Life In 19x19

Given the time of year (in our hemisphere), and the time of night here, I found this haiku I just came across rather apposite:

春いまだ碁石にのこる寒さ哉

Spring has come, and yet...
Oh, the cold that lingers still
In the slate and shell

I don't think it's by anybody famous. The author used the name　翠彰. If you want go haiku by a (very) famous poet, Masaoka Shiki wrote a lot, but he was also a go nut anyway. It is reckoned he was about 3 or 4-dan in strength, which was truly something in Meiji times. Here is one example, though it relates to autumn:

碁の音の林にひゞく夜寒かな

Oh, how cold the night
As the sounds of go echo
Into the forest

Thank you, that’s beautiful!

Thank you for sharing.

Daylight savings time
Bringing light and warmth outside:
I'm on KGS

John Fairbairn wrote: Oh, how cold the night
As the sounds of go echo
Into the forest

Ah, the Meiji era, back when KGS had stone sounds...