Endure

Minute by minute, /
if I can make the hours run, /
my heart might endure.
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#endure #minute #hours #heart #I #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #100412t #100426p #2026 #october #sunday

From 2011

Three Parts

Blueberry picking
starts at Three Rivers Market.
Buy a plant and plant.
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#100311 #blueberry #plant #market #threeriversmarket #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #bethbooker #October #2011 #photo #haiga

Dust

The house and the world, /
the light and the shadow: /
dust troubles them all.
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#dust #house #world #light #shadow #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #stormhaven #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #october #thursday #100126 #2026

Sulfur Cosmos

Sulfur Cosmos, /
invasive border crosser, /
wild along the road.
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#sulfur_cosmos #border #wild #road #haiku #poem #poetry # haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #sunday #092726 #2026

Fall

Stretched out and relaxed, /
cat lies across the railing, /
empty as the fall.
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#empty #fall #cat #railing #relaxed #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #friday #2025 #092625

Possum

Fall night with possum, /
searching for leftover seed, /
discovers me, too.
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#possum #fall #seed #me #night #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #saturday #senryu #092626 #2026

Waiting

Empty park swings hang /
beneath white ripe clouds, waiting /
for chains to rattle.
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#rattle #chains #swings #park #clouds #photo #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #wednesday #092023 #2023 #haiga

Cat

No nude descending, /
only a cat stretching down /
for further pats.
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#cat #nude #descending #pats #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #friday #092526 #2026

Dust

The world turns its face /
to other things and your love /
to history’s dust.
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#dust #world #love #face #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #senryu #september #thursday #092426 #2026

Groundhog

Paused on my back deck, /
poised on summer’s edge, groundhog /
considers me.
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#groundhog #deck #summer #me #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #monday #092126 #2026

Dawn

Dawn slowly eases /
schemes, dreams, and elder things, /
making sleep say goodbye.
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#dawn #schemes #dreams #things #elder #goodbye #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #sleep #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #senryu #september #friday #091826 #2026

I am

I can lose my place. /
Sometimes my place can lose me. /
Either way, I am.
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#I #am #place #lose #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #040323t #091525p #2025 #monday #senryu

Passion

September bloom, /
wild purple passion flower, /
volunteer beauty.
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#passion #bloom #flower #volunteer #beauty #haiku #wild #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #thursday #091726 #2026

Anthem

To the horizon /
into the sky and sea /
is anthem for me.
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#anthem #sky #sea #horizon #me #091326t #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #monday #091426 #2026

Coneflowers

Dying in the sun
coneflowers turn from beauty
toward seeds.
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#coneflowers #sun #beauty #seeds #dying #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #saturday #091226 #2026

Glory

Draped in sunlight, /
the common morning glory /
glows uncommonly.
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#glory #sunlight #morning_glory #glows #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #stormhaven #davidebooker #september #thursday #091026 #2026

Light

Candle light dances /
against the edge of the glass, /
weaving with the breeze.
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#light #candle #glass #breeze #edge #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #september #tuesday #090826 #2026

Breathe

September evening /
breathes in the day’s last embers, /
breathes out its lost dreams.
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#September #evening #breathe #embers #dreams #lost #last #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #Thursday #090723 #2023 #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker

Evening

September evening /
disrobes from the day, /
pulls night from its pegs.
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#evening #september #disrobes #day #night #pegs #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #oldnorthknoxville #zerozero #sunday #090626 #2026