The embalmed Lady still smiling under the Glass Pyramid...
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : XLIII– the Embalmed Mona Lisa in the Glass Pyramid
If you pull a long stymied face
Make certain you peel eyes that do not stray
Or else the faces you make will make-up put out-of-place
Yet the legions who march past portrait make for dire prey
If you keep pulling that mock long-pulled enigmatic face
Not even oil on poplar buttressed by beech oak sycamore or maple
Nor butterfly braces lock Mona Lisa’s back-warping brace
Sfumato style phase out smile eyelashes eyebrows from wood panel
If you must pull that long neither nor face
Two faces fused in one while in the family way
Dumbfounded tourists be trampled under divisive gaze
Did not Leonardo cross-eyed dab paint in reverie gay
If you then insist on pulling a long-painted face
Own mocking glances at François 1er’s La Gioconda, nay
Count yourself among millions Lady Gherardini’s to praise
Think of the billions it takes to care for her image and so pay
Yet if you then keep pulling that long-amused face
Watching myriad eyes searching the reasons for your precious sway
Pied-Piper armies come trampling trapped in a momentary craze
The pent-up pilgrims in your glass sanctum-sanctorum catharsis obey
"NO COMMENT" - should be an appropriate response to your comment, but I feel (whilst I am grateful for your steadfast remarks ever since I started posting some samples of my work) I should add here the "reasons" (not that there need be any) why it would be better merely to say nothing at all over one another's efforts. The statistics of "hits" would prove to be sufficient comment. However….
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1. "I also believe that if a poem is not understood by the reader (my interpolation: this's the case here), it is not a very good poem." Ronald Hull, 05/25/2018.
2. " Here's advice I gave elsewhere about art: "Don't be intimidated. If you don't like it, it's bad. If you like it, it's good. Buy it." Bruce Price, "The Plight of Poetry", 2005-11. ( Note: "art", not "Art")
3. " …But I think all the great poetry over the centuries was accessible and even fun." Bruce Price, Idem.
The references are there to be double-checked, if you think I'm quoting out of context. When one makes comments such as the above quotations - not to mention another wise-guy's who thinks Einstein appointed him as his spokesman - there is much to worry about, indeed! Don't you agree, Ron?
While I can't fathom exactly what you are writing about, I agree that I should comment anyway because it appears no one else wants to for some reason. Why they are so reluctant, I don't know.
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(continued) Check other sites, if you will.
1. "I also believe that if a poem is not understood by the reader (my interpolation: this's the case here), it is not a very good poem." Ronald Hull, 05/25/2018.
2. " Here's advice I gave elsewhere about art: "Don't be intimidated. If you don't like it, it's bad. If you like it, it's good. Buy it." Bruce Price, "The Plight of Poetry", 2005-11. ( Note: "art", not "Art")
3. " …But I think all the great poetry over the centuries was accessible and even fun." Bruce Price, Idem.
The references are there to be double-checked, if you think I'm quoting out of context. When one makes comments such as the above quotations - not to mention another wise-guy's who thinks Einstein appointed him as his spokesman - there is much to worry about, indeed! Don't you agree, Ron?
Ron