cold brick notice
brings a smile to rosy cheeks
boots crunch snow to lake
summer spirits
empty winter pavilion
smell of wood smoke
bare trees stand, still
winter benches brushed with snow
along frozen lake
straight steps soon turn
away from the cloudy sun
cold hands, warm heater
Out and about on errands today, I decided to visit a park at a local lake that we went to a lot when I was growing up. The road out to the picnic pavilion was not plowed but well-frozen so I was able to drive out there (with fingers crossed.) It looks so different in winter, but the summer memories came flooding back. Many smiles at the memories of trying to avoid the then-plentiful seaweed while wading and being chased with it by my brothers and cousins. We had a lot picnics on the 2nd floor of the open-air pavilion with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, and sometimes friends.
Linda is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night.
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Lovely haikus
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Thank you 🙂
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A great set of Haikus, Lisa. Love the sign. Maybe that is there for the polar-bear club that takes its winter dip! :>)
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🙂 Thanks Dwight. We do have an annual polar plunge for charity but it’s on a different lake.
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That would be a cold chill for sure!
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I really like the picture of the tracks and the sun… “straight steps soon turn “
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Thank you, Max. I also turned on an impulse on the road out to that lake today.
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That looks like a good place for memories. (K)
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You’ve captured your mood so well in your poems.
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Sadje, thank you.
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You’re welcome
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ah, a frozen lake, that makes my heart sing, i want to go fishing so bad right now i can taste it! love your haiku, very well done
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Did you grow up in a northern place? There’s something about not letting cold stop you from having fun that I like about it. Hoping you get your chance to go fishing soon. Thank you, Phillip.
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no, i was born raised in colorado, and spend a lot of time up in the hills. i just had foot surgery and will miss all of my winter season, i’m stuck in one spot for the moment, but should be run and running by spring
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Well, I’m certainly glad no lifeguard was on duty there in the dead of winter – he or she probably would have needed to be rescued themselves! 🙂
Your photos are nice. I can literally see how cold it must have been. I also like the music in the clip – pretty relaxing!
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LOL on the lifeguard needing rescue 🙂 Thank you, Christian. Yes on the cole. The wind was pretty nippy and the ice was solid.
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Beautiful haiku, Lisa, and I enjoyed the backstory at the end.
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Lynn, thank you ❤
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Nice. I did capture snow on the ground and shying sun today
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Thank you 🙂
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Such wonderful haikus but your pics made me shiver, Li! I doubt if I would last even a day in so much snow!🥶
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Thank you, Punam. Layers of clothes is the key.
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Indeed, it is. You are so welcome.
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Lovely set of haiku, and presented so nicely. I could smell the woodsmoke……that is the power of haiku. Apologies for the delay in book. Trying hard to fix
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Ain, thank you, glad they transported you. No worries on the book, I’ve always got a stack waiting.
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Wonderful haiku, Lisa. I could smell that wood smoke too. And although there’s never snow here, this reminded me of a spring that my family would go to during the summer months, have cookouts and gather with grandparents and lots of cousins. Sweet memories for you and me both!
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Bodhi, happy to bring those memories back to you also 🙂
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Lovely adventure to visit a summer place in winter. The photo with sign tells a story all its own.
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Thanks, Beverly. That’s perceptive of you to pick up on that sign. This place, even though a chunk of money has been sunk into sprucing it up, is on “the poor side of the tracks.” They want it to look good for the media but the reality is it’s no big deal if a few drown every year 😦
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Love this especially; “bare trees stand, still/winter benches brushed with snow/along frozen lake.”💝💝
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Sanaa thanks so much ❤
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A lovely set of haikus, Lisa.
And such pretty music that fits oh so well with your beautiful images and words.
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Dale, thank you, glad you enjoyed them.
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Thank you for taking me along Lisa! This was fun, and the contrast if the sign in the winter moment, put a smile on my face.
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You’re welcome, Rob, and I’m glad it made you smile also 🙂
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I’m with you on those visits to lake parks in the winter. (Love the lifeguard sign!) Good haiku, the empty pavilion and the smell of wood smoke.
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Yvonne, many thanks and so glad you connected with the haiku.
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You did the park great justice, Lisa. The combination of photos and poems are masterful.
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Thank you very much, Bill ❤
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Oh My Gosh Dear
MSJADELI
Long Lost
Poetry FRiEnD
Hehe At First i Thought
You Found The Sugar White
Sands of Northwest Florida
Where i Dance In Deep
Sands Floating
In All SeAsons
Patterns
of Waves
That Make
Shores Within
And in Spiraling
Human Tracks of
Milky Ways in Sugar White
Deep Sands Indeed Anyway
Just Another Invitation to Play
Every Day
As Play
Naturally
Slays Fear
With SMiLes..:)
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“Play naturally slays fear” is a GRRRREAT credo to follow. Warm sun and beach sand sound mighty inviting right now ❤
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SMiles Hehe
Even Down
Here Cold
Sugar
White
Sands
With Wind
Chills close
To Freezing
Yet Give me
A Clear Blue
Sky And
Soul
Warms
Rays Within🌞☺️❤️
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🙂 ❤
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☺️🏝
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What vivid images you have captured in your haikus Lisa!
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🙂 Glad you like.
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The lake in winter is one of my favorite places–I really miss living close enough to walk. Thank you for taking me there!
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Alexandra, thank you. It has its stark beauty for sure. Glad you enjoyed the pics and poems.
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Bare trees, sentinel like, evokes a sense of grief for me, but also a sense of hope for renewal.
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I like how you see this with two minds, Paul.
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Ah, my strength and weakness, thank you Lisa.
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You’re welcome.
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Splendid write
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Thank you.
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It’s a pleasure
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