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Da Vinci Poems - Poems about Da Vinci

Icarus
'Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return,' wrote Mr. da Vinci (1452 – 1519). In school I did learn the plane truth, and for your information, it's a collection of spare parts flying in close formation. And was it not Icarus in his day who,...

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Categories: da vinci, bird, flying, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
MONA LISA : Leonardo da Vinci : 1503
enigmatically enlightened embodied essence of o__live imperceptible darkly moon-fragrant purity a__live still knowingness of rippled ...

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Categories: da vinci, allegory, allusion, art, color,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member 1304 Female Head La Scapigliata C1508 - Leonardo Da Vinci Painting
There’s a story untold, A mystery to unfold. Even in her unfinished state, Her beauty will forever captivate. Da Vinci’s hand has started the task, Her delicate face, unable to mask. His brush has brought her to life, Serene and peaceful devoid of strife. ...

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Categories: da vinci, mystery,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member DRAWINGISTA da vinci michelangelo
DRAWINGISTA da vinci michelangelo the  triumphal    arch expressing simp!icity   ready-to-hand graphite encased   pen    ink     chalk charcoal  shaded  & crosshatched imparted by    tender       touch...

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Categories: da vinci, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member SFUMISTA da vinci
SFUMISTA Evaporating   mist clears dark   to light imperceptibly blended   en relief in soft contouds ephemereal aswww   smoke...

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Categories: da vinci, art,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member More Perfect Than a Da Vinci
When all the poetic themes have been written and all the images created with all their shades and shadowed renderings Would a vision sustain beauty in our souls? Where the universe in the mind becomes aware of our thoughts when a naturally painted picture is seen filled with wisps of elegant light drifting through pliable limbs to form silhouettes without movement And yet, cascades...

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Categories: da vinci, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Instructions To Da Vinci
If she does not look pretty you can forget your pay Leonardo watched the patron keenly that day She had better not look corpulent, make her look thin. da Vinci knew now what a pickle he was in....

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Categories: da vinci, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Da Vinci Ponders La Scapiglata
I like to think of Leonardo da Vinci Staring at his unfinished painting visualizing butterflies for they represent transformation depicting her as disheveled, thus more human it was bold of da Vinci to select a woman as his subject suggesting there is more to femininity than most men realize what would he have added if he had finished? would it be the...

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Categories: da vinci, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Sky
I always wonder As my eyes wander Towards the sky At the clouds up high Such an amazing view As if just painted by hue Such great wonders Mixed with different colours Freshly painted Like Da Vinci once created Such a scenic view to see As if you are finally free From the captivity Living a carefree life of liberty...

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Categories: da vinci, beautiful, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Letter To Leonardo Da Vinci
You were the Renaissance man who Had a wonderful romance with life You shattered the ordinary matrix and Produced extraordinary results! You painted the “Mona Lisa” and overwhelmed The inhabitants of this planet with sketches of the future! Even though your parents never married each other You still exposed the beauty of your talent to your generation and In doing this, you showed...

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Categories: da vinci, art, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Da Vinci
Backward writing an art of Leonardo many wonder why this was so He wrote with his left hand thus keeping ink off his fingers,you understand...

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Categories: da vinci, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member The Leonardo 500
Leonardo more than a Renaissance man artist? yes but - sculptor? yes but - musician? yes but - anatomist? yes but - cartographer? yes but - scientist? yes but - engineer? yes but - inventor? yes but - no boundaries, no demarcations with holistic views of arts and sciences Leonardo - the ultimate polymath But why and how? illegitimacy prevented...

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Categories: da vinci, art, imagination, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Da Vinci Selfie
The master artist polymath Leonardo the self-portrait to him,a no-no The search goes on for us to see & fame awaits the finder of his selfie...

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Categories: da vinci, art, people, word play,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Da Vinci and Monet Memoires
From the time I first gazed upon them I have loved the paintings of Monet… love the impression of his subjects…love his colors…love the way they interplay. I’ve also loved the paintings of da Vinci…though a completely different style… I love the details of his Mona Lisa…love her colors…love her smile. I think memory is a lot like these...

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Categories: da vinci, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Leonardo Da Vinci Poems, Epigrams and Quotes
LEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the first six epigrams pertain to the current American election crisis … Nothing enables authority like silence.—Leonardo da Vinci, translation by Michael R. Burch The greatest deceptions spring from men’s own opinions.—Leonardo da...

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Categories: da vinci, art, eulogy, nature, poems,
Form: Epigram

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