A Lover's Eyes

A LOVER’S EYES The biting blue of ice bergs Breaking knives into the sea-- The thousand shades of green adrift in the shadows of lashes-- Brown, stark as winter bark Nudged beside the snow-- Passion-black Ship in silhouette Returning from the wars. Each lover’s eye a Splendor. Magnified Mutability-- Eyes flicker hot to cold Faster than a chemist's burner. Provocative by timelessness, Eyes can haunt forever with the memory they enslave-- Fortune, infamous for cruelty, Is kind in this respect-- Time cannot diminish The magnificence Of Eyes Victoria Anderson-Throop (a rewrite of an old poem)