A pop poem for dVerse – Victoria is hosting this month’s form for all, and we’re looking at pop art. I think you can see what I’ve tried to do here.
| Yellow breakfasts in a yellow kitchen sunshine family smiling laughing sunny-side up reaching for the marmalade reaching for the mustard with smiles as bright as bowls of custard we’re so happy in our family sunshine yellow sunshine happy | Sky blue mornings made for running round the garden playing with water laughing joking water spraying rainbow making summer skies are always cloudless we’re so happy in our family sky blue happy summer smiling |
| Grass green afternoons we’re all sorting our recycling teamwork smiling podding peas and stealing some chopping veggies we’re so healthy so delighted with our garden neat and tidy we’re so happy in our family grass green happy garden grinning | Warm red evenings on the sofa firelight flickering eating pizza watching movies all plugged in to our devices lots of snuggles cosy cuddles we’re so happy in our family warm red happy turn our faces from reality all we need is this nuclear family |
Sarah writes poems 
” I think you can see what I’ve tried to do here.” Nope, I can’t. I see 4 colors quadrants, like the happy elephant pop art : https://society6.com/product/happy-elephant-painting_cards
And I see nauseating, sweet sick wonderful family stuff like we often see of facebook. And when you said, “turn our faces from reality ” — I agreed strongly with you.
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Yes – I was thinking of the Andy Warhol 4 colour screen prints. I was also thinking of those super shiny ads and how unreal they are. You read it perfectly.
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Yay! Smile. Thanks
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Very clever Sarah, I didn’t pick up the Warhol 4 colour screen print connection initially, but now that you point it out it really adds to the enjoyment of the poem. I particularly like “smiles as bright as bowls of custard” and the red verse with it’s “things may not be as they seem” undercurrent.
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There’s a lot of pop happiness here. I like how you formatted the poem in two columns.
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Oh so clever and spot on, Sarah. The superficiality just oozes through. We dream idealism and live reality…but not wanting to be cynical, I hope a lot of the beauty of the colors seeps through.
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Clever format and I really do love what you have done.
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Thank you. I have to say, the formatting was clearer in Word before I pasted it into WordPress.
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Bravo. You absolutely nailed it! So clever and perfect- especially since it tugged just a little at my heartstrings the way ads are designed to do. The manipulation works because some part of is always longing for – what? Safety I think. We are so susceptible, even wiley, jaded, cranky and suspicious as a crone might be.
Your use of color and mirroring was so intelligent and creative. Andy would have liked it too, I bet.
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Oh yes, they know what we want. Some ads are more moving than the average movie these days. Thank you. I’m glad it came off.
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Primary colors for living. Love this, Sarah!
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This took me immediately to that 4-color Marilyn Monroe piece I abhorred … and still do, for that matter. I think Warhol duped a lot of people and had a big laugh at their expense. Your approach was unique and creative.
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Thank you, Beverly. This was a tricky prompt.
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nice format
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Thank you.
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