Archive for June, 2007
The Question has been Posed
rhapsody June 24th, 2007
How to get quality materials
available to the GENERAL public?
Recommended:
Consider donating subscriptions of Catholic
periodicals like the Saint Austin Review &
Gilbert Magazine to public libraries, doctor’s
offices, & other institutions.
The information needed is available online.
The Hail Mary
rhapsody June 23rd, 2007
*in Apache Indian
Apache Madonna
by silhouette artist
Dan Paulos
Thanks to
Trinity Stores. (link)
* Chestertonian Dr. Thursday (link) has
found a site that offers the Hail Mary (link)
in different languages!
Neat Stuff
rhapsody June 18th, 2007
available from the:American Chesterton Society, (link)
including this Flying Disc, proving that
even really big angels can fly 
Thanks to the:
ChesterTeens, (link)…
& More info on the ACS conference,
from:
The Dawn Patrol (link)
&The Blog of the American
Chesterton Society. (link)
*
The Emperor’s Robe
rhapsody June 17th, 2007
By Ernestine Cobern Beyer
To a famous old Emperor, long, long ago,
Came two wicked tailors who bowed very low.
“We’ve come,” stated one with a smirk and a smile,
“To make you a robe of unusual style.
The cloth we shall use (oh, it passes belief!)
Is invisible, Sire, to a rogue or a thief!
Only the good and the just and the kind
Can see it, the cloth is so ultra-refined!”
Said the Emperor, being a bit of a dunce,
“Make it at once!”
*
Those tailors, the craftiest pair on the globe,
Then went through the motions of making the robe.
They measured and cut and they snipped and they stitched,
While the Court and the Emperor watched them, bewitched.
Not one in the palace was honest enough
To say: “There’s no robe! It’s a hoax! It’s a bluff!”
Instead, they exclaimed with exuberant praise:
“Never has robe so enchanted our gaze!”
The Emperor thought (and most puzzled was he)
“Everyone’s able to see it but me!
I mustn’t admit it because if I do,
It means I’m a rogue or I’d see the robe, too!
And so I must use my invalu’ble head,
And pretend that I see it!” Aloud, then, he said:
“The robe is distinguished! (Be careful! Don’t tear it!)
And since it’s a robe of exceptional merit,
“I’ll wear it!”
Well, wear it he did. Dressed in nothing, complete,
The Emperor happily strutted the street
While two little pages, important and vain,
Hoisted aloft his invisible train.
Everyone cheered him with fervor and joy
Except little Peter, the butcher man’s boy,
Who, having no personal axes to grind,
Stated the truth with an innocent mind.
Cried Peter in wonder unblemished with guile:
“The Emperor’s wearing a beautiful smile!
And,” he went on in a tone clear and small,
That’s ALL!”
Great coverage of the Chesterton Conference
By Joe LeClerc
rhapsody June 13th, 2007
THROWN
white nights glimmer pink champagne’s
pyrotechnique sparkle glamour throne
woven blanketique astral sewn twinkle
patterns – each blink a wink connected
by the eye needs a line – draughtsman’s
horse, nymph hidden, swans y los toros
bidden – all to populate enormous sphere’s
interior surface – terra unsun – those in darkness
spy bright glories – enlightened eyes see infinite
blue or clouded azure
who threw the ball?
- so much blazing mystery within *
Look who’s gracing the cover
rhapsody June 11th, 2007
of the latest issue of
*Gilbert Magazine!
Biographer Joseph Pearce
will be speaking at the
Chesterton conference
later this week…
Which will be covered by
Dawn Eden,
who’s also a speaker, &
(hopefully!) Terry from
&
*Cover by Theodore
from SmallPax .
Apple’s Rose Canto
rhapsody June 11th, 2007
By Joe LeClerc
The apple
drove home
a nail
in pine wood
blonde
violins
married african violets, flowers bearing,
giving birth to
wooden willows
singing sonatinas
Marimbas rang chimes
as star clouds drift misted
and kissed moon’s pale cheek
before morphing to water
Willow choir
with angel’s lyre
strings that harp melody arrows
flying
to the ears
of the Pleiades The star cluster
cries with pleasure
at hearing the music of blonde violet boughs
branched with flowers
of soft glory
