I thank you to no limit.

The ants are people right? As always a wealth of meaning with a poverty of words how d'ya do it trucker? Did u get my email?

The first stanza is almost a giveaway. Trim it. please? Otherwise, BRRRRRILLIANT!

We're goint ot the Milwaukee art museum today. Degas is in town. What a perfect primer. Thanks. Game , set, match.

You are asking whether this stuff would happen if God has an opinion on whether it happens. It's like asking if God has any control, and implying He does not.

I will try and be as brief as possible as readers should be able to adopt there own unique interpretation and adapt it to there own circumstances. The poem is about a woman who falls in love with the man she wants - not the man he is. Therefore he fails to keep her happy and tries to be 'the masterpiece' she has drawn and picture sin her mind. The mind and heart however are different things one feels and one thinks/sees. The reference 'the madonna of the rocks' was a painting Nuns commissioned Leonardo da vinci to do, they were very specific in how and what was supposed to be in the picture. Da vinci however being himself added his views, himself pretty much into the poem and was chastized for it displaying controversial and blasphemous images and depictions of 'Madonna'. He therefore had to re-paint it to the order they wanted. This is interesting because artists put their 'blank canvass' on a pedestal (much like we are a blank canvass at the beginnings of a relationship) and the artist creates their own interpretation of something that was/is real (for instance the lover) the title is relevant here as is the point that behind her painting the true picture is hidden (the person he is) tears wash away these layers revealing his true self, who he is (her anomaly, her fake an abberation) in short we cannot choose who falls in love with us, but we must be sure they love us for who we are or we become not just their anomaly but also ours. Its about being who we are and not how we're pictured. Da vincis poertait of Madonna Of the rocks is a good example of someone creative who is admired but then hated for creating 'a masterpiece of disappointment' - that masterpiece is who we truly are. I hope thats helped it is a very deep poem.

One of your best in a while, D. Kind of a sad, haunting feel to it. Wow, a 0...Don't think I've ever seen you give one of those before...Either I made you really mad or I posted the worst collection of scribblings ever.

Love your stuff Dovina!!!!!!!!Thanks for the vote Baby! And always remember every poem has a world within it! The Peekster63

Killer!!! The Peekster

I don't hate it.... ok maybe I don't hate it a lot. Very good poem. I especially adore the beginning of the second stanza.

Improvement on the original by far.

I am only as far as you imagine me to be.

Love the poem, keep'em coming.

sad

Delete the last stanza.

This poem is simply astonishing.

Rich

Weak, really. The first five lines are like a club sandwich Up the ass of short bus surface scratching.

Congratulations on inventing the Christian yogurt enema.

Man is but a messenger between Mary and Isis. We are only Hermes, and heros, that is our fate.