The Little Sisters of the Enneagram - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

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The Little Sisters of the Enneagram

 

Wel koude he rede a lesson or a storie,

But alderbest he song an offertorie

 

-Chaucer, General Prologue 70-71

 

Some travelling nuns offered an enneagram weekend

Making the parish hall a lab for self-discovery

Nine truths about the self for a small fee stipend

Two afternoons of healing for the soul’s recovery

 

The Law of Three and the Law of Seven

Tritipes and Wings and something called Triads

Ride your Hexagon around to Heaven

(Please power down your MePhones and IPads)

 

If everyone in the world worked out his enneagram…

We’d still have cope with holy grifters, so (darn)!

Jim Croce and a Rainy Morning - poem

  

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

Jim Croce and a Rainy Morning

 

When the plane went down that was the end

Of telephone operators and bottles of time

But the electronics are kind enough to send

Good memories of when coffee was a dime

 

You really could mess around with Jim

If you knew your way around a chord

And heard his lyrics as a workman’s hymn

That spoke of art offered to the Lord

 

He gave us good thoughts through his guitar’s strum -

And, yeah, a wild moustache to back away from!