Chiff & Fipple Presents:
Tinwhistle Haiku
edited by James Isaacs and Dale Wisely
3rd Annual Chiff & Fipple Haiku
Contest Entries, Part I
322
d-e-f#-g
the first four notes of our scale
if you play in D
323
boxwood makes a nice
flute but I'd rather have a
whistle made of brass
324
You stop that racket!
No one wants to listen to
your silly bodhran
325
session etiquette
translates into how not to
tick musicians off
326
ta me go math, I
say, when it's Irish music
I'm playing with you
327
flute bodhran fiddle
accordeon and whistle
can't we get along?
Stuart Hall
328
Lip balm in my purse
could not be found, for my Clarke
D was in the way
babygrand
WhOA Woes
329
So many whistles,
So little money to spend.
I'll take the Walton!
330
Vase with tin bouquet,
The effects of WhOA displayed!
You need ALL of those??
331
Cook, Clarke, Clare, Chieftain,
Alba, Bay, Burke, Oak, Sweet, Shaw . . .
WhOA! I can't Cope-land!
--
332
Past celebrations
Reach across the years to me
As jigs dance from tin.
333
Beauty
emerging
From simplicity of form . . .
Strength of the Whistle.
334
Tin, wood, nothing more.
Making enchantment and joy.
Melodies are born.
335
Creating music
To the music Creator.
Joy consummated!
---
336
Jumped, squeaked slipjig grates.
Patience ends as glare begins.
"Commercial's over!"
Vinny Di Gloria
337
Norelco razors
Buzz noisily--better than
A recorder, though.
338
A beer-soaked fipple
On a tarnished, worn brass tube:
It's traditional.
339
He said, "A session
Of a thousand tunes begins
With but one whistler."
340
She asked, "How come you
carry a pennywhistle
Everywhere you go?"
341
I smiled and told her,
"It's easier to carry
than a piano."
Chet Scoville
342
Perfect instrument.
Beauty and simplicity,
in equal measure.
Les Smith
343
Poor birds are crying
Whistle sounds like it's dying
Shelley says "Stop it!"
344
Not another toot
No more loud high screeching notes
Big Dog won't come home.
345
Buy another Clark?
What in the hell you doing?
The poor boy is lost.
346
Is this stuff Haiku?
See birds fly far, far away
As whistle touch lip!
347
Whistle screech by Dave
Inspiration from Shelley
Dog still won't come home.
Dave Hulsey
348
tips, cuts, rolls in reels
ornaments make the tunes nice-
Give a happy feel!
349
good beginner horn
tin whistle easy to play-
but hard to play well.
Mari
Deavenport
350
Fifteen hundred on
A tin whistle list. Should I
Be scared? I think so.
Ryan Stewart
351
I blow my whistle
downwind because spit showers
spoil a fresh hair-do
352
My Clarke retrieves
notes from whence the wind blows
and sings my soul there
Happy Herbert
353
I am bored silly
Till I pick up my whistle.
Bad but having fun!
Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan
354
O.K. Dale, here goes -
Tin Whistle Haiku? O.K.
Oh no! No room left!
355
Now let's try again.
Dale, the undisputed King
Whistles - what power!
356
Antsy, must whistle
Eutopia! house empty
Oh no, wife returns!
William Mangum
357
Saliva drips down
From the end of my whistle
Like silvery pearls
Sue
358
To the park
to play
Peaceful the world and myself
ready, I sit ........oops!
Peter Murray
359
beginning whistle
cats run frantic, fear for life
husband soon crazy
Linda Rudd
360
The workday beckons.
My tinwhistles snooze, untouched.
Night will bring much noise.
361
bare limbs and slow airs --
numb fingers explore tone holes
finding winter's breath
362
whistling at dusk --
mockingbird echoes the tune
beckoning nightfall
363
first light whistling,
notes scream in sleepy eardrums --
coffee not needed
364
sad music from
ivory plumbing fixtures ...
Water Weasel love
David Dawson
365
What a cute whistle
I'll learn to play just one tune
That's what I thought then
366
Key of D or G
It doesn't matter to me
I will play them all
367
Madden or Bergin
Their music sounds sweet to me
Duet would be nice
368
Low D is the prize
It would look nice on my lips
How can I win it?
369
Whistle while you work
Whistle when you are at play
Whistle all the day
370
At work, all day long
Can't get it out of my head
That last whistle tune
371
Not just for Irish
Its an instrument for all
Might it bring world peace?
Dan Manson
372
Who can make sweet tweet
chirrups to gladden this fan?
Joannie Madden can!
Ed Turbert
373-375
THREE WHO ARE GONE
At the square in Gort
Kieran Collins played whistle:
cobblestones echoed.
Jim Donoghue's Clarke,
fipple seared by red-hot blade,
blared like a trumpet.
Ed Tighe and I played
whistles at Tom Feeney's wake.
I played for Eddie.
Frank Claudy
376
A single note on
my whistle: enlightenment!
Nothing in my hands
David Graham
377
Inhale
and exhale.
Warm
air and condensation:
drowning
in spittle!
378
Whistle
melodies:
just
pensive afterthoughts on
a
discarded breath?
Glen
O'Hara.
379
Cats
going crazy,
so I fashioned a nifty
cellophane tape mute
380
Umpty-ump
whistles
cluttering my living room -
where to put them all?
381
Condensation woes -
why doesn't Michael invent
spit valve for Copelands?
Wendy Morrison
382
chiff's
a fuzzy cat
at my mother-in-law's and
he sounds like a pipe
Hugh
Ryan
383
a
savage wind blew
no sound from fipple that day
panic struck on stage
Jeff
Sloan
384
Wisely
is a god!
Not brown-nosing, I swear...but
Have extra whistles?
Jessica
Anne Howe
385
She
said to stick it
forward, backward or sideways
Must not like whistles.
386
with
lips to whistle
the notes of song blow through me
so much like a prayer
Jim
Durdin
387
I'm new to whistles
I'd like to whistle low, Dale.
How low can I go?
388
If
music is life,
low whistles are the romance
we're all looking for.
389
Titanic
had one,
and so does the Riverdance.
Want one in my pants!
390
Trying
to build one
is not easy by myself.
The Message board helps.
391
I'm
new to haiku
Low whistling is my goal.
C & F, my map.
392
Why
would a person
give up much time and effort
to help whistlers
393
I do
think I know
It's a passionate pasttime
that makes life worthwhile
394
Now
here's a problem
I can't stop writing haiku.
What am I to do?
John G.
Rogers