Mando-inspired Haiku

[mandozilla]

Met a Kettler guy
Never seen two at a time
Only at Huck Finn's

[mandozilla]

Many compliments
At the Huck Finn Jubilee
My Kettler not me

[TinaBee1]

warm Virginia night
bluegrass music on the porch
pickin' and grinnin'

[Dena Haselwander]

Nursing home visit,
Father's Day; sad, distant eyes--
Mandolin brought smiles...





Dena

[Dena Haselwander]

New glasses today--
Well mercy me there are dots
Along my fretboard!




Dena

[B. T. Walker]

Horrible blue screen
A frustrating hard drive crash
Technology bites.

E-mail doesn't work;
Copy data to new drive...
I missed the cafe.

[mandozilla]

BBQ and Jam
My Kettler and I will play
A glorius day

[mandozilla]

The July 4 jam
Was such a great time for all
Butt sore from wood bench
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[Dena Haselwander]

Spent too much money,
A miss, not a hit--these strings
Sound like--well, you know...



Dena

[mandopete]

Do you tell someone
That they don't know how to play?
Not if it's a friend!

[billkilpatrick]

lustrous shiny back
glassy-smooth grip up the neck
soundboard chewed to bits

[Jim MacDaniel]

"What does it all mean?"
Be one with your mandolin
And then you will know

[Perry]

Greyfox will be soon
Which mandolin shall I bring
Mix will stay in tune

[Michael Pilgrim]

A trio of Manns:
Two EM4's, a Two-Point.
MAS in remission...

...temporarily!

[fatt-dad]

Tendonitis wrist.
Old-time jam at local bar.
Playing way too fast!

[Jim MacDaniel]

Vacation this week
Watching three year old alone
Mando sing-along http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[billkilpatrick]

twelve haiku today
poetic conflagration
good write hand technique

(12:14 am here in italy ... "today" is now "tomorrow" ... buona notte!)

[mandopete]

Wearin' cover-alls
That's Mike Compton's look for you,
Got it from Hartford.

[JEStanek]

Clothes worn on the stage
nudie Suit or overalls
Either could be schtick.

Play well in comfort
Engage the crowd with good tunes
Clothes don't make the man.

[man dough nollij]

Alas no Rocky Grass
Fixing radios down south
Festival next year

The sun comes up soon
Three weeks to the first sunlight
Dark for long enough

My new red octave
Quietly waits in Bozeman
Can’t wait to meet her

My first winter here
Well by far the strangest place
Pick mando solo

[Jim MacDaniel]

Six hours into
Weeklong adventure with son
He's wearing me out

[Dena Haselwander]

Picking at midnight
Must cease--dreaded schoolbell tolls
Friday next...too soon!


Dena

[B. T. Walker]

Oklahoma schools
Start way too early for me...
I feel Dena's pain.

School starts up again
Just as I start to enjoy
A lazy summer.

What could save us from
Mandolin interruptus?
Big lottery wins.
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[mandopete]

After Labor Day
The bluegrass festivals end
And school starts up - ugh!

[billkilpatrick]

william blake mandolin haiku:

awake in the night
tiger maple burning bright
scroll-ful symmetry

[Dena Haselwander]

Caldwell, Kansas fair--
Fiddle vies with lowing cows...
Friends, food, fun--bluegrass.


Dena

[billkilpatrick]

elizabeth barrett browning mandolin haiku:

how do i love thee?
with I - IV - V chord patterns
and maybe a chop

[billkilpatrick]

carl sandburg mandolin haiku:

slowly creeping in
fast "foggy mountain breakdown"
some feat for this cat

[B. T. Walker]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge mandolin haiku:

Kubla Khan decreed
Damsels playing mandolins
In Xanadu's dome.

[B. T. Walker]

T. S. Eliot haiku:

We're the Holler Men
Heads filled with bluegrass, alas
No teeth; just banjos.

[Dena Haselwander]

Joyce Kilmer:


"I think that I shall
Always see: that mandolins
Come from lovely trees..."



Dena

[billkilpatrick]

anon mandolin haiku:

sticks, stones break my bones
but mandolins won't hurt me
might just break the bank

[Dena Haselwander]

Edward Lear:


"There once was a man--
D'oh! I can't do limericks!
Form ruins the rhythm..."


Dena

[man dough nollij]

Here are a couple I submitted to the Safety Haiku competition here at Mac Town. They could be considered mando-applicable, at least to builders.

Sharp tools need respect
Amputations cramp my style
Ten fingers just right

Band saw is our friend
Careful not to sever limbs
Too much paperwork



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[mandopete]

e e cummings:

oh sweet mandolin
here on the cafe it's nice
to read some haiku

[mandopete]

William Shakespeare:

To B - Not To B?
Used a capo for this key.
That is the question!

[Jim MacDaniel]

Homer Simpson:

Doh! I don't get it
Why would you want to B Flat
When you can B Sharp?

[Jim MacDaniel]

Langston Hughes:


MAS deferred
It sags like a heavy load
And then it explodes

[billkilpatrick]

bob dylan haiku:

afflicted with MAS
a man of constant borrow
like a rolling stone

[Dena Haselwander]

Jim Reeves:


"Hello, mandolin,
Nice to play ya, it's been a
Long time...since I did...


Dena

[Jim MacDaniel]

Jack Kerouac:

It's waiting for you
The transcendental brilliance
Of the mandolin

[B. T. Walker]

Percy Bysshe Shelley:

Ozymandius
Look on my works, ye Mighty
Despair reading TAB.

[billkilpatrick]

francis scott key haiku:

oh say can you see
the economy failing
pac-rim mandolin

[Jim MacDaniel]

Euripides (Coleridge translation)

In Cithaeron's glen
Rites and dances are ordained
Led by mandolin

[MandoNorth]

A few for your consideration....

mandolinist verse
artistry in double strings
plectrum poetry

---

what chord have I struck
when my dog begins to howl
and my cat cries out

---

practice makes perfect
the tips of my fingers hurt
I make love numbly

[mandopete]

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar wants mando...
Quothe the Raven "Nevermore!" #..or perhaps "No Way Dude!"
It's just MAS my friend.

[billkilpatrick]

a.a. milne haiku:

wife is bearing up
"oh pooh! ... one more mandolin!"
now we are 60

[Dena Haselwander]

Dr Seuss:

One chord, two chord, build
A new chord--red flame, gold flame,
Chords that you can't tame...


Dena

[mandopete]

William Wordsworth

Tune mando...but I
Wandered lonely as a cloud.
(Could not find a jam!)

[Dena Haselwander]

Robert Frost:


Whose mando is this?
I think I know--he left it
Here out in the snow...



Dena

[DryBones]

Eastman Give-A-Way
August fifteenth, my birthday
Come home to pappa!

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[man dough nollij]

Southern Hemisphere
Birthday wishes to Jason
Mine is in two weeks

[DryBones]

thanks! Happy B'day to you too!

[B. T. Walker]

Thundering herd nears,
Not "Ghost Riders in the Sky"...
Students start Monday.

Is twenty-two years
Teaching in junior high school
Like Hell's deepest pit?

[Dena Haselwander]

Life in junior high
Makes life in "Hell's deepest pit"
Seem like sweet Eden...



Dena

[Jim MacDaniel]

Berk'ley Music Fest
Alas, so close yet so far
Stuck home with Quicken

[mandopete]

IBMA poll,
the best in 2008?
There's no consensus!

[billkilpatrick]

mandolin classes
extracurricular fun
youthful toe-tappers

[B. T. Walker]

A good fiddle tune
Like "Whiskey Before Breakfast"...
Intoxicating.

[man dough nollij]

Suns coming on up
Lighter, lighter every day
Play a happy tune

Back to Montana
Bridger OM awaits me
No more snow and ice

Summer fades for you
And now winter ends for me
Fiddle tunes in light!



Been a long time gone
At the bottom of the earth
Penguins left. Not me.

[Ted Eschliman]

Ink, lines, spaces, staff:
Mute, until I trace their path.
Fingers, strings, now sound.

[Dena Haselwander]

Horse hair and sheep guts--
Witchy sounding brew; who knew
Music would ensue?




Dena

[JEStanek]

Flames lick a night sky
Cinders flare- consume a home
rally to our friend.

[billkilpatrick]

off on holiday
loss of scroll too much to bear
"beater" back on shelf

[B. T. Walker]

Like modern Neros
Democrats, Republicans
Fiddle while Rome burns.

Windbag senators
Make me want to play mando
In peace and quiet.

I apologize
For linking sweet mandolins
With rank politics.

[Mike Bromley]

Work in Libya
Dessicated mandolin.....
Take beater on road.

Bad Intonation
Tone like a popcorn f*rt, eh?
Cheap Russian strings, too.

Ah, but it's worth it
Sooner or later I get
To play my new hoss.

[mandopete]

New forum software,
I love the photo albums.
Thanks to Scott and Dan!

:cool:

[Mike Bromley]

Tichenor's Baby
Took on some nice new features
In the process, huh?

[Mark Walker]

New format is great
Scott and Dan do greatest work
We just all enjoy

[B. T. Walker]

Mando Haiku bows...
For making the Cafe great
Thanks to Scott and Dan.

[Mike Bromley]

Hail to the Message....
Bored? Join with the Eight-stringer
Seventeen-Beaters!

[Mike Bromley]

Happy Birthday Bill
Big Mon, Your Rhythm Resides
In all of us now.

September Thirteenth
Should be a national day
Of Celebration!

[eestimando]

...Mu gibson f üheksa
mu ainus truu kaaslane
siin julmas maailmas ta...

[Robert Moreau]

a cat in my case
soft warm comfort is found there
under the full moon
:grin:

[Mike Bromley]

Furballs in your Case!
Belly-button lint, from your
Feline Mandolin!

[B. T. Walker]

Fall is arriving...
10:44 Central Time
On Monday morning.

Jazzy "Autumn Leaves"...
The perfect mandolin tune
The first day of Fall.

Best get started now.
Just ninty-four shopping days
Then Santa's sleigh flies.

[Mike Bromley]

Equinox, Solstice!
The Rhythm of the Seasons!
Another year gone....

Seems I tap my feet
Play "Christmas Time's a-Comin"
On the Mandolin.

[mandozilla]

Callouses from hell
Festival season ending
Sore fingers next spring.

:cool:

[Dena Haselwander]

Weber Yellowstone:
My small music room sounds like
A huge concert hall...




Dena

[billkilpatrick]

Equinox, Solstice!
The Rhythm of the Seasons!
Another year gone....

Seems I tap my feet
Play "Christmas Time's a-Comin"
On the Mandolin.

yankee mandolin
libyan desert bluegrass
perhaps an oud, dude?

[Mike Bromley]

yankee mandolin
libyan desert bluegrass
perhaps an oud, dude?


All I can think of:
R O F L M A O
Canuck Mando Dude
:))

[man dough nollij]

Resonator blues
Shiny, but has the tone of
A dented pop can

New Pac-rim reso
With a neck wide as I-10
Goes back to Lansing

Can pick but not spell
In the coaled coaled winter winned
My brane is froazin'

[billkilpatrick]

All I can think of:
R O F L M A O
Canuck Mando Dude
:))

know a'boot it now
"R O F L M A O"
wikipedia

north american
bluegrass in north africa
mandolin mondo

[Mike Bromley]

know a'boot it now
"R O F L M A O"
wikipedia

north american
bluegrass in north africa
mandolin mondo

Geographical
Awareness comes at a price
Nostrils full of Sand

Mondo Mandolin
Becomes somewhat bedraggled
In the hot desert.

[B. T. Walker]

Does sunlight improve
The playing of mandolin
In Antarctica?

In darkness or light
That far south, one fact remains...
It's still really cold!

[JEStanek]

Cold and dry, parched air
night time lasts beyond madness
sunlight - welcome friend

[man dough nollij]

When looking for milk
In the sahara, might try
The drama dairy

[JeffD]

When looking for milk
In the sahara, might try
The drama dairy

:)) :)) :) :( :crying:

[Mike Bromley]

When looking for milk
In the sahara, might try
The drama dairy

When in the desert
Every day is hump day, eh?
Mando in two weeks!!!

:grin:

[billkilpatrick]

benghazi bluegrass
libyan lyricism
where GDA(ff)E reigns

[Mike Bromley]

benghazi bluegrass
libyan lyricism
where GDA(ff)E reigns

The Colonel from Sirte?
Mixolydian Modal
Mando Grandpa Oud!

Son of Oud, is Lute!
Etymological root
Becomes Obvious!

Ghibli blowing Dust
Across the Hot Sands of Time
Seeping through the Cracks......

Haiku, Nipponese.
And, Family Tree, Arabic.
MondoMando Tales......

[B. T. Walker]

Stealth police cruiser...
Wish I had been speed picking
And not picking speed.

[JEStanek]

Lights flash red and blue
cruisers pulled him over
string flashes (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44501) better

bummer, Dude.

[man dough nollij]

Not to rub it in..
No cops, free gas, food, and house
Cold and windy, though.

MAS is like a beast
So ready to be unleashed
Must control myself

Travel round the world
Hit a lot of music shops
Mustn't spend my loot!

Sweet Bridger OM
Waiting for me in MT
Can't wait to play her

[B. T. Walker]

Ticket in the mail...
Big Brother is watching you
Red light surveillance.

Two hits in one week...
I think I'm a good driver
Johnny Law doesn't.

Must drive cautiously...
Mando Acquisition Fund
Depleted by fines.
:crying:

[B. T. Walker]

Uninterrupted...
Both daughters at sleepovers
Makes good practice time.

[B. T. Walker]

No posts in two weeks..
Mando-inspired Haiku muse
Took a vacation!

The USPS
Left a notice to pick up
My new instrument. :)

Two points, oval hole
Quilted maple, Ludewig Blue...
Mandolin beauty. :disbelief: :grin:

[UsuallyPickin]

THanks for the laughter
My friends call me back again
We will be playing

[Jim MacDaniel]

When looking for milk
In the sahara, might try
The drama dairy

Aged West End schedule
Yields no cure for any thirst
The Drama Dairy (http://dramadairy.com/)

[pocketbones]

how happy i'd be
if i could pick like steffey
all hail big sexxy

[billkilpatrick]

eastern light of dawn
falls upon my mandolin
songs of dark promise

sunshine from the west
light warming my mandolin
songs of thanksgiving

northern exposure
my mandolin is glowing
a cool containment

southern exposure
russet colored mandolin
cerulean sky

[Mike Bromley]

Boreal? Austral?
Occident, or Orient?
Compass Mandolin!

[B. T. Walker]

Bm7
To E7 followed by
A Major7.

(Jazzy!)

[Carolyn Hastings]

I'm a beginner
I mess up and break strings, and
My fingers are sore.

Enthusiasm
Pulls me to the mandolin
Like moon pulling tide.

[JEStanek]

A Hastings welcome
Beginners must break and play
Mandolin brings joy

[B. T. Walker]

Already posting
In "Mando-inspired Haiku"...
Auspicious, Hastings.

[man dough nollij]

Back in the states now
No more Oz, Kiwis or ice
Pick up octave soon!

[Carolyn Hastings]

Heh, thanks JEStanek and B.T.Walker!

Restrung mandolin
Without cursing or swearing
Oh, wait...yes I did!

Marauding toddler
Plays with mama's mandolin
Rogue playing a Rogue.

[billkilpatrick]

withdrawn from the world
news unwatched, papers unread
calloused finger-tips

[Mike Bromley]

Sociopathic?
Try one of these little things!
Good fer what ails ya!

[billkilpatrick]

Sociopathic?
Try one of these little things!
Good fer what ails ya!

draw-bridge up, moat filled
counting all my golden notes
m'-wha-ha-ha-ha

[Mike Bromley]

draw-bridge up, moat filled
counting all my golden notes
m'-wha-ha-ha-ha

Mandolin known as
Italy's National Bird
Fly over moat, eh?

~:>

[Dena Haselwander]

Upper strings sound bells,
Lower, the Carol--Christmas
Mandolins begin...

[B. T. Walker]

"Stormy Weather" and
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"...
Bear market anthems.

[B. T. Walker]

What song do you play
Two days before Thanksgiving?
Turkey in the Thaw!
:))

[fatt-dad]

Thanksgiving dinner.
A fam'ly cacaphoney.
Mandolin in case.

(good one Altair!)

f-d

[billkilpatrick]

thanksgiving turkey
lip-smacking greasy fingers
mandolin fowl play

[groveland]

Eschliman cooks up
FFcP and GiJM*
success recipe



*pr. gi'-jum

[man dough nollij]

Back in the states now
No Snow, no blow, no cold, for
The real world is here.

Tried my jam session
Had no clue, but that's okay.
Learning, learning soon.

What's the matter now?
Sun gets lower, that's not right.
Darker: not so great

[B. T. Walker]

Songs of the season...
"Jingle Bells" and "Silent Night"
"Christmas Time is Here".

A boss told a friend
Stop playing Vince Guaraldi
In March and April.
:)

[mandopete]

There's two feet of snow,
In my driveway this morning.
Can you say - SNOW DAY!

Have a great holiday!

[Mike Bromley]

Alberta Deep Freeze!
Cryogenic disaster!
Hypothermia!

Look out the window...
Neighbor shovelling sidewalk...
Mando keeps me warm.

No Chinook wind blows.
Except for the rush of air
Out through the f-holes.

[man dough nollij]

I have mando brain
Snow blowing across highway
Looks like maple flame

[John Hill]

Pick control sloppy
Fingers missing correct frets
New mando will help

[MandoJam]

Once played the guitar
Gave it up for two more strings
Won't be goin' back

Sweet sound in those hills
Ain't no banjo sound like that.
Where's my credit card?

[Ted Eschliman]

Chilled fingers today,
Stiff from scraping sidewalk ice...
Fretboard skills sluggish.

Snow-capped Luxor pics.
Next alarm "Global Warming?"
I'm much in favor.

[Robert Moreau]

Do FFcP
It has been working for me
Fingers steel and free

Holiday for me
Fam'ly and FFcP
Thank you Jazz Mando

Christmas time is here
Mandolin songs and good cheer
Warm strings and cold beer

[man dough nollij]

Dual grooves in fingers
Callusses form on mild flesh
Tough Fingers are Good

Brain is thawed out now
Hopefully I can learn soon
And not forget tunes

Left Austral Winter
Only to find more winter
Here! I would say ARGH!

Lessons would be good.
Pickin' on my own okay
Pickin' help welcome.

[B. T. Walker]

Twelve drummers drumming...
Where are mandolins playing
During Christmastide?

A choir of angels
Is accompanied by harps
And you know what else.

[mandroid]

Winter cold is good,
If it was Hot all year, We,
would have their bugs, here !

Beetle eats your spruce
then no more mandolin tops
to make music on.

[billkilpatrick]

ants and busy bees
hand me down my mandolin
crickets play their part

---
http://www.youtube.com/user/billkilpatrick

[B. T. Walker]

Ash Wednesday starts Lent...
Six weeks and no meat? Easy. :whistling:
No mando? No way. :(

[man dough nollij]

In the Low Lonesome
The high "Coo!" of the Skua
Is the sound I hear

[mandozilla]

Hey man dough nolij
Antarctica would kill me
How do you do it? :confused:


I like solitude
But I also like jamming
Got a metronome? :))


Actually, I'll bet it has it's own kind of beauty way down there huh? :grin:

:mandosmiley:

[mandopete]

(skates out onto the thin ice)

I need a bailout!
I wanna buy a Lloyd Loar
....that won't happen soon

[Mark Walker]

Late winter snow melts
Rains cutting drifts down to size
Bleak mud, brown grass shows

February dies
March will still bring further snow
Warm weather delayed

I will wait for May
Spring temps will prevail in time
Festivals will come! :)

[Womandolin]

I'm the best around
Five lessons, I'm a pro. ooops...
Holding the pick wrong.

:crying:

[Patrick Gunning]

A mandolinist
Transcribing Casey Driessen
Crazy? Time will tell

[billkilpatrick]

feeling jazzed around
pale moons don't excite me
... it's those @!*# chords

[B. T. Walker]

Lost an hour last night
That won't fall back 'til Autumn...
Daylight Savings Time.
:sleepy:

[JEStanek]

an evening's bliss
Mando Magnificat joy
much inspiration

(Thanks, Linda)

[Mike Bromley]

Tick tock tick tock tick....
I think Mother Nature's sick!
Spring ahead?....snow thick!

[TinaBee1]

sun is out today
soft breeze on the mandolin
notes blow in the wind

[B. T. Walker]

Viva Fiesta...
For one hundred eighteen years!
Par-tay, mandolins!


San Antonio
Honors Texans' victory
At San Jacinto.

1836...
Texas wins independence
From Santa Anna.

[B. T. Walker]

School's out for summer...
Can you hear Alice Cooper?
School's out forever!

Unfortunately,
Summer is over and done
Before you know it.

Grab my mandolin,
Some summer music projects,
And head for the porch.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Summer time is here
Sunny with increasing chance
Of back-porch picking

[fatt-dad]

A-style or F-style?
Open up Pandora's Box?
Close your eyes, listen. . .

[Jim MacDaniel]

I and Pangor Ban (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1454746&displaytype=linkview&lastnode_id=1454746)
We share similar passions
He hunts mice, I notes

[Mike Bromley]

A-style or F-style?
Open up Pandor's Box?
Close your eyes, listen. . .

The Syllable Police have cited "Pandor" as being one "a" short of a syllable:))

Today a spate of
Season-welcoming haikus
have bumped the thread, eh?

Back porch tunes, and now
Some pompous Canadian
Syllable-checking....

...seems the offender
and the haiku policeman
have rocks in their head!

:mandosmiley:

[Mark Walker]

Lunchtime I must spend
Mowing the lawn once again
Always growing long

Tractor makes quick work
Round and round the yard I go
grass cut down to size

Now I will have time
Play my mandolin tonight :mandosmiley:
Lawn again next week! :disbelief:

[fatt-dad]

Seventeen syl'bles
is not the only form of
Haiku. Each line must talk.

fatt watching-the-police dad

[mandopete]

Each line must talk, eh?
That's the key to good Haiku.
Mando pickin' too!

[billkilpatrick]

as with "F" and "A"
traditional design works
nyet! to "new" haiku

[man dough nollij]

Darkest time of year
is upon us once again
See the stars at noon.

Pickin's hungy work
Maybe Allen Hopkins will
bring a ham sandwich

Play in the greenhouse
The Eastman would be happy
with humidity!

[Dena Haselwander]

A sad mando dirge
For almost ripe tomato
Killed by sudden hail...



Dena

[fatt-dad]

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
It's Dena Haselwander.
Today's big winner!

fatt pointing-out-seasonally-symbolic-nature-of-true-haiku dad

[Dena Haselwander]

Fatt-dad,


If 'twere still alive
That plump and yummy beefsteak
Would (with salt) be yours...


Thanks! Dena

[fatt-dad]

Beefsteak in one hand.
Mandolin in the other other.
True inspiration!

[Mike Bromley]

Beefsteak in one hand.
Mandolin in the other other.
True inspiration!

Both at the same time?
Frightening Consequences....
Ketchup and Splinters!

[billkilpatrick]

Beefsteak in one hand.
Mandolin in the other other.
True inspiration!

please check out this thread
"sanitizing mandolin"
slather-slobber-burp

[Mike Bromley]

please check out this thread
"sanitizing mandolin"
slather-slobber-burp

Kilpatrick, you nut!
Don't you know it's rude to pick
With your mouth so full?

:grin::whistling:~:>

[JEStanek]

Mandoline slicer
beefsteak tomato cuts
heaven on a plate

[Mike Bromley]

Mandoline slicer
beefsteak tomato cuts
heaven on a plate

Now, would this plate be
Graduated? Or merely
Pressed from Laminate?

Would not the wound strings
Make many ragged edges
On Beefsteak slices?

:mandosmiley:

[Jim MacDaniel]

A roasted beefsteak
Side to a grilled beef steak, rare
Paired with Mandolin (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51552)

[mandopete]

You say tomato
I say tomatoe (Dan Quayle)
Call the whole thing off!

[B. T. Walker]

Air conditioning
Turns hot mandolin picking
Into "Shady Grove".

Triple digit heat,
Not a drop of rain in sight...
Trees fight over dogs.

[dunwell]

tremolo battle
down up down up down faster
pick falls from my hand

[Mark Walker]

Beaver Island calls
Festival gig for our group!
Big stage for the band...

If tomatoes thrown
I have only one request
Please REMOVE from CAN!

:)

[Dena Haselwander]

Watermelons, heat--
Sudden thunders delights us;
Mandolins must wait...


Dena

[JEStanek]

sweet scent of mowed lawn
bike returned from ten years off
new tires, mando waits

(I got my old mountain bike tuned up after 10 years hanging in the garage. It's fun to ride your bike in the neighborhood).

Jamie

[Dena Haselwander]

Our poor mandolins,
Pegs sadly slipping while we
Pursue other joys...


Dena

[Jim MacDaniel]

My new Traveler
Redwood and Rosewood beauty
Can't wait 'till she's built

[Ted Eschliman]

Sweet scent of mowed lawn.
String trimmer slaps church dress shoes,
Dufus' dark socks, shorts.

[Ted Eschliman]

"Beefsteak" memories;
Years ago my former gig:
Chippendales stage name.

[Dan Hoover]

Sweet scent of mowed lawns
eyes water,gnats fly up nose
go back inside to mando..ahh-choo..

[mandopete]

Ted at Chippendales?
We can only wonder if,
He wore his mando hat!

[Jim MacDaniel]

Ted at Chippendale's
A new project for someone
With Photoshop skills

[man dough nollij]

That's a visual
That I really didn't need
Put on a robe, Ted!

[Ted Eschliman]

Beefsteak? Actually, more like Bubba (http://jazzmando.com/images/bubbaf9.jpg)...

[mandopete]

Ted - that picture - it's
Hard to say what's more scary...
The boots or face-paint!

[Mike Bromley]

Ted - that picture - it's
Hard to say what's more scary...
The boots or face-paint!

I can't help mention
The blatant use of rampant
syllabectomy....:whistling:

[mandopete]

I can't help mention
The blatant use of rampant
syllabectomy....:whistling:

Syllabectomy?
What on God's green earth is that?
Sounds like a disease!

:disbelief:

[JEStanek]

To shortify words
a syllabectomy makes
or loose course content

[mandopete]

Hey, I used to be in a band called Syllabectomy....

<sorry wrong thread>

[mandopete]

<bump>

Just put on new strings,
E-X-P Seventy-Five's.
Now adjust the bridge!

[Matt DeBlass]

Jamie pointed out that this was the right home for this morning's musings (copied from my prior post)
Haiku on new strings

behold, fresh bright bronze
sparkling wonder, ringing sound
is that tuner loose?

[Mike Bromley]

<bump>

Just put on new strings,
E-X-P Seventy-Five's.
Now adjust the bridge!

The extra weight of
Anti-corrosion coating
might cave in yer top........:))

[MandoJam]

You Don't Stop Playing,
Will You Please Give Me A Break,
Jesus F-ing Christ!

I thought this in a jam the other night.

[Mandoviol]

Waiting in a case
Sitting underneath my bed,
Mando needs playing.

[Jim MacDaniel]

You Don't Stop Playing,
Will You Please Give Me A Break,
Jesus F-ing Christ!

I thought this in a jam the other night.

That reminded me of one of my favorite Beasty Boys ditties (haiku-ized):

You Can't, You Won't And
You Don't Stop, Mike D Come On
And Rock The Sure Shot

[billkilpatrick]

brown toes hakiu:

unlit corridor
incontinent dog in house
mandolin solace

[Mandoviol]

Haiku on New Mandolin Strings:

Fingers slide 'cross steel,
shining new from envelope.
Ah, sonority!

[mandopete]

brown toes hakiu:

unlit corridor
incontinent dog in house
mandolin solace

Nice segue there dude!
How does one get from dog poop,
to the mandolin?

[fatt-dad]

Winter trinity.
Hat, scarf and fingerless gloves.
Pickin' on the porch. . .

[billkilpatrick]

Nice segue there dude!
How does one get from dog poop,
to the mandolin?

shower then glower
wife cuddles dog while i hug
man's better best friend

[Mandoviol]

Sixteen-ninety-five
Replies to this haiku thread
Is this a record?

[BlueMt.]

free time a plenty
401K memories
scroll envy retreats

[billkilpatrick]

mandolin in lap
what became of old girl friends?
life is long music

[billkilpatrick]

mandolin in hand
step outside in the moonlight
... music, life - ah life!

[billkilpatrick]

12th day of xmas
a fiddle from germany
one ol' boy waiting

[mandopete]

To another year
Here on Mandolin Cafe
Thanks to everyone!

[Jim MacDaniel]

A holiday feast
Served in four or five courses
Tuned in perfect fifths

[B. T. Walker]

Day Five of Twelve Days
Gold rings and a flock of birds...
Christmas ain't over.

Sweeter than ever...
The music of the season
Played on mandolin.

Guy Lombardo and
His Royal Canadians...
No mandolins there.

[B. T. Walker]

In fairness to Guy,
Lombardo played violin,
Mandolin's cousin.

[billkilpatrick]

lawrence welk squeeze box
and-a-one-and-a-two-a
bubbly old folks tunes

[B. T. Walker]

Is Bill Kilpatrick
Imitating Joe Cocker
Flashing a gang sign? :grin:

[billkilpatrick]

tried to give thumbs up
but the sandman intervened
zzz-sss-zzz-sss-(snork)

[8stringdreamer]

out in the back yard
kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, stairs...
i've played everywhere

[mandopete]

Banjo as weapon?
Wow, that's unusal man!
More like a nuisance.

:)

[Mandoviol]

My mandolin is
Sitting in its case. Why have
I not played this week?

Violin is a
Harsh mistress. She and mando
Vie for affection.

[JEStanek]

Blizzard of oh ten
Makes for a good pickin day
Shoveling can wait

[B. T. Walker]

The Sears repairman
Invading my practice space
Fixes the washer.

[Mike Bromley]

Blizzard of oh ten
Makes for a good pickin day
Shoveling can wait

Atta boy, Jamie!
You see we Canadians
Have good excuses!

We even measure
Snow depth in Centimeters
To fudge the amount!

The White Stuff behind
The Forty-Ninth Parallel
Is Hidden Treasure!

[man dough nollij]

No mandolin now
It's boxed and on the way home
Play my air mando

Leaving here real soon
Two days and a wake up left
Warmer climes await!

Brand new Old Wave sits
Waiting for me in the states
Mesquite and cedar!

Pulled the internet
And phones from the cargo ship
Last boat 'till next year

Winter friends return
Braced for the long cold dark night
Sorry, outta here!

[mandopete]

Atta boy, Jamie!
You see we Canadians
Have good excuses!


HAIKU

Is "Dirty Laundry"
a new Canadian term
for a big rip-off?

/HAIKU

[Mandoviol]

The snowfall outside
Makes me wonder if I should
Work or play mando?

[Mike Bromley]

HAIKU

Is "Dirty Laundry"
a new Canadian term
for a big rip-off?

/HAIKU

Er, Haiku out of
Context! Different Snow Job!
One for Shovel, Eh?

Too many Raw Nerves
From Mando Manufacture
Gone terribly wrong...

[8stringdreamer]

Other side of world
it's hot, humid, stinking hot...
makes me fall asleep.

At last! New music!
Sightreading gone out window
Where does the time go?

Love my mandolin.
when it arrived and i played...
beyond fondest dreams

[Mike Snyder]

Snow has a downside
So majestic coming down
The result is mud


Doghouse sits silent
Tenor banjo sulks and pouts
Old man plays mando

[B. T. Walker]

Dirty laundry thread
Now mandolin history...
Time to move along.

Where am I headed?
Ain't nobody feeling pain
Down in Luckenbach.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Snow, snow, everywhere
Even in old Kentucky
Time for some Whitegrass

[Mandoviol]

Marshall and Thile
Duet Gator Strut. Can any
Thing be more sublime?

[Randi Gormley]

I sit in awe, read
These beautiful mando lines
And wish for talent ...

[B. T. Walker]

Canucks versus Yanks
Battle it out on the ice
For Olympic Gold.

Play "O Canada"
Or "The Star-Spangled Banner"
On your mandolin.

[man dough nollij]

In Hawaii now
No mandolins to be seen
Ooh-kalele though?

[Jim MacDaniel]

My Arches flat-top
Is now playing on Maui
In another's hands :(



(BTW B.T.: I must say I like your new avatar)

[Gerard Dick]

Hockey gold medal
In a nail biter
Canada triumphs

[Mandoviol]

Seems academics
Will trump my picking tonight.
Mando waits for dawn.

[B. T. Walker]

As the week went by
I passed another birthday...
Hey! I'm still kicking!

By this formula,
Sixty is the new forty,
I'm just thirty-five.
:grin:

[hank]

Festival Haiku

Muddy trails and song Joyful sounds the smell of rain Warm sun and smiles shine

[man dough nollij]

Back in the states now
Need to find a landing place
Pick up the Old Wave

Rusty playing skills
Callouses all gone away
FFCP time!

[B. T. Walker]

Mandolin:sidewalk :(:mad:...
Always close your case latches;
Make this a habit!

This could have been bad...
Thank God for carbon fiber
Not even a scratch.

[bones12]

NCAA time
Who will win the whole thing now
Maybe Vermont can

[hank]

Down up down up down Blazing blue chip shang alanga bing bang Up down up down up

[RobBob]

Let's see, its been a while;

mandolin sings tales
old and new
to passers by
ephemera - know

[B. T. Walker]

Faith and begorrah!
Wear green on Saint Patrick's Day
Or else you'll be pinched.

[Jim MacDaniel]

US St. Pat's Day:
'Tis Hibernicis ipsis
Hiberniores? ;)

[man dough nollij]

Green beer hangover
Saint Patrick's day was yesterday
Down home on the ice

[B. T. Walker]

Extra haiku points
To Mad Dog Jim MacDaniel
For work in Latin.

Good poetry, Jim...
You deserve a Guiness Stout
On St. Paddy's Day.

[Mandoviol]

First warm day in months.
Birds are singing, grass is green,
Time to pick outside!

[Jim MacDaniel]

Extra haiku points
To Mad Dog Jim MacDaniel
For work in Latin.

Good poetry, Jim...
You deserve a Guiness Stout
On St. Paddy's Day.


LOL -- maybe we can get Eddie over here to do something in Irish

[mandopete]

It's Saint Patrick's Day
And what's for dinner you ask?
Green beer and haggis!

(not)

A nice Irish tune,
Whiskey Before Breakfast is.
Start the day off right!

[rnjl]

Statman's mandolin
breaking all boundaries
I am transfixed

[bratsche]

Impossible love
best fifty bucks ever spent
funky Strad-O-Lin

:mandosmiley:

bratsche

[Mandoviol]

In Spring, a young man's
thoughts turn toward the fairer sex.
Mando sings by night.

Her window, open
to the April breeze, sends notes
to her dozing ear.

She listens, then goes
ad fenestra to see who
sings below in dark.

The lover hides in
the bushes. She goes inside.
Love's successes lost.

[MandoJam]

This post never dies
Thank God for small miracles
I always love it

[billkilpatrick]

In Spring, a young man's
thoughts turn toward the fairer sex.
Mando sings by night.

Her window, open
to the April breeze, sends notes
to her dozing ear.

She listens, then goes
ad fenestra to see who
sings below in dark.

The lover hides in
the bushes. She goes inside.
Love's successes lost.

... twang!

[Dan Margolis]

Collings MT-1
Strings are old but stay in tune
Time to make music!

[Dan Margolis]

A ukulele?
No, it is a mandolin.
It sure is little!

[Dan Margolis]

Need to hurry home
Cannot play my mandolin
While she is sleeping.