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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
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:24 AM
Read your string haikus
Liked them and thought they were sweet
Now I try it too
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 9:33 AM
Terez, I'm so glad
That you have new strings you love.
Make beautiful sound!
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Terez writes a blog,
The cleverest one so far;
Big grins all around!
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Come to blog and see
Smart responses in haiku
Makes me laugh out loud
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Terez blog is fabulous.
Hope violin sounds the same
With new strings on it.
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Pauline, Mike, Tom, Anne
Great violinist poets
Hope others try too
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:00 PM
I'm a great poet?
Uh, no, you're thinking of Yeats!
But thanks anyway...
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Hidden in your lines
Is the great news of a job!
Happy days are here!
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Anne is great wise one
Sees big truths behind small lines
Big fat bows to her
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Some other Tom.
Anne, Mike, and Pauline rule
as poets, violinists, and v.commers.
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Haiku brain won't leave
Thoughts arise, five-seven-five
Husband looks worried
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:16 PM
I need to practice-
Procrastination is fun!
The violin waits...
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:15 PM
New haiku by Tom
Clunkier than other try
Done in nice font, though
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:19 PM
What is the new job?
Computer gig? Something else?
We'd all like to know...
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:24 PM
I'm not all that wise,
But I'll take your compliment.
That bow, is it French?
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:31 PM
>What is the new job?
Juniper Networks
Husband work hard and boss smile
Paycheck look pretty
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:33 PM
>That bow, is it French?
Bow pernambuco
Come from forests of Brazil
Glad to rub new strings
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Since paycheck is good,
Maybe some really good seats
To hear SFS?
Posted on May 1, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Old subscription fixed
Farewell to nosebleed section
Back home in 1st Tier
Posted on May 2, 2010 at 5:15 AM
I, too, feel happy
That your husband earns enough
To feed wife's spirit.
Posted on May 2, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Wife grateful indeed
Plus, to have friend like Pauline
Who understands Life
Posted on May 3, 2010 at 8:11 PM
Happy that you found some strings you love!!! This is always fun!
Good luck!
Anne-Marie
Posted on May 4, 2010 at 3:02 AM
Whew, Anne-Marie broke the curse; can finally stop responding in haiku!
Thanks, Anne-Marie. ; )
Posted on May 4, 2010 at 3:22 AM
Whew, thanks Anne-Marie! And congratulations on your husband's new job and the new everything else!
Posted on May 4, 2010 at 2:26 PM
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. ; )
Posted on May 4, 2010 at 7:49 PM
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.
Posted on May 5, 2010 at 2:21 AM
>I am sure I would have embarrassed myself if I tried another haiku.
Oh, but it's such fun to mess with you afterward! : )
Posted on May 5, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Terez - It's always a pleasure to be the butt of comic relief.
Posted on May 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM
>It's always a pleasure to be the butt of comic relief.
We aim to please here. ; )
Posted on May 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM
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.
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