
November 3, 2024 · 11:00 pm

Seeds
Autumn seeds descend. /
Winter’s cold underworld. /
Spring’s ghost whispers hope.
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#autumn #spring #winter #seeds #underworld #ghost #whispers #hope #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #110221 #haiga #2021
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November 3, 2024 · 1:18 pm

Death
Death is an entry, /
a metaphor unfolding, /
a flower empty.
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#death #entry #metaphor #flower #empty #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #talltalestogo #november #sunday #110324 #2024
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Tagged as 110324, David E. Booker, death, empty, entry, flower, haiku, metaphor, November, Old North Knoxville, photo, poem, poetry, Sunday, unfolding
November 3, 2024 · 1:34 am

Silence
Fall leaves on a bench,
a pile of my yesterdays
all in dead silence.
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#silence #fall #leaves #silence #dead #yesterday #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #november #saturday #110224 #2024
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December 2, 2023 · 12:00 am

Cling
Fall rain clings to stems /
and leaves clinging to summer’s /
warm, fading promise.
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#cling #promise #leaves #stems #fall #summer #photo #haiga #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #friday #120123 #2023
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