The Smile of Gioconda

[JTParreira]

The smile of Gioconda to decorate
the museum
nobody will mold it again
the bureaucratic smile
of Gioconda
is a door behind which
does not have nothing
soul? landscapes? the silence
a navel of the soul
to smile for within.

J.T.Parreira

[aashishameya]

good poem, though didn't get it fully, but intuetively like it...

[amanda_isabel]

provides as much mystery as the painting itself does. :)

[motherhubbard]

I had to get out the dictionary and look on the internet, but I liked it even though it's above me

[Pendragon]

I confess I had to go google up that reference,

ah such enigmatic smile
from lovely face beguiling—
and such cryptic clues veiled
within a poetic sketch unseen.
Da Vinci himself might be proud,
of such noble verbal chicanery…
as ‘tis said he left cryptograms behind,
for progeny to consider and get the picture

Pendragon
© 7/31/07