Saturday, April 25, 2015

Upon Re-Reading The Brothers Karamazov

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Just now I finished re-reading The Brothers Karamazov , not without relief but with more appreciation, especially for the trial. The defens...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Emmaus isn't on the Map

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Emmaus isn’t on the Map The road from Emmaus is not in the book Emmaus isn’t even on the map Still, ...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Had Byron Lived a Few Years Longer

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Had Byron Lived a Few Years Longer V: She stalks in Makeup, like a fright Of Senior Specials and...

A Morning in March

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A Morning in March This morning is a sonnet sweetly sung First by the breeze sighing through apple le...

The Styled One

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Styled One “What are you rebelling against?” “Whaddaya got?” “A philosophical matrix predicate...

The Morning Paper and a Cigarette

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Morning Paper and a Cigarette The morning paper and a cigarette, A cup of coffee to complete the ...

Said to be a Suicide

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Said to be a Suicide Adrift among old sheets in a shadowy bed Emptying breaths into an empty space A...

Two in the Morning

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Two in the Morning Two in the morning is its own Good Friday When the insolence of catalogued years ...

False Autumn

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com False Autumn Dripping and damp, another dull, dark day Heavy and low, months-old cold, drifting mist ...

Secrets and Seasons

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Secrets and Seasons Even a lover of autumn must yield this point: This mild March morning disposes a ...

Palm Sunday Travel Tips

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Palm Sunday Travel Tips At last we have come to Jerusalem Spiritual gawkers checking out the sites: ...

Instructions to the Chauffeur

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Instructions to the Chauffeur Said the owner, most intently, “Mind, now, how you drive my Bentley: A...

Sola Scriptura

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Sola Scriptura “It’s right here in the Bible!” she said, Waving around her smart ‘phone over her head...

Rachel, Weeping for Our Children

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Rachel, Weeping for Our Children From an idea suggested by Kelly Rogers No soldiers come, with glari...

Chertkovo

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Chertkovo For Eugenio Corti Perhaps the site is now a garbage heap A parking lot, a drainage ditch,...

Old-People Coffee

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Old-People Coffee A cup of senior coffee – forty-three cents But coffee – how can it be a senior – I...

Economic Exile

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Economic Exile Another dreary airport boarding gate Ear-phones, MePhones, travelers huddled in Leath...

Pasch

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Pasch at St. Michael’s, 2015 What sort of man sits in the silent dark And waits for a small candle to...

Contra Ivan Karamazov

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A little exposition: In The Brothers Karamazov Ivan is an agnostic who cannot reconcile faith and his E...

The Wandering Gentile

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Wandering Gentile1 For Tod on his 75th birthday How odd to be Bilbo at Rivendell Or Jack and Wa...