Winter is fading.
Pink flowers are blossoming.
Happiness has come.
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It is very sweet, it is cool how you can bring out a lot of emotion with little words. Amazing work, dont stop.
Do you haiku?!



Nah, just kidding, obviously you have!
Okay, so the thing is that you only have a limited amount of syllables in a haiku to pack the most amount of punch, right? So you have to be super selective of what you use as words in your haiku. With that said, I think you could have packed in a lot more punch in your poem about spring. Let's look at your poem, shall we?
Winter is fading. <-- This is kind of a no-duh sort of line. But think... instead of saying "Winter is fading" you can shorten it and say, "Winter fades." Or "snow melts." Or something like that. So you don't explicitly have to talk about the winter fading and use a lot of syllables for it. So, for instance, you can say, "Snow melts into streams" or something like that and you give the same sort of meaning with more interesting imagery. So, don't be afraid to do this!
Pink flowers are blossoming. <-- Again, you use the passive voice, which eats away two of your syllables. You can say instead (for instance!) "pink blossoms blanket our pool." Which is what just happened to my place, lol. Our swimming pool took forever to clean! But it was all good. So, instead of saying something matter-of-fact, you can transform it into something really creative and neat.
Happiness has come. <-- Here is the part I don't quite like... happiness is such a weird word to use. Why is happiness associated with spring and not in winter? What if people disagree with you... like they have bad allergies with the blossoms and everything? Little things like that. Anyway, I would rather you say something a little more punchy.
Best of luck!
I'm not really a huge haiku person because they're so short (I mean who can really express something that quickly?) but this was pretty nice. My only real problem is that they're all chopped-up sentences, so I'd switch one or two periods out for commas.
Keep writing,
StoryWeaver
But really, all you have to do to fix the stops is replace the periods with commas. Good poem!
Hi JackRussell,
This is really beautiful. You handle the form perfectly and use language and imagery with precision. I love how you specify the color of the flowers.
My only small quibble is your use of full-stops. In a different form of poem they would be perfectly used, but since this is a haiku I don't think that you really need them.
Hope this helps,
Jas