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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a great haiku!
congratulations!
Wow! Just the best haiku! Thank you.
such a perfect ku, I didn’t read it for several months… really beautiful.
Thanks for the reminder of Langston Hughes, superb haiku poet.
wishing star
just visible enough
for one wish
stars
pasted on august sky
one just bright enough to wish upon
THREE MORE THANKS
Earlier I neglected to say –
Thanks for the info on giant dandelions (I love dandelions & have written about them myself).
Thanks mainly & especially for your very lovely haiku.
Thanks immensely also for the inspiration to write the haiku I posted before.
Great tinywords day!
dandelion puffs –
wishing for fewer
doesn’t work
You have made a Dandelion smell like a rose. Great ku.
dog day morning
in need of rain–
vendor’s sunflower