ice-locked lake countless footprints to nowhere
—Marta Chocilowska
Issue 19.1 | 25 April 2019
—MARTA CHOCILOWSKA
Love 'ice-locked lake' and very Scand Noir too!
I've never written about lakes despite writing several haiku about the Lake District (home of the Romantic Poets).
So if ice-locked then…
snowmelt a river begins giving back its sky
Alan Summers Mainichi Shimbun (February 2019) Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay
All those countless footprints, I wonder if the lake is permanently frozen how far back and how many in time?
Thank you for your comment, Alan! I like your haiku. Spring is always coming :) Best wishes, marta
__ Humbly, I add two lines to your fine verse… my tanka sight… your last line. _m
"to nowhere"
as trails course from shore to shore ice sets its sails to the warm
Thank you for your comment, Magyar and for your verses!
day moon the night stays in the lake
tinywords 5 March 2008
To me, very Thoreau, mysterious and on one's journey. And something Zen for me too! Wonderful haiku!
Thank you very much for your comment, Bruce Marta
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April 25th, 2019 at 9:59 am
ice-locked lake
countless footprints
to nowhere
—MARTA CHOCILOWSKA
Love 'ice-locked lake' and very Scand Noir too!
I've never written about lakes despite writing several haiku about the Lake District (home of the Romantic Poets).
So if ice-locked then…
snowmelt
a river begins giving
back its sky
Alan Summers
Mainichi Shimbun (February 2019) Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay
All those countless footprints, I wonder if the lake is permanently frozen how far back and how many in time?
April 25th, 2019 at 10:38 am
Thank you for your comment, Alan! I like your haiku. Spring is always coming :)
Best wishes,
marta
April 25th, 2019 at 12:22 pm
__ Humbly, I add two lines to your fine verse… my tanka sight… your last line. _m
"to nowhere"
as trails course from shore to shore
ice sets its sails to the warm
April 25th, 2019 at 12:38 pm
Thank you for your comment, Magyar and for your verses!
April 26th, 2019 at 5:49 am
day moon
the night stays in the lake
tinywords 5 March 2008
April 26th, 2019 at 6:43 pm
To me, very Thoreau, mysterious and on one's journey. And something Zen for me too! Wonderful haiku!
April 27th, 2019 at 1:13 am
Thank you very much for your comment, Bruce
Marta