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Paul Engel

@LaughingMonki

Feeling about average

 Chicago, IL
Joined June 2017
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wildflowers in colorful robes bowing to the Wind #haiku
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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” ― Anne Lamott
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neighbor´s wife crossing street with bag of fish-heads #senryu
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How did I survive my first thirty-five years without the extravagance of crepe myrtle in high summer, glamorizing every suburban street and strip mall, reminding me that gratitude is the one sustainable response to being alive?
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I don’t believe graphs, charts, polls, and scientific data anymore. Sadly, I cannot.
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pond willow shadows weaving shadows Laryalee Fraser tinyurl.com/3bxa9kux #willow #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem
NeverEnding Story Editor and Poet, Chen-ou Liu (@ericcoliu) profile pictureNeverEnding Story Editor and Poet, Chen-ou Liu@ericcoliu21 Oct 2018
the interplay between light and shadow wind in the willow goo.gl/7bTvvA #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem
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new drawing is up…
completeTheHaiga (@TheHaiga) profile picturecompleteTheHaiga@TheHaiga28 Jul 2024
#completethehaiga 64 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka
flower or star

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"a firefly flits -- teardrops are bound to fall" Issa Kobayashi (images: Mikiko Noji / Shoen Uemura)
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revising her will aged actress wants her swan provided for #senryu
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between lily pads a bubbles surfaces... pops #haiku
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Replying to @LaughingMonki
I have his selected poems, and it has two of the sonnets, XII ("Full woman, fleshy apple")and XVII ("I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose"). Both are gorgeous, I want to read more of them.
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“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.” ― Charles Bukowski
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Started the weekend with Neruda:
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oh these sudden wings neither feathered nor clean
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she leaves-- her quivering anxiety and tears follow #senryu
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half full, half empty ... my whiskey glass and the moon bit.ly/3If7FEP #whiskey #moon #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem
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reading outside-- fluttering sparrow snatches a bug #haiku
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Ben Gaa@gobengaa22 Feb 2023
Thrilled to have this #senryu in the new issue of Frogpond 46:1 - ⁦@hsa_haiku⁩
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just to "be alive" on this "fresh morning" in the "broken world." Mary Oliver, "Invitation" tinyurl.com/bddrpxw4 #quote #poetry #poem #alive
winsome gwynne (@wynsome_gwen) profile picturewinsome gwynne@wynsome_gwen26 Jul 2024
Do you allow yourself the experience of just being alive. #m
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"stars' meeting which one speaks first" Chiyo-ni (mages: left: women watching stars by Chou Ota/ Hasui Kawase)
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