April 09, 2011

haiku - NaHaiWriMo ~ music

I've been participating in NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month - which seems to have turned out a rather internal event). Each day there's a given subject. Today the subject was "music". I wrote more than I published on the Facebook site, so here they are:

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night had a voice -
now even darkness
is a little darker


(Indian singer Bhimsen Joshi passed away January 24 2011)

Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi
Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gGkUboxv8E


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walking the rain dogs -
Alice in red shoes
on Skid Row

(Tom Waits)

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disintegrating cities -
to be sane in an
insane world

(Einstürzende Neutbauten)

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Lachrymae Antiqua -
I've got recent tears to
pull on your string


through the lachrymal canal
we dance a pavane
of the slowest kind


(John Dowland: Lachrymae Antiqua / Flow My Tears http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrzAo9Wl4 )



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Tiger Mountain -
am I an airport in
another green world



Neroli -
I am a stamen
catching echoes



thursday afternoon -
driving in Dali's car
for the equatorial stars

(Brian Eno)

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nothing out of place -
I hold up a mirror
for the sun

(Haydn: Die Sonnen-quartette op. 20)

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head over heels -
I draw angels
from a milk calf skin

(Cocteau Twins)

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lost river -
I catch a sound
and it changes


unmapped
this coiling river stream -
now: a starfall

(Tangerine Dream: Rubycon)

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the right side of the moon
a Bach Cantata
embedded in silver foil

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the moon in a tux -
I'm way past
speaking

(Tuxedomoon: In a Manner of Speaking)

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rivers of blood
a future cathedral built
with five voices

(Carlo Gesualdo, late renaissance Italian composer:Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gesualdo ,
Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZAs9LjJAHU&feature=related used harmonics otherwise not seen/heard until the 1920's. Killed his wife & her lover, mutilated their bodies and hanged them on the outside wall of his castle)

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