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String Haiku

April 30, 2010 at 10:24 PM

Strings old, cash too low

Six months, twelve months, eighteen months

Dominants last long

Man say “Hey, you’re hired”

Money returns, we’re all glad

Restaurants and new strings

String Mall makes good deal

Dominants on lower three

Choose your own E string

Wrapped package arrives

Feels like Christmas time again

Anticipation

Old tired strings find trash

AGED means change in that order

Silver winks at me

Pirastro for E

Comes with little plastic tube

Beats Dominant E

Peg dope is my friend

Turn peg toward you not away

Maybe backwards – oops

One string change per day

Tighten too far, string goes snap

Fiddle now ready

Bow coaxes sound out

Stretching string makes mournful moan

Chromatic tuner

Writing string haiku

Brings home warm fuzzy feeling

Violin and me

© 2010 Terez Rose

Read your string haikus

Liked them and thought they were sweet

Now I try it too

Terez, I'm so glad

That you have new strings you love.

Make beautiful sound!

Terez writes a blog,

The cleverest one so far;

Big grins all around!

Come to blog and see

Smart responses in haiku

Makes me laugh out loud

Terez blog is fabulous.

Hope violin sounds the same

With new strings on it.

Pauline, Mike, Tom, Anne

Great violinist poets

Hope others try too

I'm a great poet?

Uh, no, you're thinking of Yeats!

But thanks anyway...

Hidden in your lines

Is the great news of a job!

Happy days are here!

Anne is great wise one

Sees big truths behind small lines

Big fat bows to her

Some other Tom.

Anne, Mike, and Pauline rule

as poets, violinists, and v.commers.

Haiku brain won't leave

Thoughts arise, five-seven-five

Husband looks worried

I need to practice-

Procrastination is fun!

The violin waits...

New haiku by Tom

Clunkier than other try

Done in nice font, though

What is the new job?

Computer gig?  Something else?

We'd all like to know...

I'm not all that wise,

But I'll take your compliment.

That bow, is it French?

 >What is the new job?

Juniper Networks

Husband work hard and boss smile

Paycheck look pretty

 >That bow, is it French?

Bow pernambuco

Come from forests of Brazil

Glad to rub new strings

Since paycheck is good,

Maybe some really good seats

To hear SFS?

Old subscription fixed

Farewell to nosebleed section

Back home in 1st Tier

I, too, feel happy

That your husband earns enough

To feed wife's spirit.

Wife grateful indeed

Plus, to have friend like Pauline

Who understands Life

Happy that you found some strings you love!!! This is always fun!

Good luck!

Anne-Marie

Whew, Anne-Marie broke the curse; can finally stop responding in haiku!

Thanks, Anne-Marie. ; )

 Whew, thanks Anne-Marie!  And congratulations on your husband's new job and the new everything else!

Thanks, Karen!

I'll tell you what, this haiku detox is tricky. Once you're there in addiction territory, it's hard getting out. Even now, the five-seven-five thought pattern is there, itching, itching...  

Repeat after self. Reality is prose. Uneven, unmatching prose. With strings attached. ; )

Thanks Anne-Marie.  The quality of mine were going rapidly downhill, and I am sure I would have embarrassed myself if I tried another haiku.

 >I am sure I would have embarrassed myself if I tried another haiku.

Oh, but it's such fun to mess with you afterward! : )

Terez - It's always a pleasure to be the butt of comic relief.

 >It's always a pleasure to be the butt of comic relief.

We aim to please here. ; )

Terez,

Woot on the job front!   Couldn't do the Haiku thing.  Have a difficult enough time counting to four consistently without changing meter :) Door is still open if you ever want to visit Houston.