Some of my Mandolin Haiku
Fatt-dad tries haiku
Should I eat or mandolin
Maybe I'll do both.
playing on the beach
Bikini-clad audience
Rusty mandolin
Driving in my car
Using available lanes
Mandolin in case.
Heading to a gig.
I saw your rearview mirror.
'till you cut me off.
Train on the track
Blowing the high-lonesome sound
When will I get home?
Mandolin Haiku
Banjo-bashing poetry
They're just too dang loud!
If there's more then five
And then there's more then seven
Must not be Haiku
Stir fry recipes
Mandolin controversy
Who needs a good book?
Tranquil and serene
Mandolin notes from afar
Beckon to come home
I'm lost, down and out
Storms, with only a poncho
And, my mandolin
Not everybody
Can play costly mandolins
Please advise Gibson
Can someone tell me
What pick did Bill Monroe use
I need improvement
I now have string wire
Glued to my keyboard letters
To keep callouses
Mandolin charades
One word, three syllables long.
Sounds celestial
There should be a rule
To give the way of Haiku
After you've tried it
let's not politic
there's just too much already
play the mandolin!
On a rainy day
Bumpershoot your mandolin
You can play later
Acoustic boutique?
Cyberland of mandolins?
Making the tough choice.
fatt-dad is concerned
Mandolin haiku is hard
Without loosing words.
The free string Haiku
Self-addressed and postage paid
What an awesome deal!
I am sometimes right
Mostly I get it all wrong
Practice mandolin!
It will sound like ####
If you play the #'s for flats
Read the music right!
A haiku respite?
We are playing mandolin.
Wearing out our strings.
Mandolin in case
Something happens on the road
Like Monroe's Breakdown
Mandolin for sale.
Someone else may own it though.
Sell it on eBay!
Flatiron 1N
Versus a Smart mandolin
Wow, what a dif'rence!
Emerged from the case
After a summer slumber
Opens up anew.
Haiku ‘fore Christmas
Not a creature was stirring
Mandolin in case
Thanksgiving haiku
Turkey at my in-law's house
Mandolin in case.
Playing "Simple Gifts"
Overeating and football
I will run it off.
Now in Panama
Trying to speak the language
Mandolin in case
Senorita walks on by
Papa Gordo°s Lullaby
Eight strings and no flats
Leaving Panama.
"Is that a banjo", he asks?
DOES IT LOOK LIKE ONE!
Happy New Year Ya'll
Looking for inspiration?
Mandolin cafe.
Ash Wednesday is here
What should I give up for Lent?
Buying mandolins.
Tuning with a fork?
Try using Intellitouch.
Banjo still sounds off.
The Intellibash.
Sledgehammer tuning method.
Works well with banjos.
Great Haiku poet
Matsuo Munefusa
Knew no mandolin
Driving to a pick.
Winding roads through countryside.
Old-time fiddle tunes.
My practice partner.
Mindless television shows.
Like, The Apprentice.
How do you practice?
Fiddle tunes and five-notes scales?
It's quite a journey!
My mid-life crisis.
Should I build a mandolin?
Alone I wonder. . .
A-style, pancake, "F"
Don't forget the taterbug.
Must have one of each!
Alone in the forest
Is a sighing mandolin.
Will it still make noise?
Alone I ponder.
Fate has taken all my luck.
For I'm Mister Blue
Old time and bluegrass.
Jazz, reels, Celtic and Klezmer.
Mando tunes for all!
That old vintage sound.
Wires and wood of today.
It may never happen.
The greatest picker
From yesteryear or today?
Heck, it could be me!
Dejected and blue.
Great mandolins do not help.
I still need practice!
Are banjos needed
to play "the bluegrass music"?
Ask ol' Bill Monroe.
Rattlesnake rattle
Redneck mandolin virzi
Might-could help the sound
April's fools are gone
Monroe movie cracks a laugh.
Check out Ebay bid.
New-mandolin fund
Gone with IRS payment
And my broke-down car. . . .
troubles go away
work on your mandolin kit
only one c-note.
Changing all my strings.
Callouses with little holes.
Band-aids on the couch.
packing all my stuff.
Where to put the mandolin.
Overhead will fit. . . .
Panamanian.
Plays an old mandolina.
Not much bluegrass there.
Action high or low?
Crisp and clean or whomp on it.
Which do you prefer?
This day I'm fifty.
I play like I'm only 10.
Keeps me feeling young.
Mandolinisto
Not a mandolinista
Old men think fast, no?
If ants play guitar.
Can spiders play mandolin?
One leg for each string.
Mortise and tendon
Do you like the dove-tail joint?
Plenty of options.
I wrote a haiku.
Now where's my scrap of paper.
Washed upon the beach.
I am frustrated.
My mandolins won't play fast.
I guess I think slow. . . .
Playing in the dark.
No one sees my fingers fly.
Hot summer evening.
Eureka, a light!
Alas, but I keep looking.
Can't find the right chords.
The pedal pusher.
Single speed without a break.
Mandolin in case.
Shipping mandolin.
Man, it's really hot outside.
Pieces in a box.
In each rhythmic line.
Convey an elegant thought.
Mandolin haiku.
Running, scotch and beer.
My obsessions of the past.
Now it's mandolins!
I'm writing a book
"How to Sell a Mandolin"
Need some more practice. . . .
Raisin-like fingers.
Spent the whole day at the pool.
Calluses don't work.
Mando on the wall?
H-E-double-hockey-stick.
There are more than one.
Hot summer over?
Rain falling on my front porch.
Where do I play now?
Clink tizzle tizzle.
Old-time hill-billy music.
With a mandolin.
Mando on order.
Top wood, color stain, inlay. . . .
How do I decide?
Removed from the flood.
Praying for recovery.
Mandolin for calm.
Don't like your finish?
Try soap, water and steel wool.
Makes for long, dull day.
Wade in the water.
Gospel tune from southern past.
Seen alive today.
Summertime is over.
Pool is closed - now what to play?
Ashokan Farewell.
A will for your death.
A mandolin for your life.
Music is priceless.
Last trip to the beach.
With my beater mandolin.
Ocracoke Island!
Watching Steffey play
National Folk Festival
I remain humble. . . .
Parenting and teens.
Blah, blah, blah and whatever.
No time for practice.
It makes me loose hope.
To see new Loars surfacing.
Worsens yard sale odds.
Do you want a Loar?
One from Skinner or Milan?
Big price difference.
Pretty mandobabes.
Like angels on a postcard.
Ah, the good old days. . . . .
Practice is easy.
Buying mandolins is fun.
Parenting is hard.
One day I will learn. . .
To play it and not collect.
It just takes more work.
Have you all forgot-
en how to write haiku in
the correct structure?
Record-setting price!
They're just not made anymore!
HOW DOES IT SOUND THOUGH?
Pentatonic scales.
Two-hundred beats per minute.
Learning a new break.
Twenty-three snakehead.
User ID kept private.
Sound familiar?
Music by Monroe.
A mixmaster melody.
Blues and Old-Time tunes.
I'm in a blue funk.
I practice to get better.
Then I hear a pro. . . . .
What are common chords?
A maj. drift from the post.
Some things never change.
Old-time etiquette.
What instrument is loudest?
Let's all take a break.
Too many makers?
Gibson moving to Japan?
Scribed by April fools.
Avoiding practice.
Sanding on my IV kit.
One day I'll finish.
Warmth, the shining sun.
Flying notes from fingertips.
Pleasures of my life.
Flatiron Archive.
History from Montana.
A grass-roots project.
"A Place In The Heart"
MandolinCafe theme song
Learn to play it well
Fake peghead label.
Turns Loar into Kentucky.
Safe from 20 ft.
Eight-string investment
My entertainment center
And rainy day fund.
Mandochondriac.
Strings, tuners, finish, tailpiece?
Frets about it all.
Cigar and wingtips
Something else is missing though. . . .
Mandolin music.
Cross pollination.
Pancake echos to haiku.
Mist upon a pond.
My 12-step program.
I just don't know the fretboard.
Acknowledge problem.
Memorial Day.
Camping trip with mandolin.
Just like years gone by. . . .
This is not haiku.
Running thoughts of mandolins
Onto the next line. . . .
Rockin' on Monroe.
Powerchords and Bluegrass tunes.
Time to get even!
Pickin' on front porch.
Entertaining neighborhood.
No complaints (well yet. . . .)
Buying a guitar.
Depletes my mandolin fund.
Time to save again. . . . .
Fireflys and bats.
Mandolin on the front porch.
Welts on ankles.
Time flies like pickin'
Fruit flies like a banana.
Ode to Groucho Marx.
_____
Heading to the beach.
Baby guitar tuned in fouths.
Mandolin in fifths.
But, will they stay there?
Machines seize in salty air.
Modal tunes don't care.
_____
Building mandolins.
A Derrington legacy.
May God rest his soul.
Jazzy mandolins.
In a rainbow of colors.
A thing of the past.
In Mid-Missouri.
We hail the simplicity.
First-time mandolin.
I'm clicking away.
Missing music in my house.
Time to practice now.
Historic moment.
One-hundred-eighty-five "K".
Today's price of Loar.
_____
Ode to Ernesto.
Wife and daughter out of town.
How I spent my time.
Accompaniment.
The whirring generator.
With front porch pickin'.
______
Kids are back in school.
The leaves will soon fall from trees.
Back to the front porch.
Take a heavy pick.
Seasoned with a real firm grip.
Play your mandolin!
Aged Engleman.
Yet another winter snow.
Scroll of the future.
It's football season!
To practice on the sofa
When the porch freezes
My fingerless gloves.
Extend the front porch season.
When chilly winds blow.
The midst of sawdust.
A new mandolin takes form.
Winter's excitement!
Tone Guard Beliver?
First play it without mistakes.
When volume matters.
Inspirational!
New mandolin lubricant.
Equinox beverage.
Glimpse of the future.
Carbon fiber mandolin.
Playing in the rain.
Mid-Mo joins Rigel.
Amid unanswered questions.
Who will build pancakes?
Honduran Pancake.
A blue-water serenade.
Winter looms at home. . . .
Oh the lowly "A"
Missing the Florentine scroll
Best way to start though. . . . .
Soaking black-eyed peas.
End to the Holiday week.
Calluses on break. . . .
Buying mandolin
Beware of hyperbole
Just pick the best one. . . .
fatt-dad@richmond.com