Jan 4, 2013 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Quatrains, Rhymed Couplets, The Unspeakable Name vol. 1
“You must leave your land, your gods. Take flight.” The Voice was so unyielding, so obscure. How could he trust that whisper in the night beckoning the patriarch from his home in Ur? At the dead end of his doubts he could not— and perhaps it was only...
Nov 4, 2012 | Gus Stevens, Quatrains, Rhymed Couplets, Sinner's Psalms vol. 1
The wedding invitation I refuse; I cannot match your hunger for delight. In black robes instead of white I recuse myself; I do not have the appetite. Only a perfect one could be your muse; I wear more sensible shoes. Why do you keep me, pampered as a house-cat basking...
Oct 21, 2012 | Rhymed Couplets, The Work of Greater Minds
Late August, given heavy rain and sun for a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it...
Oct 14, 2012 | Quatrains, Rhymed Couplets, The Work of Greater Minds
O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day...
Jun 17, 2012 | Rhymed Couplets, The Work of Greater Minds
No tree however deep the roots, However high and green the shoots, However strong the trunk has stood, Or firm the fibers of the wood, No tree was ever meant to be A never-ending shade for me Or you. Save one: where Jesus died With bleeding branches spread as wide And...
May 22, 2012 | Rhymed Couplets, Song, The Work of Greater Minds
There is just one apple on the tree It isn’t like I’d hoped it’d be. Yesterday when there was still you I looked, and I swear that I saw two. Maybe a wandering white tail deer came in the night to make it even more clear and left me just one, a...