ice-locked lake
countless footprints
to nowhere

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  1. Alan Summers Says:

    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. Marta Chocilowska Says:

    Thank you for your comment, Alan! I like your haiku. Spring is always coming :)
    Best wishes,
    marta

  3. Magyar Says:

    __ 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

  4. Marta Chocilowska Says:

    Thank you for your comment, Magyar and for your verses!

  5. martin1223 Says:

    day moon
    the night stays in the lake

    tinywords 5 March 2008

  6. Bruce Says:

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

  7. Marta Chocilowska Says:

    Thank you very much for your comment, Bruce
    Marta

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