General Poetry posted March 3, 2013 Chapters:  ...18 19 -20- 21... 


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Lake Superior Tale

A chapter in the book Animated Stills

Maiden in the Ice

by Treischel

Maiden in the Ice


Legend tells the story,
The Maiden in the ice.
She met a frozen fate.
Took a risk, paid the price.

Superior's winters
Can freeze up Thunder Bay.
Save a lot of travel
By crossing it, some say.

Much to her sad regret
Maiden took bad advice,
Started walking one day
Across the frozen ice.

Fell right through a thin spot
And came out soaking wet.
Then climbed upon a ledge.
A place where fate was met.

Superior's howling winds
Stiffened up sodden clothes.
Image now forever
Remains right where she froze.






A Story I made up, based on the Image

Syllable count 6, Alternale line rhyming, abcb.

I was up at Duluth, Minnesota showing a couple of my photographs at an art exhibit. While there, I drove up Lake Superior's North Shore a few miles to shoot some ice pictures. This in one of many I took. The image looked to me like someone frozen on a ledge. I just had to write a poem about it. So, here it is. This will become one of my stories in my Amimated Stills Poetry Book.

Animated stills are poems where inanimate objects take on human, animal, or spirit forms, traits, or articles. They are derived from Photographs I have taken, that have moved me to write a poem associated with it.

This picture was taken March 2, 2013 near the Clearwater Grille at Cape Superior.
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