A Poetic Tour of Paul McCartney's Paintings


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Verena's Haiku Guide

Verena Gudelius

Ancient Connections
Celtic ancestors
Motives for Paul's paintings
How did they really live?

Royal Sequence
Queen Elizabeth
Bad joke plus first cigarette
Result: greener Queen

Scratch I
locked up in prison
panic, fear create blackness
Witness is a scratch

David Bowie Spewing
David's bad habit
Eating too much for supper
Disgusting spewing

Unspoken Words
Relation disturbed
No connection possible
Communication?

Egypt Station
An Egypt station
A symbol for death and life
Clown going nowhere

Tara's Plastic Skirt
Coloured rubbish bag
Paul forgot to throw it away
Now a part of art

Shark on Georgica and Beach Towels
Blue sea, sunny day
Why staying on the towel?
Shark on Georgica

Mr. Magritte's Ruler
Favorite colours
Yellow and blue plus the ruler
Admire Magritte


PMC in the Sun and Garden

Nadine Buderath

On a Beach Towel
Listening to the Rolling Stones
Enjoying the sun
Andy in the garden
Seeming to have seen a ghost
Perhaps it was Paul?


Brains on Fire

Daniel Scheuermann

J. Lennon's head is
spreading on the canvas, is
art again, you see


Large Yellow Face

Ralf Siewer

A large yellow face
Staring at you; does he
Want to ask something?

Large Yellow Face

Kathrin Latsch

You large yellow face
What's going on in your mind
Need help? May I help?


The Kiss

Dennis Röder

Happiness happening
Time stops - everlasting moment
Wet snogging passion


Royal Trilogy

Dennis Röder

Face destroyed by pain
The muscles make the mask mad
Hey, Queen! Only joking!


Alexandra's Tour

Alexandra Possy Berry Quenum

Large Yellow Face
Everything is quiet
Innocence is here
Someone's behind
The yellow face
Is it a woman
Is it a spirit
Nobody knows
But a blissful feeling

Black Singer; Blue Tooth; C Minor; Bald Head
In the beginning
Nothing
Just a lot of colours
Mixed like a child would do
Then you ask yourself why?
Why are those colours here?
You back up,
And you see it

Four faces looking at you
Full of colours
Full of letters
Full of feelings.
Then you realize
Faces are like that
Only simple features
That you sometimes overlook

Three Blue Faces in Red Sky
Three people,
Only two eyes
Looking at you,
With an overwhelming
And penetrating look.
This face
Is the one in the middle
The two others are not so disturbing
They just are.

But "SHE"
She has a wonderful look
About life and its meaning
She looks through you
And sees everything.
You stay here
Looking at her
Fascinated, impressed.
She is so serene
Understanding everything
OH,
If only you could be like her...


John's Room

Florian Gelling

John's room is glowing
heads and heads hanging on walls
people standing round
paintings of paintings
red yellow green brown blue white
but where is John here?


Giving a Title

Florian Gelling

Colours on Canvas
Yet sense seems to be missing
So let us fill in
Two eyes and a mouth
Now I can give it a name
Big mountain face, nice


Big Mountain Face

Kathrin Latsch

The big mountain face
Looks down on me with brown eyes
Don't like the colour.
I prefer Lucy in the Sky
with her kaleidoscope eye.


PMC Morrissonesque

(in the style of James Douglas Morrisson;
inspired by the painting "Egypt Station")

Dietrich Menn

Take the Sangetarian railroad to the night
Reach the island of your fears by the ancient train
Use the ancient train
The train to a darker pain
Come on leave your little station of life
Use the goat
Put your eyes on the tracks
And use the ancient train
Pay a visit to your Egyptian brothers
And promise them to kill them
Donīt fear the dog
Heīs small and heīs gonna eat them all
The flowers, the clouds, the sun
Touch the dog and run to the side of the tracks
Where the flowers grow
Wake up! The train is coming.


Ode to Egyptian Farmer

Ulrike Friedrich from Swabia

An animal the farmer bought today,
I can see it is a beautiful goat.
Oh, surely it was very expensive;
no price too high for the noble creature.
But poor farmer beware of the fast trains,
do not tie your goat on the last waggon!
Don't you know the song of the Swabian
who did just the same once upon the time.
Lost not only his goat but also his temper,
you would never do such a foolish thing?
Take your wonderful goat, go home on foot,
by the way, what do you need the goat for?
"That is the dinner for my family!"
Poor goat you are going to be eaten!