Wednesday, February 19, 2025

The Stafford Challenge, Day 34


Today, another ekphrastic poem . . . not of Grant Wood this time but rather of one of my own digital art pieces, Mona Lisa SG. This is a soundplay tanka (5/7/5/7/7), with a bit of rhyme in the last two lines, both internal and external.

Madrigal in M and G
After Mona Lisa SG
by Vince Gotera (2017)
Mona Lisa’s new
Gibson guitar: gold SG,
glimmering sunset,
magic hour, enigmatic
smile, G minor glam music.

—Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]

Vince Gotera, Mona Lisa SG (2017)

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