Mona Lisa Eyes - Sway B-side

I've got mona lisa eyes
I can stare through all your lies
Maybe they will come tomorrow (x3)
But it's only another day away
Look down on everything in sight
Look down on everything and say goodbye
And it's only another day away
I've got mona lisa eyes (x3)
And it's only another day away
Day away...

song performed by Ocean Colour Scene
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Enigma

Forever present
A symbol of sacrifice
The bearer of violence
Ah! yet
Like a mona lisa
Her smile still remains
frozen for eternity

poem by Humna Hamid
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Mona Lisa

when I first saw her....I wasd a little child...I said mother...was she bearing me...in her...then as I grew up...she became my beloved...how many beloveds..she might have seen that, , , , she tickled...smiled..and laughed...Oh....mona Lisa...mpna lisa...you have broken my heart....

poem by Metin Sahin
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Morning Sun

THE MORNING SUN COMES THRU MY WINDOW
ALL NIGHT LONG I HAVE BEEN WAITING
WE WHO ARE CONSTANTLY MOVING
LEAVING PART OF US BEHIND
SHE MOVES ACROSS THE ROOM WITH EASY GRACE
MONA LISA SMILES UP ON HER FACE
I WHO AM COMPLETELY MESMERIZED
BY THE SUNLIGHT IN HER EYES
MORNING SUN COMES THRU MY WINDOWS
ALL NIGHT LONG I HAVE BEEN WAITING
WE WHO ARE CONSTANTLY MOVING
LEAVING PART OF US BEHIND
MOVES ACROSS THE ROOM WITH EASY GRACE
MONA LISA SMILES UP ON HER FACE
I WHO AM COMPLETELY MESMERIZED
BY THE SUNLIGHT IN HER EYES
AND THE MORNING SUN COMES THRU MY WINDOW
ALL NIGHT LONG I HAVE BEEN WAITING
WE WHO ARE CONSTANTLY MOVING
LEAVING PART OF US BEHIND

song performed by Bad Company
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Pictures Of Pain

How does it feel
Don't know if I could ever do it
Can't keep my fingers still
I fell once you didn't see it
Face on the ground I'm still
Pray this is not forever
She's like a sacred stone
I'll climb high until I see it
And then I'll let you know about me
How does it feel
Cause lifes lifes not the same
I've got your photograph
It kills me every day
Just want to talk about it
Think about it will you listen
You're like the Mona Lisa I can't find
I love the way you look at me
As I surround myself with
Pictures of Pain
How does it feel

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song performed by Feeder
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Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

quote by Sol LeWitt
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Fakes Are In Demand

Mona Lisa is mere imagery;
Cinema is an imaginary.
So are story, poetry and history.
To make believe is their strategy.

Imitation, replica, duplicates,
And fakes are make belief for the real.
Make belief serves us giving second chance
That life denies us. They’re in demand.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

quote by A. Whitney Griswold
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Art Encompassed

Michelangelo carved poetry
into purest marble
painted it across ceiling
of adorned Sistine Chapel.

Leonardo Da Vinci
cunningly imprisoned it
within magnetic eyes
of portrait Mona Lisa.

Vincent Van Gogh ground pigment
mixed fresco artistic paint
then splashed poetry upon heaven’s
eternal Starry Starry Night.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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HER SMILE (Mona lisa)

Her beauty not Japanese
Or German
Not either English
Nor Irish
Her beauty not consumed in bollywood
Or either tabbed in hollywood
The beauty pure hidden in her soul
Not words what could bear
Nor either color can paint
But only I can say
OH her smile's talk
Took my heart
Eyes twisted
Dark of night
To dawn of mona lisa.

poem by Sallam Yassin
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Mona Lisa Who Carries Our Smile

why did mona lisa
become famous?
it's because she
smiles for us

a smile that has
come out
of our system
so real, so smooth
an innocent smile wrung
from all our heart's

leonardo, well leonardo
his colours carry our nerves
that pull the eventual smile
he has seized the moment
and portrayed what is in us in
the most eloquent fashion

so true to the heart

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poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Little Mona Lisa Smiles (for Ruthie)

We were always together
as much as weather

was
weather.

'Like two peas
in a pod...by God! '

as the man said
when he saw us

& laughed
his head off.

We only smiled
with little Mona Lisa smiles

seeing no one
but each other

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poem by Dónall Dempsey
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Valentine 2009

If I could paint a masterpiece
In portrait show my lady’s grace
As da Vinci in his finest hour
Attained in Mona Lisa’s face

If I could write a sonnet grand
In poem show my lady’s soul
That to the eyes of all who read
Rapturous tears would freely flow

If I could achieve these shining feats
Though great, sufficient would not be
To reveal the love that’s in my heart
Or impart my lady’s worth to me

I love you Babe

© C R Clark 2/09/2009

poem by C.R. Clark
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Not a Human

There you were in front of me
Perched on your chair like a queen
Mysterious behind dark shades
A perfect Mona Lisa smile
I would paint you if I could
Knowing it would be a lie
Even a photo would not capture
What I see in you and feel inside
Then there was that moment
When I was walking past you
And you lifted up your sunglasses
Revealing stunning aqua blue eyes
They were like lasers pointed at me
Then I knew you were not of this earth
Not a mere mortal, not a human like me

poem by Paul H Nelson
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The art of the muse

The art of the muse
~
Full figured and strong
open mind and heart
she is my Mona Lisa
a will to be counted
a voice not afraid to speak
kind and gentle in nature
still not to be crossed
she is beautiful
a captivating soul
her every essence holds
my thoughts follow
she is a work of art
my muse of words
still yet to be written
she is my life, my future
she is woman
beautiful, strong, desirable
she is perfection, passion

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poem by Matthew Holloway
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An Ode to Desire

If prince charming
Had seen your face,
Etched in fine carved ebony,
Sleeping beauty would still
Be sleeping.

Had he chanced upon the beauty
Of your smile,
Caught the flash of your
White teeth,
Looked into your big brown eyes,
He would have gotten lost
In the wonder of them
Never finding his way to the ball
And Cinderella would still be
Scrubbing floors barefoot.

If Leonardo had seen you first,
Mona Lisa would be wearing
A different smile

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poem by Dorothy Holmes
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Cheshire Smile

(with apologies to Leonardo da Vinci)

What is it with the Cheshire Cat
and that confounding smile
That so beguiled me long ago as a child
Unlike Mona Lisa's, it remains a mystery
Between the Cheshire Cat
And now the grown-up me

What is it about that maddening
maddening! smile
After all these years
After all this time...

© 2009 Sonya Florentino

(the Cheshire Cat is a character in Lewis Carroll's book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ' a book that has made a lasting impact on me more than any other book read as a child)

poem by Sonya Florentino
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I'll wait for you in Paris

I'll wait for you in Paris
Under the mouth of the Eiffel tower
I'll wait under Van Gough's starry sky
I'll wait by the Mona Lisa's smile
I'll wait by the glitzy lights of the arms of the Moulin rouge
Here I'll always be waiting for you
I'll wait by the great doors of Notre Dame
Under the famous rose glass window
I'll wait for you by the frown of Arc de Triomphe
Standing above the lonely bones of the Unknown Soldier
I'll always wait for you
In this city where I have never died
I'll always wait for you
Till you are here by my side

poem by Guinevere Eveleigh
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The peddler and the red scarf

In the sweepy narrow dusty road you sell candy
and I watch your beauty from afar.
I am scared of the street urchins.
My dear why don't you cover your face with a scarf.
Your laugh in a sweet manner is better than the candy.
I too a wanderer goes with the wind
and I sing few oldies on the street
with my old tambourine.
Hey! my black Mona Lisa if you don't shift
I'll promise you to bring a scarf tomorrow.
Yes, a red scarf my deceased poor mom's gift.

To the poetess Rebecca.Mbaye & Denis.Joe my poet friend who encourage me all the time.

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Perfect Moment

Sunset glow from a hill
Let it flow take your fill
Such a perfect moment
Mona lisa smile
One such perfect moment
Makes it all worthwhile
Autumn night crystal clear
Mystic night seems so near
Such a perfect moment
Nothin you can say
One such perfect moment
Gets you through the day
Mountain sheen, ocean shine
Miocene valentine
One such perfect moment
Never twice th same
Such a perfect moment
Will keep you in th game

song performed by Van Morrison
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