Eyes As Clear by Megan Windom

Eyes As Clear by Megan Windom

With eyes as clear as a summer dawn

 You draw me in

To plunge myself with fervent hunger

Into the azure pools in which I drown

I wonder if they taste like ocean

With the sound of scuttling crabs

Hiding away from the seagulls

They draw circles in the sky

Long ovoid shapes that spiral up and down

You could trap them in your hands

And carry them on your broad shoulders

But instead you choose to carry my burden

So I chant your praise to silent ears

Filled with admiration

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(“With a glance of your eyes…”) by Rabindranath Tagore

XII

With a glance of your eyes you could plunder all the wealth of songs struck from poets’ harps, fair woman!

But for their praises you have no ear; therefore do I come to praise you.

You could humble at your feet the proudest heads of all the world;

But it is your loved ones, unknown to fame, whom you choose to worship; therefore I worship you.

Your perfect arms would add glory to kingly splendor with their touch;

But you use them to sweep away the dust, and to make clean your humble home; therefore I am filled with awe.