
This moment passes /
as does the next. Each a leaf /
supple, then brittle.
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This moment passes /
as does the next. Each a leaf /
supple, then brittle.
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#supple #brittle #leaf #moment #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #102922 #2022

Old Cowards
Leaves are old cowards, /
falling from the empty love /
of winter’s embrace.
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#old #cowards #leaves #empty #love #winter #embrace #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #october #saturday #102222 #2022

Leave
Fall red, the maple leaves /
surrender their Summer green. /
Too soon they will leave.
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#leave #maple #leaves #fall #red #summer #green #photo #haiku #pun #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #saturday #100822 #2022
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide
When time is turned up- /
side down, 24 turns to /
42, the answer.
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#time #upsidedown #24 #42 #hitchhiker #photo #poem #poetry #senryu #haiku #knoxvilletennessee #davidebooker #october #saturday #100122 #2022
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Mother
Autumn is mother, /
preparing you for winter. /
She rests with the trees.
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Half
Reach for the moon, /
shedding its life of lightness. /
Half here and half gone.
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Signs
Poets Corner Way. /
Signs huddled edge to edge. /
No Outlet irony.
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#edge #signs #no-outlet #irony #poets #corner #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #davidebooker #knoxville #august #saturday #081322 #2022
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Leaf
Long shadows, dead veins, /
leaf stuck in blueberry bush. /
Reading the future.
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Flame
Pursuing pollen, /
Icarus could have been a bee, /
cindered by desire.
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#icarus #bee #desire #cindered #flame #pollen #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #talltalestogo #july #saturday #073022 #2022