Wilhelmus à Broccoli
Puritan Board Freshman
Since poems are a thing in here now, would anyone like to take a stab at a theological clerihew? Clerihews are four-line, irregular-meter poems written in two rhyming couplets about a well-known figure. A popular example by the inventor (Edmund Clerihew Bentley) is
Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's."
Usually they deal with some well-known fact about the person's life and work, but in a humorous and commonplace sort of way.
My church friend Seth and I have been writing them about prominent (and less-prominent) CBA pastors and gifted brothers. I thought I would solicit Reformed clerihews from the general population.
A couple I have written that make sense outside of CBA circles:
St. Thomas Aquinas
Thought this argument finest:
"It seems to be so.
On the contrary...no."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Said to his surgeon,
"I hope that your blade
Has received no downgrade."
Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's."
Usually they deal with some well-known fact about the person's life and work, but in a humorous and commonplace sort of way.
My church friend Seth and I have been writing them about prominent (and less-prominent) CBA pastors and gifted brothers. I thought I would solicit Reformed clerihews from the general population.
A couple I have written that make sense outside of CBA circles:
St. Thomas Aquinas
Thought this argument finest:
"It seems to be so.
On the contrary...no."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Said to his surgeon,
"I hope that your blade
Has received no downgrade."
