14 | "All I know of the sea" [pantoum]

The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
the argument of your smile exceeds all tomes
for in your eyes abides   my heart supposes
all history   the world with all its gloams
the argument of your smile exceeds all tomes
the explanation within your gaze suffices
all history   the world with all its gloams
then seems a pale box of poor devices

the explanation within your gaze suffices?
but I must find its plenary implication
then seems a pale box of poor devices
my reasoning   you spur anticipation
but I must find its plenary implication
I merely dip in shallows of your eyes
my reasoning   you spur anticipation
I seek the being hidden within the guise

I merely dip in shallows of your eyes
why do I lack the feet to reach your door?
I seek the being hidden within the guise
for all I know of the sea is a windy shore
why do I lack the feet to reach your door?
conceding my defeat   the poem closes
for all I know of the sea is a windy shore
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses



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Pantoum beginning and ending with a line borrowed from e. e. cummings -- from his poem that begins with the line "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond", from his volume W [Viva] (1931)

This is no. 14 in a sequence, Early Autumn Pantoums