Lake Bled Quartet

Leaf 120 – Reflections

 

This quartet of poems recall a winter holiday in Slovenia, and a magical memory of a day trip to Lake Bled – a very picturesque location, which in this season has the Narnia-like feel of a fairy tale. Four haiku postcards penned out of an ice-etched enchantment.

 

 

Slow dip of oars,

echoing across the water

– snow falling over Lake Bled.

 

 

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Words turn white –

hushed whispers crystallised

by Lake Bled’s quiet beauty.

 

 

 

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White sky into

black water –

snow falling, soundless.

 

 

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Crackle of ice-crystals,

sparkling the air of

mist-laden Lake Bled.

 

 

 

 

 

Photographs by Tim Chamberlain (2017)