Heartless Dorothy left me / rusting among the flowers. / Heartless beauty. . . #heartless #dorothy #rusting #flowers #beauty #haiga #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #monday #2024 #042724

Poised Wide-eyed cat above, poised in a dogwood tree. Icarus waiting. . . #icarus #poised #waiting #cat #dogwood #tree #photo #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #friday #042823 #2023

Poised Wide-eyed cat above, poised in a dogwood tree. Icarus waiting. . . #icarus #poised #waiting #cat #dogwood #tree #photo #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #friday #042823 #2023

Hiding The seed hides in soil / to reveal what it will be / once uncovered. . . #hiding #seed #soil #reveal #uncovered #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #sunday #042824 #2024

Nuts to you It is not a nut. / It is a legume, you say. / I say, It’s a truck. . . #042721 #nut #legume #truck #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #davidebooker #april #2021

Embrace Speak not your joys / but embrace them like Iris / touched by morning rain. . . #embrace #speak #joys #morning #rain #iris #haiku #haiga #poem #poetry #photo #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #saturday #042724 #2024

Pilgrims Nature’s first pilgrims, / flowing along each Iris, raindrops find no homes. . . #pilgrims #nature #raindrops #Iris #homes #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #042723 #2023

Thief Beside the street, / in a flowering Eden / a snake jerked up Iris. . . #thief #snake #iris #eden #street #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #senryu #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #friday #042624 #2024

Cauldron Through the evening sky, / without wings, these cauldrons fly, / roiling, rumbling by. . . #cauldron #sky #fly #wings #roiling #rumbling #photo #poem #poetry #haiku #knoxville #tennessee #davidebooker #april #sunday #042323 #2023

The road The road less traveled / often becomes forgotten / until the next snow. . . #road #traveled #snow #forgotten #becomes #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #monday #042224 #2024 #011724p

Rose I stop and wonder / what religion is the rose, / both fragrance and thorns. . . #rose #wonder #religion #fragrance #thorns #I #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #sunday #042124 #2024

Early Early ripening / tomatoes in the morning / glistening with rain. / . . #early #rain #tomatoes #morning #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #saturday #042024 #2024

Cocoon An Iris cocooned / in its purple spire working / to bloom into now. . . #iris #cocoon #bloom #spire #now #poem #poetry #haiku #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #Friday #041924 #2024

Grace Rain falls on the beard, / bends along the Iris’ curve. / Graceful, your garden. . . #garden #graceful #iris #rain #beard #bend #haiku #poem #poetry #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #041922 #2022

Birthday Thinking of you now. / Remembering your roots now. / Flowers bloom in town. . . #now #flowers #thinking #remembering #you #town #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #birthday #041922 #2022

Again Tower of purple / bathed in rain. Blooming again / to begin again. . . #again #tower #rain #blooming #begin #bathed #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #thursday #041824 #2024

Ripe New, green, and forming, / blueberries grow with the spring, / creating ripe tastes. . . #green #ripe #tastes #new #spring #create #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #041823 #2023

One There is always one / holding on to yesterday. / Sour grapes for sweet dreams. . . #one #grapes #sour #holding #dreams #sweet #yesterday #photo #haiku #poem #poetry #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #april #tuesday #041823 #2023

Arise Arise hidden life. / Beauty begotten by time. / Spring forth in wonder. . . #olddnorthknoxville #photo #davidebooker #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writer #writing #2019 #wednesday #april #beauty #spring #plants #arise #life #041719

Hangers on Beauty attracts them / Hangers on of Spring’s return / Toilers in Eden. . . #photo #davidebooker #olddnorthknoxville #iris #flower #ladybug #bugs #spring #eden #2019 #tuesday #haiku #poem #poet #poetry #writer #writing #041619