Thor's Day: For if you're very good

A trestina^* for the very good:

For you all , if you're saints, your very day

The Catholic Church recognizes saints,
Too many of them to give each of all
His very own, singular, special day.

So it bundled the big-name ones with all
the rest and scheduled a collective day
for the general remembrance of saints.

Are you yourself sanctified? Then this day
Remembers you with the official saints,
And if you are good we won't mind at all.

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* A trestina is a brief form of sestina, of my own devising, in which three (rather than six) end-words appear in a prescribed order in the poem's title and its three three-line stanzas, as exemplified above for the words all, saints, and day.
Copyright © 2012 by Morris Dean