YouTube – Joseph Pearce’s Conversion, clips 1&2
rhapsody June 28th, 2008
Many thanks to the
Rochester Chesterton Society,
for their excellent work. 
Labels: Joseph Pearce Online
Archive for June, 2008
On, “The Quest for Shakespeare”
rhapsody June 21st, 2008
in the words of its author,
biographer Joseph Pearce…
(Scroll down to the “J”s)
Labels: Thanks to a Dallas visitor
Breathtaking!
rhapsody June 21st, 2008
Jef Murray, whose work can be viewed
& is available at Mystical Realms.
Mr. Murray also did the illustrations
for Joseph Pearce’s recent book of poetry,
Labels: Bravo, with lots of exclamation points
From Poetry with a Purpose
rhapsody June 20th, 2008
*****Meranda*****
by Ernestine Cobern Beyer
Long ago, and far below the
sea’s gigantic gale,
Meranda lived~ a mermaid with
a most becoming tail.
Her face was sweet and merry, and
her voice, enchanting, very,
As it mingled, light and airy, with
the ocean’s somber scale.
King Neptune heard and was so stirred,
he called his wizards three.
“I want to keep Meranda’s song! It
must not die!” said he.
“Come, wizard and magician! Show
your skill and your ambition.
And grant the wish I’m wishin’! Catch
this lovely song for me!”
The wisest of the wizards did not have
to ponder long.
Said he with verve, “A shell will serve
to hold Meranda’s song!”
His brothers cried, “Be quiet! You’re a
fool! You can’t deny it!”
But the king replied, “Let’s try it! This
will prove him right or wrong!”
Meranda, then, began again her
captivating art.
She held a shell and sang to it while
Neptune stood apart.
She charmed the king completely with
the tune she trilled so sweetly–
And the shell retained it neatly in its
iridescent heart.
Go find a shell and listen well and
tell me what you hear.
Though wave and wind have dimmed and
thinned that singing, once so clear.
Through walls of pink and yellow you
will hear the ocean’s cello…
And a murmur, soft and mellow, will
whisper in your ear.
*Meranda is from Poetry with a Purpose
compiled by Barbara Beyer Malley.
& a special thanks to Michelle the Mermaid
from Justitia, for playing the part of Meranda.
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