January 5, 2023 · 9:27 pm

Room
This Earth /
with all its old tragedies /
still has room for me.
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#earth #room #tragedies #old #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #january #thursday #010523 #2023
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December 8, 2022 · 11:20 pm

Rain
His heart falling, /
old man at the corner /
of the sky, crying.
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#man #old #heart #corner #sky #rain #crying #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #december #thursday #120822 #2022
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October 16, 2022 · 12:25 am

Salutation
I stand up to you, /
Young cat said to Old cane. /
Old cane kept its lean.
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#cane #cat #salutation #stand #young #old #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #knoxvilletn #davidebooker #october #sunday #101622 #2022
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August 11, 2022 · 11:55 pm

Skin
Every fourteen days /
you shed into a new skin. /
You: you are, you were.
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#you #skin #shed #days #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #thursday #081122 #2022
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July 31, 2022 · 11:23 pm

Death
Death is an old skin, /
an exoskeleton shed /
only in passing.
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#death #old #skin #exoskeleton #passing #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #july #sunday #073122 #2022
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February 25, 2022 · 10:43 pm

Entwined
Old and new embrace. /
Winter entwines with Spring: /
leaves both brown and green.
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#old #new #winter #spring #leaves #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #february #friday #022522 #2022
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November 6, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Wrinkles
Blue haired old lady /
Streaks of gray and white abound /
Wrinkles fold Earth’s face.
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#wrinkles #bluehair #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #writer #earth #sky #poet #gray #white #110618 #thebookeddy #photo #davidebooker #november
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June 24, 2021 · 10:00 am

Light
Within us is light: /
new as a summer morning, /
old as lost moments.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #light #new #old #time #moments #summer #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #thursday #2021
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June 13, 2021 · 4:47 pm

Deadheads
I deadhead lilies, /
snapping old petals so new /
flowers don’t suffer.
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#poem #poetry #haiku #lilies #old #new #deadhead #suffer #flowers #photooftheday #poemoftheday #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #sunday #2021
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April 22, 2021 · 1:01 am

When
When I’m old, I’ll don /
a lavender sheet and stand /
in my cold decline.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #photo #lavender #sheet #old #decline #stand #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #photooftheday #poemoftheday #april #thursday #2021
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