Paul Engel

wildflowers in colorful robes bowing to the Wind #haiku

“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

neighbor´s wife crossing street with bag of fish-heads #senryu

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?

I don’t believe graphs, charts, polls, and scientific data anymore. Sadly, I cannot.

pond willow shadows weaving shadows Laryalee Fraser tinyurl.com/3bxa9kux #willow #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem

new drawing is up…

"a firefly flits -- teardrops are bound to fall" Issa Kobayashi (images: Mikiko Noji / Shoen Uemura)

revising her will aged actress wants her swan provided for #senryu

between lily pads a bubbles surfaces... pops #haiku

@RobertAllenPoet even if you don't know spanish - read the spanish outloud to hear the music

@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.

Started the weekend with Neruda:

“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

@ReneauGlow anything in Cien Sonetas de Amor by Neruda

What is your favorite love poem? Modern, classic, prose, stanzas, long, short, I want them all!

oh these sudden wings neither feathered nor clean

she leaves-- her quivering anxiety and tears follow #senryu

@ericcoliu love it!

@LaughingMonki half full, half empty ... my whiskey glass and the moon bit.ly/3If7FEP #whiskey #moon #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem

sipping whiskey and silence -- autumn night #haiku #whiskey

reading outside-- fluttering sparrow snatches a bug #haiku