Bus Tour Blues (Limerick and Haiku)
Poetry prompts are big on Bluesky. And one of them (the word “tour”) inspired me to write about something I’ve never written about before: touring with the Dallas Symphony way back in 1970.
So here’s both a limerick and a haiku about that experience.
Just imagine an orchestra tour
Via a bus. It was tough to endure:
Two long months on the road,
Bad hotels, our abode…
And no Net, so for boredom, no cure!
Traveled via bus
on 2-month orchestra tour–
Played oboe … and chess.
Tags: Dallas Symphony, Music Haiku, Music Humor, Music Humor & Verse, Music Limerick, Musician Humor, Oboe Humor, Oboe Limerick, Orchestra Tours, Tour Bus, Travel Humor, Travel Limerick
I Can’t Help But Note
Though I hope I don’t sound like a jerk,
it just seems like in your line of work
— with your axe in a pit
until told you could quit —
any travel you got was a perk!