I was looking forward to your review. I agree with your points. I don’t like the title either and there is some confusion as to whether “hair” is describing the grass or the child. What if I changed the last line to “She moves with lost seeds.” Is that a better picture. Unfortunately if I do this I loose the image that everything is kind of moving together. Thanks for taking the time to give a good review. It was worth all 76 credits.
Haiku/Senryu / Autumn's Sister
Sweeping flaxen hair,
Ghostly trails in tall grasses
Moving with lost seeds.
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Didn’t understnad last line.
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This is almost there. The last two lines are very good and stick together in a coherent picture; but the first one, even with the title, seems a bit disjointed from the other two; if I hadn’t had the benefit of your note, I would be even more lost.
Ironically, my solution to fix this is to change line 2; suggestion for line 2 that would connect line one to the other two:
“Floats in tall grass ghostly trails”
I guess what I’m getting at is trying to envision her walking through the grass but all we see is her hair, not her; is this making any sense?
Anyway, I like this lots, it’s just in tweak-need.
Beautiful, original, dynamic and fascinating. Haiku doesn’t normally hold too much interest for me, but I think that your word choices work to attract interest for the reader. My favorite part is the “lost seeds;” it leaves an air of potential metaphor and mystery. I think this piece would be nice as part of a larger series of haikus. I like your description of what the poem is about, but I don’t think it’s necessary—the poem holds its own. Good job.
I like the word flaxen.
Its just cool.
I get the image of a swaying wheat field when i read this one.
I’ve never been a haikuer, but “you done good”
d:- )
Well done and I could see exactly what you were trying to tell me.
I think this is good the way it is.
I would like to see this with a different line three.
It’s good; it could be better.
Great! I love the use of the word ghostly. Im not sure what moving with lost seeds means though, but it still sounds really cool. good luck
nice piece, very imaginative
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