ice-locked lake
countless footprints
to nowhere

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Marta Chocilowska

Marta Chocilowska lives in Warsaw, Poland. She is a fan of cats, music, poetry and cycling. In 2013 she joined the Warsaw Haiku School-Kuzu. Her haiku have appeared in The Asahi Shimbun (Asahi Haikuist Network), Faces and Places Haiku Anthology, A Hundred Gourds, Brass Bell, Cattails, Chrysanthemum, Haiku Anthology of the 2nd International Haiku Conference, Cracow, 2015, IRIS International Haiku Magazine, KUZU, Whirligig, Wild Plum and WHA Haiga Contest.

7 thoughts on “”

  1. 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?

  2. __ 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

  3. To me, very Thoreau, mysterious and on one's journey. And something Zen for me too! Wonderful haiku!

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