I love all three poems, but that second haiku is my favorite! The imagery of Coyote voice flicker in and out the stars is particularly beautiful and well crafted.
The haiku are magical - and they manage to hold their compact form without sounding stilted at all, which is definitely magic because it's so easy for haiku to "stilt."
The sestina is brave and magical, and also (to me) muddled, and no less brave and magical for that!
Thank you very much!! The comment about the haiku being unstilted makes me very happy... I've been working toward that, since I've written my fair share of haiku with "stilt"!
I love all three poems, but that second haiku is my favorite! The imagery of Coyote voice flicker in and out the stars is particularly beautiful and well crafted.
Thanks so much, Jason! The coyotes (for once) were off in the distance, and that sound seemed to blend with the starlight that night...
Love all
Sestina is purely magical
Thank you
Many many thanks, Chen! :)
The haiku are magical - and they manage to hold their compact form without sounding stilted at all, which is definitely magic because it's so easy for haiku to "stilt."
The sestina is brave and magical, and also (to me) muddled, and no less brave and magical for that!
Thank you very much!! The comment about the haiku being unstilted makes me very happy... I've been working toward that, since I've written my fair share of haiku with "stilt"!
Seventeen syllables? That's it??? They "stilt" by nature! It takes a lot of love and work to get them to be lyrical (in English, anyway). Brava!