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“Purple cornflower”

Purple cornflower

Bachelor’s Button /

growing by the road, waving /

at passing ladies.

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#cornflower #bachelor’s_button #ladies #road #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #may #tuesday #051022 #2022

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“Blueberry”

Blueberry

Maybe tomorrow /

I will catch the sun and hold, /

turning green to blue.

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#blueberry #green #blue #sun #hold #catch #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #tuesday #050923 #2023

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“Love-in-the-mist”

Love-in-the-mist

Slender to the eye, /

iridescent in the light, /

lives love-in-the-mist.

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#slender #irridescent #eye #light #love-in-the-mist #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #monday #050922 #2022

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“Heart”

Heart

I know not this path, /

the one of the heart, only /

the flowers you left.

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#heart #path #flowers #know #I #you #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #monday #050823 #2023

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“Mother”

Mother

Your garden whispers /

your name, unfolds your beauty /

in each bright petal.

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#garden #whispers #mother #beauty #name #petal #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #sunday #050822 #2022

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“Yearning”

Yearning

Earth’s Moon hanging high /

bright light in the cold night sky /

we, in yearning, try.

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#moon #haiku #poem #poetry #yearning #friday #may #2020 #davidebooker #nightphotography #050820

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“Tall tale”

Tall tale

The gravedigger says, /

As his needling wife’s unearthed, /

“It’s all a big yarn.”

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#poem #haiku #davidebooker #poet #writer #writing #may #monday #2019 #pun #wife #gravedigger #humor #unearthed #skeleton #needles #050619

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“Spiderwort”

Spiderwort

Small, purple petals, /

the Ohio Spiderwort /

weaves through your garden.

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#flower #garden #spiderwort #ohio #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #saturday #050722 #2022

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“Drupelets”

Drupelets

Green drupelets encase /

blackberry seeds and ripen. /

Summer’s dark delights.

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#summer #blackberry #drupelets #seeds #delights #ripen #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #saturday #050623 #2023

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“Hope for the creek”

Hope for the creek

The Hail Mary here /

Is neither pass nor prayer /

But hope for the creek.

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#050518 #Beth #Hail-Mary #creek #hope #May #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker

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