kitsch
crowded
streets
fast
flowing
feathers
and
pointed
feet
jagged
distinctive
unique
pressure
peoples
kirchner
streets
Who is this kitsch
This wicked witch
A wanton, wailing, wistful waif
That sits all day
To pine and bray
The deeds of a sordid night
Written 2024.06.25
BREUGEL
peopled
pictures
HOGARTH
satirical
scenes
KIRCHNERR
kitsch
crowds
TWINKU a double word distich with integral title
Kitsch, give me a
Sign
To go
It’s kinda funny how
life
goes on
While you sit in a corner
all
alone
The saturday blues are real,
To
Your
Shoes
Weighing
You down like stones
On your foot
And the
Crinkle cuts of the eyes
Are a beshrew
Aging, as they call it,
In action,
A sequence
“Folds aren’t good for you”
kitsch
crowded
streets
fast
flowing
feathers
pointed
feet
jagged
distinctive
yet unique
something
so inexpressible
a chord
so vivid from an uncontrolled
inner drive
beyond memory
the unstated
distilling the hidden
an essence
of yesterday’s
buried in today
a symbol
of
love
suggestive
yet
of time
immemorial
lost in
a moment
where time
does not
exist
One
with the other
alone
& yet..
desire..
and need
together
exist
contemplating
a suave
astonishing
pastiche
before
&
despite
either
in
an
austere
feeling
of
fine
beauty
Once upon a Halloween
I was a little black cat
Since then I have also been
A witch and the Cat in the Hat
One time I was Lily Munster
And then a witch again
I was also once Bart Simpson
Another witch, and then
A wizard and a zombie, too
The following year, a fairy
And, just to try out something new
More witches, sweet and scary
Dressed in purple, and in orange
And even once in silver
And, like a squeaky door hinge
A laugh to make you shiver
It may not be the best you’ve seen
This costume both cliche and kitsch
But when all else fails on Halloween
You can’t go wrong with being a witch!
drawing
upon
the commonplace
of life
bean tin
kitsch bin
contemplated
large & dramatique
seemingly fun
& part comique
candy floss
characters
&
fifteen minute fame
a
taxonomical
neo-geo
connoisseur
moves on again
to
a totemic
astonishment
of many
yet
stifling
in every sense
&
in it all
prosaic
inspiration
poetically described
as
dystopian reimaginings
of flotsam
a natural
detritus
embedded
yet
not belonging
littered with empty
kitsch
inlaid with
a peripatetic
identity
&
linguistic
incomprehensiblity
a
perfected
undertaking
before
disillusionment
was growing
into
an insular
mutely
societal moment
a
tormented
self-portrait
to
reflect
the days
but instead
depicted
a recognition
of
largely passing
decades
hoisted
&
seared
in
a
retrospective
survey
on her lawn
four pink plastic flamingos
peak above a March snowbank
twisted forms caught in forlorn evasion
beak-body contortions like wrestlers resilient
in pretzel formation
unmanageable remnants of warmer days
denied the dignity of upright
plastic muck ups, a nostalgic weep of summer
wishing a solar Florida footing
their caught spirit of iced- playfulness
a pink flamboyance
teasing an icy surface
four plastic birds, frozen status
kitsch defensive
misplaced images like on-line love
wing swept longing
to flee this barren snowbank
nudging a tardy spring's erosion
with its courtship fringes
Poem posted April 13, 2023
POP ART
bean tin
kitsch bin
NOTE:A footle is a two line ,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and not necessarily in rhyme).
FOOTLES is a 'hybrid' innovative sequenced variation has
developed over the years (since 2009)alongside the original definition
Cesar Balaccini
known by is first name usually
Visual sculpture a little kitsch
disturbing selfportraits if you wish
On Hollywood Boulevard
Grohman’s Chinese theater, The Walk Of Fame
Awestruck, frantic crowds tromp down the street
A swirl of accents divulge from whence they came
Myth and stark truth clash but rarely meet
A boulevard of tinsel, tourist mecca anointed
Foreign visitors now the sole true attraction
All a hyped-up charade, but no disappointment
Quiet on the set, lights cameras, action!
Remove tourists, hustlers, the Marilyn Museum
Costumed crusaders and peddlers of kitsch
And Hollywood is now just a mausoleum
To a cinematic history dynamic and rich
Just one district out of L.A.’s forty-two
Multi-ethnic, working class, urban blight
Yet in the hearts of dreamers passing through
It remains the movie land of sheer delight
8/1/22
6th Place
A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Contest
POP ART
bean tin
kitsch bin
NOTE:A footle is a two line ,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and not necessarily in rhyme).A 'hybrid' innovative sequenced variation has
developed over the years (since 2009)alongside the original definition
~ Impressions of A Holiday Visitor from 1901 ~
America's gone and broke my heart
When did X-mas become a shopping cart
What's with the tawdry tinsel, the kitsch
Why replace a holy day with a sales pitch
Once on X-mas stores were closed
In L.A. today 24/7's unopposed
My aunt once went to midnight mass
Now she's got her choice of yoga class
And, oy, the music; vey, the songs
Something sacred sure went wrong
When 'Momma's kissin' Santa's lips'
Next disc up -- 'Mrs. Claus Strips'
So, friends, I'm going back to where I belong
~ Can't miss Midnight Bingo or Mah-Jong
It’s Halloween and Winnie the Witch
flies on her broomstick with O’Bramovitch
mid-flight puss acquires a nasty twitch
both his nostrils flare, he begins to itch
his pitiful me-ow rises to fever pitch
shame cat's aren't fitted with an on off switch!
A Halloween black cat, folk may say is kitsch
poor Bram needs help, Winnie flies to Ipswich
landing at the home of a vet named Mitch
Mitch quickly mashes up some roasted flitch
Bram gobbles it all up without any hitch
he says his twitch and itch were just a glitch
Alas, Bram’s pre-flight meal - a Beluga sandwich
was the tasty snack which gave Bram a stitch
Mitch declares that cat caviar is far far too rich
so this Halloween treat Win will now have to ditch
Bram’s irate, caterwauling that Winnie’s a snitch
hissing all the flight back to their home in Bloxwich
Halloween Monorhyme Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger
10/26/21
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