Comments on: QUIET HESITATION BEFORE PICKING FRUIT • by Joel Wool http://www.everydaypoets.com/quiet-hesitation-before-picking-fruit-by-joel-wool/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:42:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff Balter http://www.everydaypoets.com/quiet-hesitation-before-picking-fruit-by-joel-wool/comment-page-1/#comment-3620 Jeff Balter Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:19:00 +0000 http://www.everydaypoets.com/quiet-hesitation-before-picking-fruit-by-joel-wool/#comment-3620 "Theft of nectar." is a beautiful sound. “Theft of nectar.” is a beautiful sound.

]]> By: Oonah V Joslin http://www.everydaypoets.com/quiet-hesitation-before-picking-fruit-by-joel-wool/comment-page-1/#comment-3562 Oonah V Joslin Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:54:36 +0000 http://www.everydaypoets.com/quiet-hesitation-before-picking-fruit-by-joel-wool/#comment-3562 What I loved about this and still do was the contrast between sweet and the bitterness of violence. The first line introduces that really well. We don't tend to think of the harvest as murder yet images such as the Grim Reaper are familiar to us and that roots (forgive the pun) this poem in deeper tradition. I loved the alliterative qualities and how those reflected the theme soft 's's and hard 't's and the plosive sounds of 'branch burdens' as if bursting with fruit. The last line reprises the thought of the first - but more succinctly. I made blackberry jam last week...carnage! Loved this poem. Thank you Joel. What I loved about this and still do was the contrast between sweet and the bitterness of violence. The first line introduces that really well. We don’t tend to think of the harvest as murder yet images such as the Grim Reaper are familiar to us and that roots (forgive the pun) this poem in deeper tradition.

I loved the alliterative qualities and how those reflected the theme soft ’s’s and hard ‘t’s and the plosive sounds of ‘branch burdens’ as if bursting with fruit.

The last line reprises the thought of the first – but more succinctly.

I made blackberry jam last week…carnage!

Loved this poem. Thank you Joel.

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