A pastiche, created in PRISMA, of a painting of my own of Venice
PASTICHE POETRY
Following on from my opening outline of Pastiche Poetry (see my blog yesterday titled ‘Pastiche Poetry’ ), here are some of my own efforts (you may call them concoctions or confections if you’d rather) which I have based on the well-known opening lines of six different poets . . .
‘Home Thoughts, From Abroad’, Robert Browning …
Oh to be in England
Now that April’s there;
Whate’er the goddamn weather
It’s March I just can’t bear.
‘If’, Rudyard Kipling …
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
Then you’re a very special person
And I’m another bloody cockatoo.
‘This be The verse’, Philip Larkin …
They tuck you up your mum and dad,
Make sure you go to sleep,
And then they get the cards out
While from you there’s not a peep.
‘Casablanca’, Felicia Dorothea Hemans …
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled.
He couldn’t help but think ‘By heck!
Those clods left me for dead.’
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’, William Wordsworth …
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vale and hill,
When all at once I saw a shroud,
It made my very heart standstill.
‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, W.B.Yeats …
I will arise and go now
And go to Innisfree;
I need to meet my muse there,
Commune with Calliope.
Roland's Ragbag 
Your pastiche poems brought sighs, smiles, and giggles! 🙂 😀
Wonderful job, Roland!
And your painting…Oh my! The lines, shapes and colors capture me in and keep me!
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Thank you for your appreciative comment, Carolyn.
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Great fun Roland, and as Carolyn says stunning picture. PLUS, I never knew who wrote ‘the boy stood on thee burning deck’ Dad used to whisper a pastiche involving letting off crackers and loosing one’s ability to father children, when Mum was in the kitchen.
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Thanks Nigel. Something about ‘his trousers round his neck’ is the one I half-remember.
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Brilliant takes on the poems and I love the painting / picture Roland.
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Thank you. Much appreciated, Davy.
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Lots of smiles and admiration; I like what you do with the paintings, too
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Good of you to say so. Thank you, Derrick.
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You are pretty good at this, aren’t you Roland? 😊 . I think I will abstain for now, need loads of practice. Your abstract interpretation of Venice is great.
miriam
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No problem. Thanks for responding, Miriam.
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