Famous Lisa Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Lisa poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous lisa poems. These examples illustrate what a famous lisa poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Gregory, Rg
...hing
let christ stay a product of the time before the fall
(da vinci had a darkness different from what’s taught)
mona lisa (amon-isis) – enigmatic smile and code
for male and female balance – offensive to the powers
that ran the bible their way (hoodwinked future ages)
turned the bright sun black to mask the path they strode
wrapped their ascetic bloodstreams in the holy pages
before which (even today) the congregation cowers
da vinci was an artist scientist (probably a ne...Read more of this...
by
Zaran, Lisa
...lways tries to crush me with
its future.
Originally published in Literati Magazine, Winter 2005.
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by
Browning, Robert
...s, and whifts of song, --
Flower o' the broom,
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
Flower o' the quince,
I let Lisa go, and what good in life since?
Flower o' the thyme--and so on. Round they went.
Scarce had they turned the corner when a titter
Like the skipping of rabbits by moonlight,--three slim shapes,
And a face that looked up . . . zooks, sir, flesh and blood,
That's all I'm made of! Into shreds it went,
Curtain and counterpane and co...Read more of this...
by
Hikmet, Nazim
...n executed in the bloody 1927 crackdown on
Shanghai radicals after returning to China via Paris in 1924, when the
Mona Lisa did in fact disappear from the Louvre. The two friends were
reunited in Vienna in 1951 and traveled to Peking together in 1952.
Translated into Chinese, this poem was later burned-along with Hsiao's
works- in the Cultural Revolution....Read more of this...
by
Zaran, Lisa
...o thin air, where no arms
outstretch to catch her.
Originally published in Magaera, Spring 2005.
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by
Zaran, Lisa
...
with new life. Go on.
Wait.
Hold on.
Originally published by Dicey Brown, Winter 2006
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by
Zaran, Lisa
...hour's
worth of browsing at a lifetime of your work.
Father, are you crying?
Stop that sound.
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by
Wilde, Oscar
...o'er the scroll of human woes,
Or Titian's little maiden on the stair
White as her own sweet lily and as tall,
Or Mona Lisa smiling through her hair, -
Ah! somehow life is bigger after all
Than any painted angel, could we see
The God that is within us! The old Greek serenity
Which curbs the passion of that level line
Of marble youths, who with untroubled eyes
And chastened limbs ride round Athena's shrine
And mirror her divine economies,
And balanced symmetry of what in man...Read more of this...
by
Zaran, Lisa
...y heart never tried
to commit suicide before.
Originally published in Literati Magazine, Winter 2005
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by
Zaran, Lisa
...er
and your heart gardens, rupturing red.
Originally Published in Lily, Volume 1, Issue 8, July 2004
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by
Zaran, Lisa
...e wrong
that some days i have a tough time
believing.
and in each chamber of my heart
i pray.
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by
Sandburg, Carl
...ight
for a long soft kiss
and lost the half-way lips?
who picked a red lamp in a mist?
Who saw the night
fold its Mona Lisa hands
and sit half-smiling, half-sad,
nothing at all,
and everything,
all the world ?
Who saw the night
let down its hair
and shake its bare shoulders
and blow out the candles of the moon,
whispering, snickering,
cutting off the snicker .. and sobbing ..
out of pillow-wet kisses and tears?
Is the night woven of anything else
than the s...Read more of this...
by
Zaran, Lisa
...
even as the wind tries to humiliate her
it fails because
she's in love
and only she would die for it
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by
Zaran, Lisa
...filling with air, his thoughts ballooning.
Originally published in The Rose & Thorn, Summer 2004.
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by
Zaran, Lisa
...s and weep.
My daughter, O my daughter.
Originally Published in The 2River View, 10.1, 2005
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by
Zaran, Lisa
...ghost of your voice,
haunting this empty valley.
Originally published in 2River View 10.1, 2005
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by
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...There is no woman living who draws breath
So sad as I, though all things sadden her.
There is not one upon life's weariest way
Who is weary as I am weary of all but death.
Toward whom I look as looks the sunflower
All day with all his whole soul toward the sun;
While in the sun's sight I make moan all day,
And all night on my sleepless maide...Read more of this...
by
Zaran, Lisa
...to. The strength
I borrow. You are the red sun
rising over the mountain.
You are the mountain.
© 2002 Lisa M. Zaran
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