Laughing Monkey
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Laughing Monkey
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aka Paul Engel -poet, fiction writer, of Ecuadorian descent - his "The Dance of the Emu" eChapbook is available through Bainbridge Island Press https://bainbridgeisland.press/products/the-dance-of-the-emu
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my poetry chapbook
The Dance of The Emu is available #poetry

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sample poem:

Weeping Willow Cove

Let’s row
To Weeping Willow Cove,

Where golden Weeping willows stand,
Like Golden waterfalls,

And where bluegills grow
As big as your hand.
The Dance of the Emu
by Paul Engel In The Dance of the Emu, poet Paul Engel hopes to convey, lest we forget, the rhythm and rhyme of it all. The author invites readers to experience how his images float along a stream of ...
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“As it happens, books by women dominated most-borrowed library lists in 2025. All of the top 10 books on Libby were by women.”

www.npr.org/2025/12/29/n...
Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries' most-borrowed lists in 2025
All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
washing down a bite
of beef stick with cold coffee --
hacking cough somewhere

#senryu
December 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
down down
in the cold mud
cold toad shuts its eyes

#haiku
December 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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seaside village
the crackle of oyster shells
in the driveway
#haikufeels
December 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
tucking themselves in
under butterbur leaves...
croaking frogs

Issa

#haiku

Lanoue, trans.
December 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Collage #1500
Dadá V
December 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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"Olga" picks lemons in Orange Cove, CA. "I earn $48 per 900lb crate and makes 2-3 crates a 6hr day. Lemon picking is dangerous. I must move and go up and down a 12-foot ladder, while avoiding the thorns on the tree. The weather is cold & the ground is often muddy." #WeFeedYou
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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final paycheck
a robust
winter wind
#vssdaily
December 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Farm workers are silently in the background of all of our lives working tirelessly to deliver the food we eat.

Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.

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December 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Merry Christmas Eve !
December 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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'Leaping Deer' 1955
Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000)
Gouache on card
Christmas card illustration
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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drinking whiskey —
he absently crunches
on pork rinds

#senryu
December 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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another round
of make-believe
drinks
with all of my
stuffed
teddy-bears

#sedoka
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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*Jou dê Mòr —
going to clean
moman's grave
and leave
fresh roses there...
'mô ti-bijou'

#sedoka

*Jou dê Mòr - All Soul's Day
* mô ti-gato sho - my little jewel
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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roar of a waterfall: dressing and undressing in a tent #senryu
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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crab grass: hardly anything in my pantry #senryu
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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night off from work, sewing up a hole in his workshirt #senryu
December 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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#haiku
what we’ve cobbled
from our ruins
lets in the wind
December 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
nembutsu
echoing in the tunnel
sound of water

#haiku
#PureLand
#Buddhism
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
walking around
the frozen pond
clock tower chiming

#haiku
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
married
forty years--
winter solstice

#haiku
#WinterSolstice
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
chasing the crow
ten or twelve yards...
mother sparrow

Issa
#haiku

Lanoue, trans.
December 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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#dailyhaikuprompt #sleet #blooming

morning sleet
the last rose blooming
frozen in time
December 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM