10 | "Addressed to you" [pantoum]

The poem was addressed to you
it was you whose liquid eyes
held its pensive page in view
and savored its droll surprise
it was you whose liquid eyes
discerned its solid strength
and savored its droll surprise
throughout the poem's length

discerned its solid strength
but in what did this reside?
throughout the poem's length
was there modesty or pride?
but in what did this reside?
in the way the words were shaped?
was there modesty or pride
where the metaphors were draped?

in the way the words were shaped
in the feeling of the lines
where the metaphors were draped
you could sip the poet's wines
in the feeling of the lines
you could sense the wider view
you could sip the poet's wines
the poem was addressed to you



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This is no. 10 in a sequence, Early Autumn Pantoums