Short Pastiche Poems

ambivalent pastiche
in Benday
dots...

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My sweet Lena
lies here
with her pastiche....

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Midst
hedgerows
turning green-
nature's pastiche
slowly awakens from winter sleep....

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Midst
hedgerows
turning green-
nature's pastiche
slowly awakens from winter sleep....

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Midst
hedgerows
turning green-
nature's pastiche
slowly awakens from its winter sleep....

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He
took his
day job home-
on a billboard 
scale

Ekphrasis after The Margin Between by Rosenquist...

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a
forties
pop pastiche-
tomorrow we
die.

Ekphrasis after..... I was a rich man's plaything by Paolozzi...

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soft
   contours
of
   living
      life
geometrics
  beyond
the
  naturalistic
                norm
in
poetic
  peinture
     pastiche...

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Cloudy
Ominous display
Lowering, twisting, threatening.
Bleak, severe?            Gentle showers?
Refreshing, newness, refreshing 
Blue             sky
Sunshine...

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Illusions,symbols of childhood,
coloured filled swathes of painterly
hues.A  private fantasy in slow
motion suspended in space.An
abstracted blur in flashbacks of
yesteryear,caught in a daydream....

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Here in my heart lies a patchwork of scraps 
alongside a love, once whole and beautiful 

Here in my soul pastiche melodies of songs  
that spoke of flower fields and loving you.


...

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a symmetric eclectic
of film,society politic-
portraits defined
in Andy's graphic line
&
Comic book style Roy Lichtenstein
made Pop Art a genre to mine
His usp easy to recognise
no attempt to dress or disguise
ambivalent pastiche shots
in Benday
dots...

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I say to le "grand fromage".
You and your pastiche attachè.
You with all your rakish, cliche.
You think you're so Debonair.
You with another au pair.
You and one more rendezvous.
You again it's déjà vu.
You and another faux pas.
You always with Au revoir.
I say so much "bon voyage....

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Midst
hedgerows
turning green-
nature's pastiche
slowly awakens from winter sleep.

NOTE:The challenge with Ray Stebbing's tetractys form is -that each line is required 'to stand on its own ' & the poem itself  is to express a complete thought,within the narrow compass of 20 syllables....

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PASTICHE
occasional
  startling
vivacity
  &verve
an
existence
  random
switching
  shuttling
about

immensely
 enthusiastic
&
gesticulating
 nsinuous
  nsuperficial
&melancholic

  contemplating
 a suave
astonishing
pastiche
  before
&
despite
either
austere
 feeling
or
modishness...

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For Lack of a Smile

For lack of a smile a trust was lost
For lack of a trust a soldier was lost
For lack of a soldier a general was lost 
For lack of a general a battle was lost
All for the lack of a smile.

A smile costs little but does wonders.
What does your reluctance to smile cost?

Pastiche of “For want of a nail the shoes is lost”...

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buttercup daisy 
   &
 cowslip

swaying pelts 
   of grasses 
bask in Spring 

purple vetch
      ribwort plaintain
lush clover
       in English rain
scalious burnets 
                 protude

hawthorn 
      dense and tough
 sweet scented woodruff
hearts tongue
       divided    frond
circle &stop
   spined point

rambled briar 
sprawl
   prickly &
      wandering tall....

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MATTISE CUT-OUT an Ekphrasis
Colour combinations,yellows &blacks
of every hue,gouache paper,paint,
pins&glue.Cut-out patterns,pasted
pastiche,outlines enssemblage traced,
time after time.Out of the blue nudes
appear,modelled maquettes a last period
coda of the master’s career.
Inspired by Matisse Cut-out book Jazz

Listen to me recite this ekphrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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Beneath the undergrowth deep
Awakening from a winter sleep,
Hedgehogs stir in nocturnal nuzzle,
Uncurl their defensive puzzle;
Shrews,woodmice and voles
Quiver,and quickly desert their holes;
Badgers air the bracken couchette,
Forage for food around their sett;
Hustle,bustle in each earthly niche
To illustrate nature's pastiche
Midst hedgerows of yesteryear,
To preserve,protect and hold dear....

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ELIZABETHAN LOVE PASTICHE

I will pluck  Parmenter from your orchard bower
And taste it’s Ambrose and the scented flower
There we shall pass a brief but blessed hour
While I sup your essence sweet piquant and sour
Lest passing time should look on us to glower
And curse us so no more we may have power
To circumvent the fates and they devour
Our consecrated rapture that they scour

16 July 2019...

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COPLA CUARENTA Y UNO: This Bad Guy World

Engine turns on a principle
Whole physical laws based on it:
E-motion-less

Humans think their plight’s multiple
No one’s asking them not to quit:
Life’s such a mess

Whole planets and solar systems
In white heat blow up as Quasars:
Or Black Holes suck

Would pastiche Primal Soup poems
Paste poets on canvass stars:
The best of luck!

© T. Wignesan - Paris, 2014...

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My mingle-mangle mismash mixed bag of stuff
Is a pastiche, potpourri, patchwork of remnants rough
The accumulation of this junk was not so very tough
Feather dusters, ink wells, rulers, silver links of cuff
Pincushions, a beaver tail, old Spice, smelly snuff
Nails, shoe polish, tape, puffer that does not still puff
Potholders, elf statue, rags to give car a buff
Petrified cinnamon roll, please don’t give me guff....

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Listen to poem:

Please pander to my
Perfectionism by
Pottering your purlesent
Peepers purposely past my
Permanently printed
Phrases of poetic poise

Pulling precious people
Past particular poison 
Pleases.
Pushing perfection points
Purposefully protects from 
Painful perception.

Perhaps a pedantic persuasion?
Perhaps a pen peaking in
Peppery passion or with
Personal poignancy or
Painted pastiche pictures of
Platitude?

Perhaps...

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inspired by contest nature theme

Beneath the undergrowth deep
Awakening from a winter sleep,
Hedgehogs stir in nocturnal nuzzle,
Uncurl their defensive puzzle;
Shrews,woodmice and voles
Quiver,and quickly desert their holes;
Badgers air the bracken couchette,
Forage for food around their sett;
Hustle,bustle in each earthly niche
To illustrate nature's pastiche
Midst hedgerows of yesteryear,
To preserve,protect and hold dear....

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NARRATIVES
in a
  prospective pastiche
this a lingering
   concern
of
deprecating humour
an identifiable
yet
perverse eccentricity
in
   a comic strategy


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived...

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