June 6, 2025 · 8:01 pm

Icarus
Icarus, soaring /
between the sunflower and /
the sun, hoping.
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#icarus #sunflower #sun #forgetting #soaring #hope #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #june #sunday #060522 #2022 #haiga
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December 31, 2024 · 9:54 pm

The husk
In ten billion years /
the sun will be a cold husk /
The sunflower’s cold now.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #sun #sunflower #husk #photooftheday #snow #cold #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #knoxville #tennessee #december #thursday #2020 #haiga #123120
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August 16, 2024 · 11:54 pm

Evening
Evening arises. /
Sunflowers glow under the moon. /
Crickets chirp their dreams.
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#evening #sunflowers #moon #crickets #dreams #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #friday #081624 #2024
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August 12, 2024 · 11:48 pm

Busy
Busy as a bee, /
you say you are as I stand, /
like a sunflower.
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#busy #sunflower #bee #stand #you #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #monday #081224 #2024
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August 11, 2024 · 11:56 pm

Transcends
Its blossom fleeting, /
the sunflower lives briefly. /
Its beauty transcends.
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#transcends #beauty #fleeting #sunflower #lives #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #august #sunday #081124 #2024
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July 13, 2024 · 11:59 pm

Upended
Even upended /
the sunflower’s tall beauty /
continues to bloom.
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#upended #sunflower #beauty #bloom #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #july #saturday #071324 #2024
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June 16, 2024 · 11:43 pm

Community
Sunflower petals, /
a community as one /
turned toward the sun.
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#community #sunflower #petals #one #sun #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #june #sunday #061624 #2024
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May 25, 2024 · 12:31 am

Raindrop
Toward the rising star /
the sunflower aims its bloom /
while one raindrop dangles.
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#raindrop #sunflower #star #bloom #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #may #saturday #052524 #2024
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October 15, 2023 · 3:15 pm

Color
Etched against autumn, /
Butterfly and sunflower /
Hold to summer’s bloom.
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#haiku #poem #poetry #butterfly #sunflower #bloom #summer #autumn #oldnorthknoxville #photo #davidebooker #october #friday #2021 #101521
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October 11, 2023 · 10:49 pm

Bright
Bright in October, /
Mexican sunflowers bloom /
in autumn’s coolness.
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#mexican #sunflower #bright #autumn #bloom #coolness #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #wednesday #101123 #2023
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