Da Vinci’s Portrait

by Joseph Ogbonna

I am Monalisa and I am art.
Send me your sweet love letters for a start.
Go on bended knees with your proposals,
There will never be counterproposals.
Come with your dreams and many fantasies!
Come from your different nations and countries!
Come with your longings, it’s a gazing spree.
Let your gazes take you to the high sea.
I feel the impulse of your strong desires!
To my very heart, every man aspires!
Build on my smile, I smile to tempt a lover!
Your lustful desires I will uncover
With nothing more than my own gracious smile.
You desire to have me walk down the aisle,
But I am nothing more than Da Vinci’s portrait,
And a portrayal of his artistic trait.

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Joseph C Ogbonna is a prolific poet from Nigeria. He is very widely published. His poems cut across different areas of life, like romance, love, philosophy, history, religion, Christmas, and so on. His works have been aired by the BBC Radio 3. His is a former high school teacher and amateur historian. He is a lover of classical music, opera, Christian hymns, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Jim Reeves, and Louis Armstrong. He is married to Chizoba Chidindu, and they both live in Enugu, Nigeria.