Best of Mandolin Cafe Haiku
A collection of our favorite mandolin haiku from the message board. If you dare, create your own for the world to read.
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Kentucky's blue son
fire bound in the wooden tone
hear Uncle Pen call
Noble spruce, maple
Eight bright strings tuned in fifths
Wonder at your sound
Ancient tones echo
Across high Kentucky hills
Endless blue journey
by: Eric Foulke
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Too many mandos!
Weapon of MAS destruction
no where to be found.
by: Django Fret
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Sampras on the tube
Sam Bush on the stereo
Advantage: Mando
"Spot" hears me practice
I stop. Put on "Pizza Tapes"
He's a grateful dog
by: Landgrass
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Monroe's aged hands
Caress the sweet work of art
Like father and child
by: mP
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Tall maple laid low
chopped and carved into mando
The tree lives again
by: David
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Indigo twilight
Eight steel moonbeams excited,
Night's silence broken
by: Eugene
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Fireplace poker
Five minutes of white hot rage
Bill's Loar in pieces
Mandolin jigsaw
A big puzzle for Charlie
Souvenir toothpick?
by: Disco
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Spruce, maple, lady
Mother of Pearl delights me
My song awaits you
Hocked the mandolin
Lost mortgage on mobile home
Ticket to Springer
Sits Stoney Lonesome
Big Mon's Loar beneath the glass
Longs to play Roanoke
by: Scott Tichenor
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Spruce top, maple back
Solid wood, satin finish
Strike a chord for me
by: Frank
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mister john hartford:
played fiddle and danced for us;
rest your bones, old friend
by: anonymous
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Nuance shading tone
Mountain breeze sings eight string trance
Long road, no respect
by: Niles Hokkannen
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Grandma's long passed on
When I play her taterback
She holds me once more
by: Debbie
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Ancient tones from wood
Appalachian mysteries
Big Mon's sweet music
by: G_Smolt
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Raindrops on the roof
Beat a gentle counterpoint
Mando softly sings
Ah! The fragrant spruce
Hope nobody sees me sniff
My mando's soundhole......
by: bunnylady
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Tiny hunks of wood,
bits of metal, bone and wire,
Combine to move souls
by: Joe Fishbein
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Tortoise shell plectrum
Sad fate for reptilian
Let's use bovine feet
by: mad dawg
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Changing mando strings
Lost one of the old string ends.
Barefoot stroll -- found it!
by: Joe F
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by: Larry P.
Upstrokes and downstrokes
Adirondack's heartwood sings
Carved with loving skill
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by: Dena
Placed mando on stand
Fired up mower...from next door
The sound of applause.
