Ice Skating - December 18, 2014

Design You Trust

walking briskly
a lady skated on ice
flapping arms
a tight rope artist
keeps her balance

young ice skater

legs move by themselves
tinkling laughter

© G.s.k. ‘14

I never learnt to ice skate strangely enough ... though I did roller skate for many years.  One thing I did rather often though was skate like the lady in the tanka ... sometimes managing not to fall.  Here's the inspirational haiku by Jane Reichhold for the prompt I'm writing for this morning on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai