Palm Sunday Well-Sanitized - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Palm Sunday Well-Sanitized

 

There is social distancing in Jerusalem

Mostly among Romans and Greeks and Jews

Who don’t much like each other anyway -

How is this day different from all other days? ¹

 

This year there is no parking-lot procession

That’s good; the timing of the hymn in front

Never matches the timing ‘way in back

And the mail-order palms are sanitized

 

What hosannas this season, you may well ask:

Wave the virus and proclaim, “Wear your mask!”

 

 

¹ Cf. The Seder

 

 

(This is only a bit of wry humor; good hygiene is always a matter of caritas in protecting others as well as one’s self.)

 

Evening - Palm Sunday

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Evening – Palm Sunday

The waxing moon knows nothing of Holy Week
And stars care nothing for sacred liturgies
Nor do the fireflies flitting among the trees
And ‘round the darkening lawn as evening falls

The beagle dozing in her rabbit-dreams
A neighboring cow looking beyond her fence
And honeybees buzzing to their night-cells hence
Would not understand the penances of Lent

For they never betrayed their God, and thus
They well may serve as a rebuke to us

The Adventure Begins Over There by Mr. Gomez' Pickup Truck - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com

The Adventure Begins Over There by Mr. Gomez’ Pickup Truck

“And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes”

-Chaucer

Everyone is a palmer this holy day
Seeking the strange, elusive shores of truth
Each pilgrim bearing in his eager hands
A palm frond and a photocopied hymn

The pilgrimage begins in the parking lot
And marshaled by the blue HANDICAPPED signs
Ascends to the doors, the narthex, and in,
Up to the Altar, there where all worlds meet

Come to Jerusalem; you’re on the way -
Everyone is a palmer this holy day