A pastiche for the Imaginary Garden

Over at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kerry asked us to write a pastiche poem, and provided us with the following definition:

pastiche [pa-steesh, pah-]

noun

1. a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.

2. an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc. taken from different sources; hodgepodge.

I, of course, translated that to mean an incongruous hodgepodge, what else?

Kay Davies photo, December, 2012

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what does it take to make such trees?

imagination, greens and cheese;

thought and planning, then more thought,

before we’d see what thought had wrought

  

a cheese ball’s what I planned at first

but, having neither ham nor wurst,

I thought I’d be a bit creative:

to shape a tree — one that is native

to BC’s coast where I was born (early one December morn)

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The most incongruous part of the whole project is that I dreamt, even for one moment, that this looks like a tree, Douglas Fir or otherwise.
Then again, there's the part wherein I imagine any of my friends will want to dip a cracker into the above mixture this evening, then voluntarily eat it.
Sigh.