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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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Autumn  [E]
A haiku chain on autumn
by Joy
Review of Autumn  
Review by Jeff
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Rated: E | (3.5)
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*Penw* Positives

I love haiku as a poetic form, even more so when someone chains them together and includes more than one! I thought you did a great job with this haiku chain, each of them has really memorable, intense visuals which are the hallmark of the haiku form. I particularly liked your selection of adjectives, as they really helped create the vivid imagery of the poems in the simplest possible terms.


*Penw* Suggestions

A couple of the lines felt a little incomplete to me. At the end of the first haiku, the line "soon the harvest moon" doesn't seem to have any connection to the rest of the haiku (which is focused on the imagery of leaves), or the haiku that follows it. For me, haiku are most effective when they follow the traditional structure of capturing a moment in time rather than being purely descriptive, and it was sometimes difficult to find the exact moment or feeling you were trying to capture in the stanzas, almost like you were looking for the poem as a whole to illustrate the point. Which is totally fine, but I think the piece could be even better if, with a form like haiku that thrives on vivid imagery, that imagery and focus was consistent both on a granular level (the individual haiku) as well as a macro level (the chain as a whole).


*Penw* Overall

Overall, I really enjoyed reading this haiku chain about my favorite season of the year. Nice work! *Smile*


Respectfully,

Jeff
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