Musical Haiku Quintet
String quartet concert
missing one violinist—
time to improvise.
*****
Cruising musician
garners Carnegie Hall gig—
fantasy at sea.
*****
Distracted jazzer
misplaces his melodies—
loses audience.
****
Clueless conductor
hurls baton at oboist—
finally a cue.
*****
Billy Joel said:
We Didn’t Start The Fire.
Maybe we need to.
*****
(My first and third haiku were inspired by The Writer’s Island improvise prompt. My second haiku was inspired by Haiku Wednesday’s fantasy prompt. My late addition 5th haiku was inspired by Sunday Scribblings’ fire prompt.)
Tags: Billy Joel, Carnegie Hall, Classical Music Humor, Conductors Humor, Fantasies, Fire, Haiku & Senryu, Haiku Wednesday, Improvising, Jazz Pianist, Music Haiku, Music Humor & Verse, Musical Verse, Oboe Humor, Orchestra Musicians, String Players, Sunday Scribblings, Writer's Island
Enjoyed them all. A most musical quartet.
Thanks very much, Anthony!
These are terrific. 1, 3 and 4 are a bit like the nightmare where you are on the stage and can’t remember the words or the music.
Madeleine, I like all of these, but my favourite is the jazzer.
Maybe we DO need to!
What fun all these were to read.
Great set of Haikus! As a Sundday Scribbler, I take the last one very seriously. I think that it’s time for us to light the fire.
I just love your haiku…especially the last one. I love to laugh a little.
Great haiku, excellent finale!
Thanks so much everyone for your enthusiastic words about my haiku. Writing haiku is a refreshing change from the limericks that I usually write.
Love all five of these!
They’re all great, but No.3 does it for me.
I loved the haiku on fire. Bravo!
Great haiku. Love the theme too :O)
Thanks so much!
I popped to read a Fantasy one and was rewarded with all of these gems, thank you – they’re fabulous!
That was a catastrophe!! Enjoyed it immensely and I’m still grinning!! :)
all your Haiku were very well “Orchestrated” Waaauuuhhh! Very creative Madeleine!
Love the language and the way your haikus link. Hope your fantasy of a Carnegie Hall gig lands upon shore soon. All my best. Excellent work or should I say fun!
totally multitasking with the haikus! but very successfully!
They all seem to “hang together” quite well!
I feel them all and have experienced much of that! Very nicely done!
Thanks so much everyone for your lovely comments!
Loved 3. Nice to stumble across someone else who can triple tongue the siken ladder :)
LOL! Rallentanda, I figured you must be a musician with a name like Rallentanda. But an oboist too? Cool!