Eyes Eyes. Surprise fills me; did Rachel look this way, Or Leah, surprising marriage bride? Oceans - too trite a trope! I need the excess of some Elizabethan sonneteer, Yet without Puritanical, modest excess. Like Aphra Behn, fantasies support my art. Thighs? No, eyes. Beauty lies in all, But in the eyes the soul breathes clear As if a zephyr stroked my sleeping form And stroking, stokes the life within. No dream-world safe, no maidenhead unpierced By fantasy and memory unbound. Lies. These are the windows of the soul, So oft betrayed by smiling lies. A thousand Christmases, a date That never was, warm soft eyes With promises of eternal bliss If one will only not Blink. copyright 19 July 2000 by Earle B. 'Glas' Durboraw.