Is this the face
That fascinated
A zillion senses ?
Thrilled a trillion
Thoughts ?
Baffled a billion
Brains ?
Mused a million minds ?
And a thousand times told
Lovelier and loveliest !
You are the ever cherished –
Season of ART,
The gift of Renaissance painting;
The very verve
Of priceless charm !
Serendipity was with you to be alive,
In such an age of rebirth and revival;
And you are matchless and peerless,
To be painted and scratched
By the amorously digging brush
Of venerable, veteran and versatile –
V ‘I’ N C ‘I’
Though you took years
To be on the energetic canvas;
Your enigmatic exposure is of merry ?
Or, melancholy ? . . Smiley ? Or, sadly ?
V ’I’ N C ’I’ only knows !
I always wonder
At the absence of brows and
Lashes on your flawless face
Was it a fashion of the time ?
Vinci forget to put ? Or, Time told him
To stop ?
Yet, you are stunningly immortal
And stirringly heart throbbing !
Many a time, I watched
And
Dreamt, many a time
I have been full
In passion and rebellion
Of your heavenly looks and existence,
And I longed to see your face
In the living girls of NOW.
But,
I have eyes
White dead
And
Black dead
Always !
Perhaps,
Now my beloved dead woman,
‘I’ painted timeless Poetry,
My girl of every centuries,
My darling Mona Lisa is reading this poem
From the wall of Louvre !
Yes, Renaissance melancholy
And despair dives from her face
Into my turbulent musks
And divine Cosmic Yogas
To mutually burn with ‘I’, forever,
For double Illumination,
Divine
‘Eternalness’ !
~ Sanju Clement
Kerala, India
A nice poem on Mona Lisa!
The very word ‘painting’ reminds one of Mona Lisa, the face coming before our mind’s eyes, bringing an element of wonder!
The emotions reflected are at the same time many and varied, comtributing to the enigmatic nature of the exposure!
That probably may be the reason why we are very much attracted to that ever tantalizing face!