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.
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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?
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