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“Bread line”

Bread line

Line up, single file. /

You have to cool off a while. /

A pan handler’s dream.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #bread #bananabread #pan #homemade #july #wednesday #2020 #baking #stormhaven #oldnorthknoxville #photooftheday #davidebooker #knoxville #tennessee #070120

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Photo Finish Friday: “Year one”

Year one

Homemade birthday cake. /

Nineteen years, including this /

first year on her own.

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#homemade #cake #birthday #nineteen #year #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #friday #070122 #2022

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Haiku to you Thursday: “Many songs”

Many songs

Nature is rhythm: /

many songs chirping, buzzing, /

murmuring onward.

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#murmur #buzz #chirp #nature #rhythm #songs #photo #poem #haiku #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #thursday #063022 #2022

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“Arc”

Arc

Day lily dying /

Arcing old comet passing /

New flowering life.

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#063018 #oldnorthknoxville #daylily #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #june #comet #arc

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“Some thrones”

Some thrones

Sometimes the throne is /

a mulch pile, a dead threshold /

waiting to be thrown.

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#threshold #throne #thrown #mulch #sometimes #dead #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #cat #june #wednesday #062722 #2022

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“Reflection”

Reflection

Do we fret and strut /

Our hour upon the stage then /

Leave unreflected?

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#poem #haiku #davidebooker #poet #poetry #write #writer #writing #reflection #unreflected #stage #strut #fret #stage #062619 #2019

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“Damnation”

Damnation

The Devil’s Tongue blooms /

Under summer’s hot, first days /

Sun and damnation.

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#damnation #summer #devil #tongue #sun #bloom #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #062618 #2018

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“Home”

Home

The dead and living /

Occupy the same domain. /

Sharing rain and sun.

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#haiku #poem #poetry #photooftheday #living #dead #sun #rain #share #garden #domain #lily #flower #thursday #june #2020 #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #tennessee #knoxville #062520

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Photo finish Friday: “Threshold”

Threshold

Rival bumblebees /

joust across the dark flower: /

pollen and honor.

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#threshold #pollen #honor #bummblebee #flower #joust #rivals #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #talltalestogo #oldnorthknoxville #june #friday #062422 # 2022

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Haiku to you Thursday: “Waiting”

Waiting

Lightning Bug waits on /

the sunflower stalk for dark /

and the Mistress Moon.

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#lightningbug, #mistress #moon #sunflower #stalk #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #thursday #062322 #2022

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