Name: minnabird (Signed) · Date: 07/04/15 23:36 · For: Autumn At The Castle

I love this series of poems. You paint such clear and beautiful images in them - with, as another reviewer noted, perfectly credible details. Autumn is my very favorite season, though, and I could practically feel the mix of cool air/sunshine. Lines 3-6 especially conjured a familiar image. Also, the alliteration worked quite well, especially in the lines just mentioned the the crunch and scatter of the leaves, to lend sound. Finally, I liked, at the end, the presentiment of winter. "Color vanishes into the void" was a perfect note/image to end on.

Author's Response: Thank you, Minna, for coming back to my occasional series of seasonal poems. They are a lot of fun to write, ignoring, for the moment, all the magic and intrigue, and just focusing on the sensuous images of the natural world. Your approval is greatly appreciated.

Name: Arnel (Signed) · Date: 01/10/15 1:53 · For: Autumn At The Castle

Very nice. This could really be an autumn day anywhere, really, but because you speak of walls and southern sun, the reader must surmise that the place is somewhere quite far north. You've done a nice job capturing this moment in time.

Author's Response: Yes, the connection to Hogwarts does not stand out, but the castle is mentioned in the title, and the walls and lawn in the body of the poem. And, as you say, the low angle of the southern sun suggests that the place is fairly far north. So I hoped that those allusions were sufficient to justify putting the poem on a Harry Potter website. I could see the scene vividly in my mind, the blue sky, the blazing leaves both overhead and underfoot, and could feel how glorious it is to be outdoors on such a day, even though we know that winter is just around the corner. Thank you very much for reading and reviewing.

Vicki