"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


Monday, March 28, 2011

Magpie #59


Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci



Your enigmatic smile

Behind bulletproof glass

Is it guile or denial?



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25 comments:

  1. I've always felt sorry for her behind the glass... I think it's guile =-)

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  2. Too bad we will never know, but it is fun guessing.

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  3. A bit of both, maybe?
    Poor Lisa, trapped behind glass forever.

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  4. Good question. Guile, I guess.

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  5. Who knows? Interesting question although the answer will always be a secret.

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  6. Preserved forever so it most be a little of both!

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  7. Denial ... for sure.

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  8. We will never know the truth!
    Short Poems

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  9. We will always wonder.

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  10. Forever. Forever. We can only guess. Great Magpie...

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  11. Anonymous5:43 PM

    Heck of a good question...and very cleverly put. Vb

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  12. I hope to see her in person one day...

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  13. Excellent question! Alas, I bet she'd never tell...

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  14. I'm for guile...but then I usually am!

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  15. I guess it's a lot of things, nice take on the prompt.

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  16. Or is it yet our style? A shame that this world should need bulletproof glass for art.

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  17. A very interesting question.

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  18. Thought provoking indeed Kathe...love your take on the prompt! :-)

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  19. Am adoring the last line - good lead-up, too.

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  20. I guess we'll never know.

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  21. hearts behind bullet-proof glass too!

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  22. Your haiku makes me think . . her smile is as impenetrable as bullet-proof glass.

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  23. Such a concept, being behind bullet-proof glass. A sign of the times such as that should not entrap anything from another time...

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  24. I too thought the bullet-proof glass didn't get the attention it deserved . . A bullet-proof smile seems a lovely idea. Hmmmm.

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  25. To know the truth, we'd have to see the real thing up close, devoid of tourists and glass--both of which bar us from knowing...

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