Comment from June Sargent

Excellent

I like the imagery of black flies flitting about. Very natural in a sylvan forest, but annoying at a picnic. However, hikers would be just as annoying to animal life in a forest. Depends on whose point of view, I guess...

 Comment Written 26-Dec-2021

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reply by the author on 27-Dec-2021

June,

Thanks for your review.

Wise picnickers don?t organize their spread in the sylvan forest during black fly season. (-; The mantra for hikers is to leave the forest the same way they entered the same. This, of course, means that the animals should not be disturbed.

Mark

Comment from Father Flaps

Excellent

Hi Mark,
Merry Christmas!
I enjoyed your 5-7-5 entry for the contest. I like "sylvan forest". It caused me to look up "sylvan". Always good to learn a new word.
In your second line, I like the alliteration... "criss-cross" and "bubbly brooks". If you wanted to, you could stretch the use of "b" sounds in the third line,
(blackflies bite your butt)
I remember those days, fighting off incessant attacks of blackflies and mosquitoes to NOT catching a single fish!
All the Best in 2022! And Good Luck in the contest!
Cheers,
Kimbob

 Comment Written 26-Dec-2021

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reply by the author on 26-Dec-2021

Thanks Kimbob!

Those black flies get you everywhere. At least I can scratch my butt if it itches LOL

You know I like to scratch in alliterations in my poems (-;

Mark

P.S. I am not a fisherman, but my guess is you are not a fly-fisherman otherwise you would know what lure to use to catch something in ?season?. (-;

reply by Father Flaps on 26-Dec-2021

I've never bothered with salmon, only brook-fishing for trout.

Comment from RodG

Excellent

It is easy to visualize these hikers repeatedly criss-crossing this "bubbly brook" as they hike through the forest. The B-alliteration enables us to hear the brook. Too bad those black flies are around. Rod

 Comment Written 26-Dec-2021

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reply by the author on 26-Dec-2021

Rod,

Those black flies are terrors. Hikers try to avoid them like the plague by traipsing around the woods when they are less active, or not in season.

Pleased you liked my imagery.

Mark