Ablaze

haiku

October on fire

Leaves roar out brilliant color

Autumn frosted flames

 

Reviews

[emmah]

this haiku creates visions, for me as a reader - of thousands of flame colored maple leaves strewn on a picturesque street!! "October on fire" - stunning start with the most unique description of october that i have ever read! it'd be impossible to not recall this one when september ends! and then, to the visual, you add a scintillating splash of sounds and hues in the second line - "Leaves roar out brilliant color" - and i find myself being transported inside this picture you're painting! the end is, like the rest of the picture, unique and mesmerizing - "Autumn frosted flames" - the myriad shades of the flame, oranges and reds that hold at their core, the most delicate shade of blue, jump out from behind a frosted veil! stellar poetry, singular in its expression and brilliant in its imagery!

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... ah ... a sizzling haiku ... with raging embers that echo and resound with flourish ... "october on fire" ... this is the first time ever that i have read such a brilliantly poetic image of october ... i shall remember it each time i think of or am in the month of october ... "leaves roar out brilliant colour" ... a visually epic description ... an ode to poetry with all arts meeting at the melting point of words, sound and colours ... breathtakingly beautiful and immersed beyond measure ... "autumn frosted flames" ... the words just marinate the reader's soul in the frost of autumn ... the fire ... the roar ... the flames ... find their way in this mesmerizing and bewitching haiku which is a treat for the soul ... amazing!!! ...

(serah)

[Ebb and Flow]

This is quite possibly my favorite haiku ever. I absolutely love fall and this captures it.

[Salvatore Buttaci]

Congratulations on winning the Haiku Contest!

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Congrats on this great winning Haiku!

[Maria Retz]

Very beautiful autumn haiku.
Autumn is where nature shows it's last power, before winter cloaks it with frost and I think your haiku poem shows this very well

[cest la vie]

Beautiful, just beautiful!!!

[Fran Marie]

A most beautiful autumn haiku~Thanks for sharing in my contest!

[Anthony Beal]

Very nice. The paired usage of the words "fire" and "roar" really bring this haiku alive, both in the mind's eye and the imagination's ear.