Sep 5, 2021 | Gus Stevens, Humor, Irregular Rhyme
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. -T.S. Eliot I scrape the gummy mess from the desks, the wall: the nametag of a favored student years before, then two more I can’t remember well. I walk again down an empty hall...
Mar 27, 2020 | Gus Stevens, Humor, Irregular Rhyme, Seasons, Spring
Day 1 You tell yourself that you are going to learn French. Instead you make coffee with milk and tell yourself it’s okay because they’ve yet to close the grocery stores; no need to break into the shelf-stable supplies. You tell yourself lies—that...
Nov 23, 2018 | Gus Stevens, Humor, Rhymed Couplets, Winter
This dull and wintry day is still a weeping grey. But with the turning of a dial perhaps I’ll force a smile by conjuring the warmth of June against this gloomy afternoon. Like a bored cat, I linger. I boil water with my finger. Yet, despite this warlock power, I...
Aug 31, 2017 | Gus Stevens, Humor, Irregular Rhyme, Multi-Syllabic Rhyme
**Play this Audio while reading** Also don’t read if you care about SPOILERS. The rebel lords of this place must call me “your grace” And let me replace a dragon to the throne, see how they’ve grown. You hear the hooves, I make the moves with...
Jul 6, 2017 | Gus Stevens, Humor, Terza Rima
“During this time, the mother and the child are removed from the enclosure for their safety.” We read the sign and then filed underground to the male Gorilla’s lair where he lived for the present time alone; they’d been known, even to kill...
Feb 23, 2017 | Acrostic, Gus Stevens, Humor, Italian Sonnet, Sonnet
A crostics, the poems assigned to school C hildren because they don’t yet know how to R hyme or count syllables—the teachers tool O nce they’ve learned their letters and the first few S ounds that blend together to make up words. T imothy begins with the...
