Dec 6, 2011 | Marilee (Clement) Brewer, Rhymed Couplets, The Work of Greater Minds
It was a hard thing to undo this knot. The rainbow shines but only in the thought Of him that looks. Yet not in that alone, For who makes rainbows by invention? And many standing round a waterfall See one bow each, yet not the same to all, But each a hand’s...
Dec 2, 2011 | Sonnet, The Work of Greater Minds, Victorian Sonnet
Is lust in action; and till action, lust The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, Past...
Nov 29, 2011 | The Work of Greater Minds, Villanelle
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance from ear to ear. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. Of those so close beside...
Nov 26, 2011 | Rhymed Couplets, Sonnet, The Work of Greater Minds, Victorian Sonnet
He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou, And dream of Pheidian* fancies and embrace in heart Symbols (I Know) which cannot be the thing Thou art. Thus always, taken at their word, all prayers blaspheme Worshiping...
Nov 22, 2011 | Rhymed Couplets, The Work of Greater Minds
Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Share...
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;...
