I know that Mona Lisa smile
one corner up the other still
unsure deciding if it will
let joy sing out or wait awhile
savor the moment to beguile
time but when the corners begin
to slide apart and discipline
succumbs to delight well you’ll see
it’s less mysterious merely
DaVinci’s prelude to a grin
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I decided to continue on after a year, because this document had become a treasured reflective spot in my life. There are some changes in "Year 2," expanding options for my weekly poem beyond sonnet to add some other forms-- rondeau or triolet, villanelle. I added the decima in late January 2010, and the pantoum in August. Definitions of each form appear below. I continue to post a photo daily, but may post several pictures taken on one day over the course of a week if I have an interesting series. I may even post an old photo if I'm writing about something I'm thinking back to. I'll continue to have fun with this project; I hope you will too. For Year 3 I tried including other people in the self-portraits that accompany my poems, adding "Musical Sundays" to post mp3s of my music, but these petered out in a few months. This is simply a place for my daily thoughts & photos, and weekly poems in the forms I love. Onward...!
Love the playful tone of the poem.
slpmartin
October 4, 2013 at 12:54 pm
Thanks. Do you think anyone has ever done a caricature of a grinning Mona Lisa?
mairmusic
October 4, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Wonderful!
“Prelude to a grin” I love that. Could do something with that. A mystery story, perhaps.
:-) Always enjoy your poetry, Marilynn.
Jamie Dedes
October 4, 2013 at 7:51 pm
Thanks, Jamie. I actually spent the whole week wrestling with a pantoum for your “Poets for Peace” page, but I just had to give up as it was sounding too forced. Maybe I’ll link an older poem if that’s OK. I do want to be part of your statement.
mairmusic
October 5, 2013 at 9:52 am
Thank you! I appreciate that. Next year we’ll link the event to 100,000 poets for peace, which actually includes musicians, film makers, artists and so on … :-) Take your time. I probably won’t have a wrap up finished until Thursday.
Jamie Dedes
October 5, 2013 at 10:15 am
loved it!
Sharmishtha Basu
October 7, 2013 at 12:22 am
Thanks, Sharmishtha!
mairmusic
October 7, 2013 at 1:49 pm