Nov 14, 2011 | The Work of Greater Minds, Villanelle
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.Good...
Nov 13, 2011 | The Work of Greater Minds, Villanelle
Most of you know that I have a certain affection/obsession with sonnets, but I have been tinkering with a new poetic form, called a villanelle, in recent days. Similar to a sonnet, villanelles have a fixed rhyme scheme and predefined structure and length. These...
Nov 7, 2011 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Quatrains, The Unspeakable Name vol. 2
Amnon held his desired to the bed and, famished, smiled as he ravished the prey. Then he sickened like a man overfed; the flesh he sought, consumed, stank of decay. Absalom smiled too as he avenged the rape. But even the pleasures of revenge take flight; once the trap...
Aug 26, 2011 | Gus Stevens, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
Who could foresee how such a thing begins with the striking of Bouazizi’s match. The despots stare with their uneasy grins as the flickering fires of Carthage catch. The people of a thousand crescent lands cast off their shah, their colonel or their king whose...
Aug 24, 2011 | Gus Stevens, Sinner's Psalms vol. 2, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
Parallel lines extend along the graph and far as eyes can see draws mystery. All our lives we wonder if this paragraph is the final or the first of history. We see both hell and heaven occupied and know the perfect judge of all must be by justice or by mercy...
