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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 18: 29 Apr. 2023
Micro-Poems: 8 words;
10 words;
7 words
By Amita Paul

Three Senryu

 

 

Mexican Poppy
how prickly I am
with strangers

 

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his question
a brick shattering the pane
of her composure

 

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silver foliage
of sweet lavender
aging gracefully


Amita Paul
Issue 18 (29 April 2023)

is by profession a retired bureaucrat but at heart a poet and a teacher. Based in Patna (the educational center of the Bihar state of eastern India), she writes poetry in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi.

 
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