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Smile Of Whimsy And Guile
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Smile Of Whimsy And Guile |
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Ivy Rose Senior Member
since 2001-12-29
Posts 1300MA, USA |
Your face has been a maze. Was there a hidden devotion inside? A hidden sigh? Were you smiling, back then? And, why? Was the beauty of your day found upon your singular face? Was Leonardo charmed by your womanly ways? Were you a captive to the dark side of him? Was your smile just a secret held in the heart of his whim? Perhaps, your Mona Lisa grin was nothing more than the artist's portrait of himself. Was that why you smiled within? Could your face have been the biographical face of his sin? Your smile was somber and slight. Was it of a hidden need? A hidden tease? Or, a hidden deed? Was it dangerous and scheming? The mystery lies in the night of Leonardo's own dark, dreaming. Your face was this mysterious thing to be handed down through the ages, to dangle on the broken wing of some gallery's whimsy and guile. Where we could all be drowned in, held captive by, that Mona Lisa smile. |
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Michelle_loves_Mike
since 2003-12-20
Posts 1189Pennsylvania |
Lotta people over the years have asked about that smile,,,guess the answers are to it lie in our own minds Michelle I wish all could find the true happiness I have found,,in the eyes of Mike |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
IvyRose~ Now THIS is a perspective I hadn't before considered - 'Perhaps, your Mona Lisa grin was nothing more than the artist's portrait of himself.' - oh my ... so ponderous~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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EvocativeVerse2 Senior Member
since 2003-09-10
Posts 1279 |
Bravo! Great piece and you pose a lot of questions. I heard once that it took Leonardo 10 years to paint that picture. I don't know if it was true or not...but if it is that may account for the reason why the smile seems odd. Anyway love the poem. Remember, if you're not part of the future, you're history! |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Very good. I just recently finished reading "The DaVinci Code." This immediately brought the book back to me.  |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
Perhaps, your Mona Lisa grin was nothing more than the artist's portrait of himself. very good write, but this part is a very controversial part of the painting as they actually believe it was Di Vinci himself posing for that painting. Good one |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Ivy Rose - mysterious indeed... BC |
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Grover Senior Member
since 2004-01-27
Posts 1967London, ON, Canada |
Gets one to thinking! Grover. |
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Kie Member
since 2004-02-01
Posts 77USA |
Your poem was truly unique. I loved the theory regarding her smile. When I began reading the beginning of your poem, the way you curbed into the second line, the break thru me temporarily. I read it again and by the 2nd stanza I was taken in. As I continued to read the flow was in harmony and I loved it! Kie |
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Mistletoe Angel
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
  (smiles) It will always be a mystery to me what the smile is directed to and if it is out of courtesy or suspicion, sweet friend, either way it is a classic work of art, God Bless You, this is most beautifully thought-provoking, yay, I'm so happy you're back, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Ivy, thank you for sharing!  May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton "You'll find something that's enough to keep you |
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