Mar 3, 2012 | Quintains, The Work of Greater Minds
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, “Let us,” said he, “pour on him all we can. Let the world’s riches, which dispersèd lie, Contract into a span.” So strength...
Feb 28, 2012 | Gus Stevens, Quatrains, Rhymed Couplets, Sinner's Psalms vol. 1
You are in me like an absence, a void, one that could be filled with all the wanted things— an emptiness made of what I’ve not enjoyed. My bird wears none so fine a set of wings. The woman is not ill-dressed, but if only she would display her treasures on the...
Feb 20, 2012 | Gus Stevens, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
God, our only witness, takes delight And whispers, “Lovers, drink deep your fill, For I made this both wholesome and right; The pleasures are mine which overspill Into your bed. Listen and grow wise: Married love is pleasing in my sight, And what I call good do not...
Jan 16, 2012 | Grief, Gus Stevens, Quatrains, Songs for the Dead
Goodnight my friend. Goodnight sweet Carines. When I heard, I did not want to believe; if it were true, the earth would be made less, made ugly, cruel; a pain without reprieve. But the mourning world wages quiet war; against death, our ever-enemy, we crusade as the...
Jan 12, 2012 | The Work of Greater Minds, Unrhymed Other
anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same sun moon...
