Image: At a Marines Rehearsal
for the 2012 Christmas Concert (here)
X for Xylophone
The Prose
The strains of a xylophone would
have been a wonderful accompaniment
for any of the Bard's or Basho's works
An ancient masterpiece of a sonnet
or haiku read over with a background
music of that special tone that could
unmistakably come from a typical
xylophone sound would be much desired
It would be reminiscent of the Bard's
Romances and Basho's Travels to lead
us back to those times of cultural richness
The Haiku
never can be two
masters found far apart, a
genius for all times
Frank's at d'Verse's Haibun Monday - two Masters
A to Z Challenge - X
The flow of a poem and the flow of a xylophone are similar!
ReplyDeleteI like how you structured the prose and haiku in a concrete manner, reminiscent of a xylophone. Great work on a unique take on the prompt!
ReplyDeleteThis was enjoyable to read.
ReplyDeleteMusic and words seem to gravitate to each other.
ReplyDeleteI wonder... but I can see the xylophone as a nice backdrop for the words of any poem
ReplyDeleteVery clever poem Hank. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.