The clerihew: an excellent little style of poetry invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Basically, a biographical poem, naming the subject in the first line, following an AABB rhyme scheme. And that's it. Nice.
I dropped the ball in not getting these out before (yesterday being St. Pius X's feast day) (at least in my calendar), but when you live outside of time, it is a little annoying going back into the land of years, days, and hours.
Ahem.
The Tenth Pope Pius
Sighed, "Modernists sure try Us."
They thought they were terribly trendy
But he got 'em with Pascendi.
And this one, loosely inspired by the frustrations of the excellent Fr. Groeschel ...
The Spirit of Vatican Two
Makes a poor subject for clerihew.
(The subject, Bentley insisted,
Ought to have existed.)
Began writing another one about meus ac vester amicus Marty Haugen, but then I realized that his name rhymes with "deserves a floggin'," and it just got more uncharitable from there. Remember people -- love the ubiqitous liturgical composer, hate the ubiquitous liturgical compost.
More later. Perhaps something less controversial, like some good old-fashioned popular piety.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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