Leonardo da Vinci, Italian
“Huh? No, She’s My Twin Sister. I’m the Mona Lindsay. But I Get That a Lot,” Between 1503-1506
Oil on poplar panel
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/// Leonardo’s sfumato glaze style,
and the mystery of Lisa’s smile,
(plus its theft from the Louvre),
make her first of his oeuvre.
Mona Lisa will always beguile.
/// Enigmatic. Did she keep her vows?
Does that grin hint she liked to carouse?
Expert brains deconstruct
why this girl over-plucked
to the point where she doesn’t have brows.
/// She sits down in a three-quarters pose,
and we wonder just where her gaze goes.
Doesn’t look in our eyes,
does she smile in surprise
at some secret that only SHE knows?
/// The rich merchant of Florence she’d wed
whose wealth selling silk went to her head.
Did this cause her sly simper?
The true answer is simpler:
Silk sheets slide her spouse out of their bed.
/// Title “Mona” is short for “Madonna.”
Does her smirk prove she’s near to nirvana?
There are people who swear
they see smoke in the air
and her smile shows she took marijuana.