Nov 19, 2011 | Sonnet, The Work of Greater Minds, Victorian Sonnet
So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet seasoned show’rs are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As ’twixt a miser and his wealth is found; Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure;...
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...
Aug 16, 2011 | Gus Stevens, Sinner's Psalms vol. 2, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
His enemies, subdued, still spit with rage their hated hymns, “He is just, He is just,” looking at their punisher with disgust, but cannot quench His wrath with such a wage. Our calculus is prone to soon forget just how His wrath must burn against all...
Aug 10, 2011 | Bible Story, Cain, Gus Stevens, Sonnet, The Unspeakable Name vol. 1, Victorian Sonnet
My punishment is more than I can bear! He who finds me will kill me in the open field. Not so. Your crime, cannot cut short my care; your head will be, against such vengeance, sealed. And yet, from the ashes of Eden—length to length— you will roam the desert...
Aug 7, 2011 | Bible Story, Cain, Gus Stevens, Sonnet, The Unspeakable Name vol. 1, Victorian Sonnet
You claim you are not your brother’s keeper, but I detect the absence of a proper fear. What will you say when I raise the sleeper? Though you have ears to hear, you do not hear. I begged you not to join your father’s war and his dreadful crimes not to...
