Please critique my Haikus

Question

This year sculpts me well,

I make impressions on it

Makes me who I am

A New Year arrives

Quicker than the last one went

Not a day to reclaim.

Answer 1

For me, a really good Haiku offers a look at something and then, boom! a very new way of looking at the same thing. These two do that, and with a very quiet "boom!" I like that. I also prefer that a Haiku make an observation of what is outside, rather than inside, the mind of the poet. It is the observation in and of itself that brings us inside the poet's mind. For this reason, I prefer the first one. But with both of these, there's more to them than is revealed at first glance.

Answer 2

um.....it needs more work

esp on the 2nd paragraph

Answer 3

Try to get your mind floating slightly and try some more.