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Friday, June 06, 2008

midsummer

a jazzman's trumpet

aims at the stars

(Shiki kukai, May, 2008)

12 Comments:

Tikkis said...: A distant voice --
a servant polishing
his master's trumpet; 12:42 AM
Bill said...: Hey, tikkis. A real trumpeter wouldn't let anybody touch his horn.; 9:10 PM
Masago said...: Thumbs up!; 9:15 PM
Tikkis said...: Bill, Yeah; first of all I had Mr Duke in my mind, and Harlem. When Mr Duke was younger he didn't have a servant, but afterwards, perhaps in a Museum?

Ps: Duke Ellington; "he played the piano but his real instrument was the Orchestra."

Ps 2: Something in Finnish:
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~juhatik/koditon/blueharl.htm; 1:01 AM
haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert) said...: line 3 ("aims at") is very interesting!

(i had to use the dictionary... -- blush...)

best wishes,
Angelika; 8:31 AM
Bill said...: Thanks, Vaughn.

Angelika, that's what dictionaries are for.

Tikkis, some of our jazz musicians are certainly musical royalty.; 9:09 AM
polona said...: wow, i love it. but for me, it's the kind of haiku that doesn't work immediately but becomes better with every reading.; 11:06 AM
Bill said...: Thanks for reading it more than once, polona. The literal image is of the bell of the horn raised as the musician reaches for a high note, probably (midsummer) at a concert under the stars. Everything else is built on that.; 8:10 AM
Anonymous said...: I like it!; 10:46 PM
Bill said...: Thanks, Gautami.; 6:53 AM
Anonymous said...: again ... masterly ...

i didnt know they called that part of the instrument a bell .. the poem captures the whole concert for me (been there !) ... luverly piece >>> Gina; 7:58 PM
Bill said...: Thanks a lot, Gina, a very gratifying comment.; 9:40 PM

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