Mando-inspired Haiku

[Dan Margolis]

I see the problem
The solution is simple
I need an Ellis!

[Ed Goist]

Welcome Mandolin!
New stringed Friend: Graceful, clear, loud.
What sweet, vernal sound!

[hank]

Hear the pick ticking Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick Tick tick tick tick tick

[Mark Walker]

Outdoor temps get warm
Play mandolin on my deck
Sunshine sure feels good

Spring robins hop by
Confused by my mandolin
Worms sound good to them

No bugs around yet
Mosquitoes soon to bite me
Practice back indoors

Michigan is great
If state bird not mosquito
Still life here is grand

[hank]

Can you fix my axe Yes sir you no worry now Work good last long time

[hank]

Baby baby please No more cold and misery Only shorts and tee’s


Cool breeze and cold beer Porch pickin and hanging swings I’m in love with spring

[B. T. Walker]

We've four seasons here:
Summer, football, basketball
Then summer again.

One wintery day
Fifteen fat flakes of snow fell...
My students freaked out!

[B. T. Walker]

Baseball is summer
Or the other way around...
Summer is baseball.

Opening Day soon...
God Bless the Texas Rangers
And the other teams.

:grin:

[B. T. Walker]

The waking birds sing
As the morning sky lightens...
Happy Easter Day.

[Dale Ludewig]

A fine cool morning,
Beagle sitting on the deck,
Blue Jay on feeder.

[Mark Walker]

Tigers play today
On the road - K.C Royals
Spring is really here.

T.V. will be on
Mando will be in my lap
For commercial breaks.

[mandopete]

Tax day approaches,
Are you getting a refund?
It's M - A - S time!

[fatt-dad]

Let's fix old Gibson.
Planes, files, clamps, glue and desire.
Should be good enough.

[hank]

EU president publishes Haiku poetry book

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20100415/D9F3LT882.html

[RobP]

Traded my Breedlove
for a Weber Yellowstone
Im happier now

[B. T. Walker]

Watching the light show
While picking my mandolin
On the glassed-in porch.

Evening thunderstorms
Lightning, thunder, sheets of rain...
I'm glad I'm inside!

It seems so surreal...
The storm raging around you
As you play and play.

[B. T. Walker]

Grades and keys turned in...
More time for mandolin since
School's out for summer.

Kick back on the porch
Pick my mandolin and drink
An ice-cold brewski.

[Mark Walker]

Returned from wedding;
(Daughter lives in Ecuador)
Wedding went quite well

Did some sight-seeing
Ecuador has some cool things
Saw NO mandolins

Guitars seen plenty
No mandolins in Cuenca
Glad to be back home!

Love new son-in-law
Love our daugther's choice in men
Though no mandolins!

Back home on my deck
Silver Angel ringing out
Good to be back home!

[JeffD]

Charleytown Two Step
My goodness what a tune
Moderate tempo

[grassrootphilosopher]

Hear my mando box
play the tunes of Bill Monroe
they sparkle and shine

[mandopete]

Mandolin Haiku....
It's always a treat to read
When I come back here

[Ed Goist]

Mandolin Cafe:
Danger lurks in trolling threads...
"Who's this Bill Monroe?"

[tofutti]

Earworms in my head
compulsively over and over
I hate you don't leave me

[B. T. Walker]

Embarassingly,
I don't write my mom this much...
My one thousandth post.

[Randi Gormley]

Summer picking time:
Poison ivy, mosquitos,
"Dawning of the Day"

I find that the joy
Of music far outweighs all
The aggravations.

[mandopete]

Summertime picking?
That means time to play outside
With friends and cocktails!

[B. T. Walker]

Y'all know the reason
Gin and Tonics are perfect
Summer pickin' drinks?

Limes prevent scurvy,
Quinine stops malaria,
Gin makes you happy.

[mandopete]

Y'all know the reason
Gin and Tonics are perfect
Summer pickin' drinks?

Limes prevent scurvy,
Quinine stops malaria,
Gin makes you happy.

Yes, but can it stop
A case of poison ivy?
Still makes ME happy!

[B. T. Walker]

Yes, but can it stop
A case of poison ivy?
Still makes ME happy!

Poison ivy sucks!
Don't scratch when it itches or
It'll never heal.

Doctors recommend
Calamine lotion and gin --
One outside, one in.

[PhilGE]

Summertime playing
With children, with mandolins.
Command performance.

Peapod or Guittern,
Technique is still my concern,
But the kids don't care.

Timeless lullaby.
Practicing my signature:
3/4 in my heart.

[PhilGE]

revisiting one of my faves:

Haiku! Gesundheit!
Silly man, I'm not sneezing.
This is poetry.

[Jim MacDaniel]

FIFA World Cup blues:
US ousted by Ghana
¡Viva México!

[bratsche]

"Speed neck's slick as snot!"
"Mutilated mandolin!"
Round and round we go...

[B. T. Walker]

¡España gana!
Campeones del mundo --
¡Felicidades!

[mandopete]

Up to Darrington,
grand-daddy of all festers
Here in the Northwest!

http://www.glacierview.net/bluegrass/

[dragonrAy]

Sad in the corner
broken strings and damaged wood
sit alone no more

===

Sliding down your neck
I had so much healthy fun
then the tailpiece cracked

[B. T. Walker]

Happy Bastille Day...
Liberté, Egalité,
Et Fraternité.

[billkilpatrick]

it's too hot to sleep
too tired to even think
mandolin silent

[B. T. Walker]

Cool Siena morn
Warms up as the day passes...
Hot in Celsius.

A handy haiku
If you're used to Fahrenheit
And not Celsius.

Zero is freezing,
Ten is not, twenty is warm,
And thirty is hot.

billkillpatrick's cool
Melting in the Tuscan sun,
Temps in mid-thirties.

[billkilpatrick]

morning revival
hello caffine, my old friend
humming john dowland

"... love doth now invite"
one small step for mandolin
"... sweetest sympathy"

[dragonrAy]

My strange monster boy
sits waiting without his strings
I should buy new ones

===

Eating lunch at work
leaves me thinking I'd like to strum
albeit, poorly.

===

The first luthier choked
in telling me poor method;
now tailpiece broken
I won't go again
to haunt the stoop of his shop
but find better roads.

[man dough nollij]

Cool Siena morn
Warms up as the day passes...
Hot in Celsius.

A handy haiku
If you're used to Fahrenheit
And not Celsius.

Zero is freezing,
Ten is not, twenty is warm,
And thirty is hot.

billkillpatrick's cool
Melting in the Tuscan sun,
Temps in mid-thirties.


20,68
Forty below is the same
30,86

[B. T. Walker]

20,68
Forty below is the same
30,86

Two lucky numbers:
Thirty-eight is one hundred;
Twenty-three ideal.

[manwithnoname]

Mandolin haiku
are cool and sometimes random.
Refridgerator.

[fatt-dad]

a mosquito bite
a swat across the forehead
can't play with headache

f-d

[bratsche]

"Refridgerator?"
Was that misspelled just for some
mandolin content?



bratsche

[man dough nollij]

Extra consonants
Sometimes fool the spell checker
But the meaning's there

[manwithnoname]

Wish I was that clever- unfortunately, I just misspelled it. Love the haiku response, very nice!

[B. T. Walker]

Back to the Three R's...
Readin', Ritin', Rithmatic
Hickory not spared.

The first day of school
I was too busy to play
"In the Jailhouse Now".

[mandopete]

Early start for school,
Down there in the lone star state.
Summer ain't done yet!

[B. T. Walker]

Early start for school
Later than it used to be...
First week of August! :disbelief:

Sea World and Six Flags
Lost their summer hires to school...
Austin pushed to change. :)

[Mandoviol]

Yes! Can it be that
I now have mando lessons?
Too good to be true.

Tuesday afternoons,
No longer for Moody Blues,
Rather mando song.

Wait, the Moody Blues?
I wasn't even around
Back in the Sixties....

[Ed Goist]

Blackface Two Point, You
Exist in My Dreams Only.
So, Who will build you?

[B. T. Walker]

Children want MacBooks,
Daddy wants a mandolin...
Dropping Christmas hints.

[billkilpatrick]

remembrance day
just like it never happened
daddy's home again

[Mandoviol]

I've been at it over
two years now. Can I have a
Tone-Gard for X-mas?

[Randi Gormley]

Layoffs at work. I
survive again. Mandolin
helps deaden the pain

[mandopete]

X-Mas is comming,
The mando is sounding flat.
New strings can cure that!

[Jim MacDaniel]

Pawn shop mandolin
Unwanted and leveraged
Or a dream deferred?

[billkilpatrick]

work, chores - lots to do
string buzzing on the 8th fret
nose far from grindstone

[Mandoviol]

Bust a string, oh joy.
Now to wait for the mail-truck
to bring me new sets.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Rick Turner workshop
Yields Army/Navy cannon
Surprise gift from wife :mandosmiley:

[fatt-dad]

playing in the park,
the neighbor was listening,
"I like your music"

[TinaBee1]

no mandolin content, but I know you'll share my joy :)

just a happy day
1952 Kay bass
it is now all mine!!

[rbvintage]

Now that is Haiku!
Some of the rest, not so much!
Nice Kilpatrick!

[rbvintage]

Billkilpatrick wrote:
work, chores - lots to do
string buzzing on the 8th fret
nose far from grindstone

Now that is Haiku!
Some of the others, not so much.
Nice Kilpatrick

[Ed Goist]

It's May, Spring is here
The time all things come to life,
Like my custom build!

[billkilpatrick]

Billkilpatrick wrote:
work, chores - lots to do
string buzzing on the 8th fret
nose far from grindstone

Now that is Haiku!
Some of the others, not so much.
Nice Kilpatrick

fort jackson, s.c.
basic training, years ago
nose to ground, red clay

[rbvintage]

our home's Fripp Island
pick and sing, maybe fish some.
salt sea breeze. hot sun

[billkilpatrick]

our home's Fripp Island
pick and sing, maybe fish some.
salt sea breeze. hot sun

sandy mandolins
GDAE by the sea
drill sergeant-less

[Popeye39]

Old Joe Clark walks in
Observes my double stop woes
Bids me to play on

[Jim MacDaniel]

No MC, but here is my entry in BikeNashbar's "Tell us your best biking story to win a free fixie" contest...

Why I think I prefer road bikes, a Haiku:

Technical descent
Gnarly unseen Redwood root
Faceplant in pinecones

[mandopete]

Chris Pandolfi's blog....
What is bluegrass anyway?
Time for more Haiku!

[Jim MacDaniel]

New Taylor Swift vid;
Needless banjitar drama:
It isn't Bluegrass

[B. T. Walker]

Out playing first gig
Missed chance for Cafe ball cap...
Doesn't that just suck?

Mandolin music
Goes to the dogs second gig...
ASPCA.

[B. T. Walker]

The students are gone,
Classroom cleared, and keys turned in...
Summer mandolin.

:)
:grin:
:))
:mandosmiley:

[Jim MacDaniel]

Four letter words shock
Reaction gives them power
Relax, they're just words

[Ed Goist]

B.T.: Excellent... Q: What are the three best reasons to become a teacher? Answer: June, July, & August.
Jim: Love it! A very insightful "cross-thread" Haiku, right?

[B. T. Walker]

New school calendars
Use second half of August...
Still a good reason.

Jim echoes Carlin
"The Seven Words You Can't Say
On Television."

[mandopete]

A four letter word
For that bad note in your break?
Some just call it "jazz"!

:)

[Jim MacDaniel]

lol

[fatt-dad]

"These are getting bad."
"Phrases with too much measure?"
"The haiku", he said.

[mandopete]

The Papa Gordo,
He ain't no Madre Flaca...
He's a haiku fan!

@Jim - not enough syllables, I think you meant to say

lol lol lol lol lol
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
lol lol lol lol lol

:)

[Marty Henrickson]

What's with "LOL"?
Can't you think of something else,
Like, "LMAO"?

:))

[Jim MacDaniel]

dmpmp
lmfao
tntl

[UsuallyPickin]

Mandolin again

I return to your sweet tone

Let’s make music

[AnneFlies]

Warm summer morning,
Birdsong against the blue sky,
Soft mandolin breeze.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Correction:

dnpmp
lmfao
tntl

[Randi Gormley]

Hot night. My mando
slips off my lap. Makes practice
A double challenge.

[Marty Henrickson]

Some day, some way, I'll
Get an "F" to join my "A",
Scroll envy, no more!

[Ed Goist]

Marty do not fret,
Why not join the 2-Point Club?
Best of both worlds!

[mandopete]

L M A O ? - Hey!
This is a family site.
Dont want "thread lock down".

[Marty Henrickson]

Thread lock down should not
Be an issue, we'll just stay
Away from those words!

...and back to mandolin-related verse:

Smoothed f-holes or not,
My mandolin sounds as sweet
As my skills allow.

[fatt-dad]

seventeen sylla
Bells do not make a haiku
Line content matters!

[man dough nollij]

Ring sylla bells, ring!
Need to break some words apart
It's cheating, I know.

[B. T. Walker]

Must be the weather...
Breezy mandolin music,
Showers of haiku.

[fatt-dad]

Where's the "like" button?
Things are getting back on track!
More 8-string haiku!

[Jim MacDaniel]

Fatt-Dad's clever post
Intentional irony
LOL

[Jim MacDaniel]

Working on new tune
While my mando gently weeps
Need to practice more

[Marty Henrickson]

Searing southern heat
Drives me to the cooling shade
On the porch swing, strum

[mandopete]

The "Haiku Police"
Are now loose on the Cafe
Watch your syllables!

[mandopete]

And one's kinda odd (like the others weren't?)

Got this from a car......
A / D / Bm / C / F#m / D / E
On the license plate

I was following a car the other day when I looked at the license plate and then substituted the chord names for numbers I came up with this chord sequence.

[B. T. Walker]

It's okay to go
Over the posted limit...
Just do not get caught.

The Haiku Police
Count eleven syllables
In the chord sequence.

Look out, mandopete!
Officers Malloy and Reed
Don't issue warnings.

[fatt-dad]

(topical)

Mandolin tweaking.
Extraordinary tone!
More hyperbole.

f-d

[Mike Bromley]

Columbia Gorge
Four Top Mandolin Experts
One Happy Picker!

River of the West
Discovered by Explorers
Of Mandolin Ilk.

[mandopete]

Columbia Gorge,
With all of the windsurfers
And mandolins too!

[Jim MacDaniel]

Much indecision
Black top versus black body
Then finish finish

[AnneFlies]

Spruce seedling grows large,
Carved into small shapes that sing.
My little Sweet Pea.

[Michael-W.]

Since I read some of your fantastic haikus I was tempted to try one myself.

Mando or Mazda
The decision was easy.
I ain't gonna WALK!!!

Cold German winter.
Mandolins in abundance....
A warm cozy home.

They were soooo negative, here is one for the real mandolin lovers.

Mandolin alone,
beautiful and bright shining,
a pleasure to see.

[fatt-dad]

mandolin haiku
likes welcoming new poets
it's a way of life.

[B. T. Walker]

Seventh inning stretch...
"Take Me Out To The Ballgame"
Played by Don Stiernberg.

I'd rather hear that...
Talking heads drone endlessly
Rangers are losing.

[billkilpatrick]

never got the blues
i never believed in it
mandolin instead

[Ed Goist]

I do get the Blues
But these Blues Swing the joint! Yea...
The Yank Rachell Blues.

[AnneFlies]

Mandolin summer,
Warm skies and wood, singing strings,
In flowered garden.

[billkilpatrick]

Mandolin summer,
Warm skies and wood, singing strings,
In flowered garden.

excellent.

[mandopete]

The blues ain't nothing,
but a good man feeling bad.
(and a cheap mando).

[man dough nollij]

Laying on the grass
Oooh! and Ahhhh!, and BOOM! and POP!
A wonderful fourth.

[Jesse Harmon]

gorge bound picking through
michigan-california
crazy mandolin

[Jesse Harmon]

wind surf mandolin
columbia gorge gusting
cafe hurricanes!

[Jim MacDaniel]

Djembe gift from wife
Impacts my mandolin time.
To fret, or fret not?

[man dough nollij]

Saw Sierra Hull
With Ralph Stanley and the gang
In Boulder last night

Great show. Sierra was more of a showman (showperson?) than I had expected. Hot pickin', and not so much Alison-Krauss-clonish as I had expected. Ralph's band is HOT! I wasn't really expecting smokin' bluegrass from them, but they delivered. Wait. That too many syllables...

[billkilpatrick]

mandolin murmurs
cicadas crick and birds tweet
busy busy ants

[Marty Henrickson]

Big Mon and Baker
Pickin' at the Pearly Gates
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz

[B. T. Walker]

Mandolin Cafe
Gives away another cap...
Rats! Missed it again.

[Ed Goist]

Big Mon and Baker
Pickin' at the Pearly Gates
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz

Very classy and well done.

[Treblemaker]

Most folks have no clue
I get this question alot:
Is that a banjo?

[LastMohican]

Thirty five dollars
For plastic with beveled edge?
Blue Chippers smoke pot!

(Now...don't flip out! I'm buying a BC myself.)

[Dan Margolis]

Down and up and down
And up and down and up and
Up and...arrgghh! Practice!

[Marty Henrickson]

Originally Posted by Marty Henrickson
Big Mon and Baker
Pickin' at the Pearly Gates
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
Very classy and well done.

Thanks, Ed. I was inspired while browsing through some of Kenny's music I have in my collection. I was also inspired to start learning to pick "Lonesome Moonlight Waltz" myself. So I now have another tab pulled up on my browser with the Song-A-Week thread about LMW, and I have really been enjoying hearing some of the versions posted there, as well as trying it myself. A beautiful tune.

PS - I have enjoyed your contributions here on the haiku thread, as well!

[AnneFlies]

Early morning notes,
Yet so much more than just notes.
Universal soul.

[B. T. Walker]

Heat waves rippling...
My mandolin's sound ripples
Blown on by the fan.

[fatt-dad]

my mandolin fund. . .
It's tanked with the stock market!
I had such high hopes. . .

f-d

[Mike Snyder]

Winfield. Going soon.
New strings, camper is well stocked.
Surely, sore fingers.

[Ed Goist]

Played through a tube amp
Warmth, Power, Richness and Class
E-Mando: "More Please!"

[mrmando]

What do you call a
Hundred banjos in one room?
Target practice! (Ha!)

[mandopete]

My 401-K?
Looks like I'll never retire.
Play mando instead!

[fatt-dad]

(ode to Irene - yes, we're still without power. . .)

fiddle tunes in A
generator hums in B
no part of nothin'

f-d

[AnneFlies]

Too hot, too humid,
To hold my pick and twiddle.
Lonely mandolin.

[AnneFlies]

Courses and seasons,
Four of each, in their own time.
Our song continues.

[JEStanek]

A change of season
A different set of tunes
calls in the harvest.

[Ed Goist]

Mandolin Nature,
Has a course for each season.
Which course is Autumn?

[JEStanek]

Not a haiku but I liked Ed's question. G - Rich and full sounding, could be Autumn, D - Spring - Thing seem to take off anew from the D course. A- Tempermental like summer weather. E - can be harsh and brittle like winter air. All played together is years and years of joys and sorrows.

Jamie

[journeybear]

There is also a school of thought regarding the general emotional resonance of each key. This is somewhat archaic by modern standards (perhaps - there may well be many who still feel this way), but I believe this was all the rage in the Baroque era. We had a lot of fun on this thread a couple years ago: Emotional content of various keys (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?51230)

Meanwhile, ruminations on another subject have led me to (I can scarcely believe it) my first contribution to this long-lived thread:

new philosophy:
my strings are not out of tune
they are just tuned wet

[TinaBee1]

that is a lovely haiku AnneFlies. Love your avatar. I considered something similar for a tatoo :)

[fatt-dad]

Today in hist'ry.
The world lost two great icons.
Jansch and Jobs are gone.

[mandopete]

Seems like hist'ry
Keeps comming faster, faster...
I'm afraid to blink

[B. T. Walker]

Better ninty-one
Than one hundred eleven
Degrees in the shade.

Thirty-three degrees
And forty-four degrees C
For you metric types.

These haiku composed
Utilizing a MacBook...
RIP Steve Jobs.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Steve Jobs' legacy:
Merged computing, phones, music;
And mandolin apps :mandosmiley

[fatt-dad]

I don't like Mondays.
Columbus Day Holiday.
I like exceptions!

[Jim MacDaniel]

Steve Jobs' legacy:
Merged computing, phones, music;
And mandolin apps :mandosmiley:

(forgot to close the mandosmiley)

[AnneFlies]

Like butterfly wings
Moving air, a storm gathers,
The music begins.

And, thank you TinaBee!

[AnneFlies]

Last leaf on the branch
Tremolos down to the ground.
Winter approaches.

[billkilpatrick]

Last leaf on the branch
Tremolos down to the ground.
Winter approaches.

excellent - perfect, in fact. if i have this right, by definition, traditional haiku should contain a reference to nature.

[AnneFlies]

Thank you, Bill, and you're right about haiku and nature references. Combining music (especially mandolins) with nature is challenging but rewarding when it comes together.

[Ed Goist]

Listen, what is that?
New e-mando on its way,
and thunder will roar.

[AnneFlies]

Bare trees standing straight,
Each a note in a measure.
Fall's last symphony.

*Just a note on the recent discussion on haiku: traditional haiku does include a mention of nature, specifically seasons, but modern haiku does not require that. For me, personally, I enjoy including nature and the seasons in these short poems because it's a challenge to me, and most of my inspiration comes when I'm walking my dog through the park. Meshing music with nature has added a special dimension to me. So, thank you to mad dawg for starting this thread!

[Marty Henrickson]

Full moon, bare branches
"There's no light in the window"
Vision blurred with tears

[billkilpatrick]

beautiful - no mandolin content, but beautiful ... poignant

[mandopete]

Electric mando,
MAS has stricken me again.
What's next, Marshall stack?

:))

[Ed Goist]

Electric mando,
MAS has stricken me again.
What's next, Marshall stack?

:))

Oh no Mandopete,
Gear acquisition syndrome.
GAS makes MAS look tame!

[billkilpatrick]

mandolin challenge
"here, there and ev-er-y-where"
song at harvest time

[B. T. Walker]

Gentle rain falling
Inspiring mando haiku...
Maintenance disrupts.

Advent tomorrow...
Hints of Christmas in the air
Blown by cold north winds.

[fatt-dad]

the Thanksgiving host
lots to do and much to serve
thankful for music

[mandopete]

When Black Friday comes
I'll fly down to Muswellbrook
Feed the kangaroos

[billkilpatrick]

When Black Friday comes
I'll fly down to Muswellbrook
Feed the kangaroos

stealy friday dawns
two-dan elbows to the fore
mando-bargains ne'er

[Barefoot Bud]

The tall sitka spruce
Slumbers sound while dreaming he
Is a mandolin


Time to go to sleep
Visions of Gibsons, a few
More of Loars- sweet dreams


:sleepy:

I just saw this thread and wanted to give it a try. Though it's 2:25 am and I think it shows. ha

[bd_nashville]

As the morning breaks
I strum my eight-stringed delight
G, D, A, and E

[mandopete]

'Twas the night before...
A merry mando Christmas,
To all a good night!

[B. T. Walker]

New Year's Eve is here
Two Thousand Twelve tomorrow...
Where has the time flown?

[sjf]

nevermind :redface:

[mandopete]

New Year's Eve is here
Two Thousand Twelve tomorrow...
The end of mankind?

(Dang Mayans!)

[AnneFlies]

G'day, he calls out.
GDAE, she sweetly responds.
Shall we? My pleasure!

[Mandoviol]

Early one morning
At the St. James Hospital...
Can't fit rest of song.

[B. T. Walker]

On the mandolin
I'll play her a well-known tune...
Happy Birthday, Mom.

Assassination
Or "Beware the Ides of March"
Julius Caesar

Glad Julius wrote
Salad dressing recipe...
It is delicious.

[AnneFlies]

New strings, like roses,
Brighten a summer morning.
Hidden thorns draw blood.

[Randi Gormley]

Thanks, Anne ... I love your haikus!

[AnneFlies]

Thanks, Randi - I enjoy writing them, and the mandolin is a great subject.

[AnneFlies]

Dancing through the woods,
Muddy boots and wind-blown hair.
Music on the breeze.

[mandopete]

Just heard about Earl....
Never got to see him play
So glad I heard him!

[Marty Henrickson]

Foggy mountains sleep
Down the road, a robin weeps
Earl Scruggs' farewell blues

[Marty Henrickson]

*or*

Foggy mountains ring
Lonesome Ruben made them sing
Who will sing for me?

[Ed Goist]

No MC, but offered here for some weekend humor :) ...

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[Ed Goist]

Today is National Haiku Poetry Day (http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/national-haiku-poetry-day/).
So, I'm expecting to see some gems posted here today!

[billkilpatrick]

haiku poetry
with seventeen syllables
mandolin macht frei

[billkilpatrick]

violin been binned
the vièle can go to hell
mandolin again

[Randi Gormley]

Across the room, sun
makes dust nets across windows.
Need a mando break.

[fatt-dad]

Pickin' on the porch
I'm freed from winter's confine
Summer's blast? Not yet. . .

f-d

p.s., happy Haiku Day!

[mandopete]

The tax man cometh,
The tax man taketh away.
No new mando now!

[AnneFlies]

Red tulips blooming,
Bright windy day, breezy strings.
Spring picks a sweet song.

Thanks, Ed, for the heads-up on National Haiku Poetry Day. BTW, where's yours? I love what's been posted so far!

[fatt-dad]

First tune, open mic. . .
Keep tempo, no clams, stay calm.
It's done! Applause! Yea!

f-d

[Ed Goist]

Drums, voice, mandolin,
Levon Helm could do it all,
May he find the Way (http://www.levonhelm.com/).