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From Moose, Goose, and Orb Weaver
All seized by Haiku


"Why moose and goose?" you may ask. Back on 2/04/13 Pirate wrote a haiku with an elk in it, and I responded with
one with a moose and then included him every day. A few days later in comments Mystic asked "Where's the goose?"
So I started including her with this post on 2/07. A week later on the 14th, Mark Readfern
asked for and received a spider. The rest is history.

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Friday, February 22, 2013

Crpe Diem #128 - Castle

Pictures At An Exhibition, originally written for piano, is one of my all-time favorite compositions.  I was thrilled to have an opportunity to perform the meaty bass trombone part in Ravel's brilliant orchestration a couple of years ago.  There are no trombones in The Old Castle section, but I absolutely love it.  Strangely, it features an alto saxophone.



Leaving nothing to chance, I'll point out that this is NOT the orchestra I play in



Within this moat
Rock hard I will not yield
Instead I'll starve


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The old castle
Moss and tumbled broken stones
Ghosts left long ago


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Rock pile
Once a proud fortress
Cold rain falls

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Moose opens King Pawn
Goose plays odd Sicilian
Castles on Queen side

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Orbital web
Strands stronger than steel
Weaver's castle

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Carpe Diem # 128

12 comments:

  1. A wonderful weave on things 'castle' including chess strategies! nicely JzB!

    Hank

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  2. Oh I bet you are a great chess player, JzB! Thanks for a whirlwind tour of the castles of your mind, not unlike the windmills of your mind!!:)

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  3. kaykoula - thanks

    wabisabi



    I'm actually quite a bad chess player. I blame it on poor visual acuity. Often, after losing, I'd say, "I didn't see that coming."

    And maybe that's why castles look so much like windmills . . .

    Cheers!
    JzB

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  4. I trust that the chess game between Moose and Goose will continue in tomorrow's episode!

    Castle Fence

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  5. Ahhh - don't hold your breath on the chess game

    JzB

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  6. Nice!
    How did I not think of chess?

    She called rooks castles
    I never corrected her
    They moved just the same

    Uttley

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  7. Ghosts left long ago --- truly makes the castle a sad place..
    Rock pile
    Once a proud fortress -- my favorite
    but that first haiku, is amazing, how you captured royal pride

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  8. Do ghosts really leave old, broken-down castles, or are you just hoping that's the case? :)

    Building Sand Castles

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  9. With the 2nd and third the idea is of a ruins so ancient and thoroughly destroyed that even the ghosts gave up.

    Thanks for the comments

    JzB

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  10. Wonderful all variations on castle.. I also learned something, I had always thought that Pictures on an exhibiton was Mussorgsky, but that was apparently the piano piece that Ravel put in orchestration... :-) very nice.

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  11. the chess references were totally lost on me, but the rest was super...the cold rain falling chilled me...as did the ghosts, of course....

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  12. fortress ruins
    something mossy tumbles
    into the moat

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