Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse, including The Surrender Tree, which received the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her most recent book is Hurricane Dancers, the First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck.
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Nice haiku, Margarita. I guess it can get just a bit too quiet, even for crows. Be well!!
Nice haiku, Margarita. I guess it can get just a bit too quiet, even for crows. Be well!!
Yvonne in Modesto
can hear
cat slinking
parasailing Acapulco Bay
floating in the wind
….utter silence
Winter sky at night-
The Moon playing peek-a-boo
Behind moving clouds.
snow moon–
soft music
from parked car
the silence
after the loud bang
of the door
teacher’s payday–
silence after the
last bell rings!
just enough silence
hearing …
each raindrop
children playing
with telltale silence–
jam jar
This has a world of elegant dark atmosphere in a very few words. Excellent & chilling!
overpowering
cold midnight silence —
the cricket, oblivious