Palm Beach Poetry Festival: Musical Haikus by Yaddyra Peralta

By Liz Tracy Thu., Jan. 17 2013 at 7:56 AM

Categories: Arts & Culture

There's plenty of poetry in music, and music itself is the less socially awkward, cuter cousin of poetry. Both evoke all kinds of emotions through things like words, beats, rhymes, and notes. It's all (f)art.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is merely days away, and we didn't want to overlook our fellow wordsmiths. So we asked poet Yaddyra Peralta, who recently taught a haiku workshop at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens as part of the festival, and will be blogging about it on palmbeachpoetryfest.tumblr.org, to write us a few musical poems. The lovely local poetess penned a few stanzas about some famous hometown musicians. She gave us three haikus and a tanka.

Marilyn Manson

Kabuki Manson

face emerges once

from Loxahatchee sludge.

2 Live Crew

Thanks, Uncle Luke--

Boston boyfriend always thinks

big butts at Broward County line.

Rick Ross

Bawse in Davie good sign:

cause a horse forgives, he don't.

Just watch your step.

Wrong Turn Tanka: Broward Edition

Lost on Los Olas,

June 1978 --

snowbird searching

for the Brothers Gibb. Go South,

she said watching tight jeans leaving.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival runs from January 21 to 26. Visit palmbeachpoetryfestival.org for information on workshops and featured poets. Events take place at Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square, 51 North Swinton Ave., Delray Beach.

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