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Modern Madonna

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

0 posted 2001-04-02 10:57 PM

I long for the skill of an artist,
To paint like the great Raphael.
To show as would Michelangelo,
A beauty that words cannot tell.

I watch as she bends o'er her baby,
With a love that is out of this world,
For a child more dependent and helpless,
Than when in her womb it was curled.

She could have posed for "The Madonna,"
Her profile as pure as a saint.
The utter devotion she has to this child,
Not even a genius could paint.

But I must strive with inadequate words,
To picture this mother and child;
Show beauty so sweet and ethereal,
The world like I am, is beguiled.

Can a love such as this, be captured
in a painting or words written down?
This purest passion ever created,
Is what makes the world go around.

By Joyce 01/20/2001

[This message has been edited by Joyce Johnson (edited 04-03-2001).]

kcsgrandma
Senior Member

since 2000-09-24

Posts 1522
Presque Isle, ME

1 posted 2001-04-02 11:04 PM

Joyce, I think your words express the devotion of mother to child very beautifully. Perhaps for a portrait such as this, poetry is a better medium, for it allows the imagination to capture what a brush never could.

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

2 posted 2001-04-02 11:43 PM

Just a beautiful poem Joyce. If only all mothers were so devoted!

Betty Lou Hebert

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