Lawrence Hall

The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Prayer for Saint John Paul II with a Bar Code - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Prayer for Saint John Paul II with a Bar Code A homily scrunched onto a prayer card A catal...

Blood Moon - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Blood Moon The end of the world is upon us again Twice in one month our planet has been curse...

The Long Retreat - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Long Retreat Everything seems to be sad twilight now Our golden dusk has dimmed, and sl...

Song of the Wild Sheep - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Song of the Wild Sheep Does a sheep ever long to be a free spirit? While waiting in a pen for she...

Cane, Shillelagh, or Pilgrim’s Staff?

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Cane, Shillelagh, or Pilgrim’s Staff? A walking stick does not walk at all; it is carried by ...
Monday, September 21, 2015

On the Shortage of Farmhands - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com On the Shortage of Farmhands Or Got Gratitude? No televised awards for milking c...

Autumn Equinox with Heat and Dust - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Autumn Equinox with Heat and Dust Perhaps old Janus is an autumn god His door is open to the summer...

An Offset Wing - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com An Offset Wing A pine nut rotors down, suspended from Its only wing for this its only flight ...

Notification of Death - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Notification of Death A sheet of paper is a forest leaf Two sides of life reflected in the sun...

The Joint Task Force Combat Commando Pillow Brigade of Fluffy Death

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Joint Task Force Combat Commando Pillow Brigade of Fluffy Death During the American Revolut...

Room at the Inn

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Room at the Inn If Jesus had been born in Newfoundland, the folks there would have found r...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Enemies Foreign and Domestic - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Enemies Foreign and Domestic Some battles are fought in dripping woods And others along river...

About Those Purple Socks - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com About Those Purple Socks Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote The world had no more use for ...

The History Side of Wrong - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aolcom The History Side of Wrong How very joyful then to be condemned For serving on the wrong side ...

A Salvage Sunday Morning - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com A Salvage Sunday Morning Pearly morning mist over our little harbour The water sloshing a few...

Room at the Inn

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Room at the Inn If Jesus had been born in Newfoundland, the folks there would have found room...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

Perhaps Today - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Perhaps Today… The sun appears each dawn, predictably In its accustomed cosmic liturgy Arisin...

Untamed Poem - Poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Untamed Poem A writer in an online 'zeen issues An edict that must not be disobeyed: By order ...

Whatever Happened to Gilligan's Castaways?

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Whatever Happened to Gilligan’s Castaways? After a busy day we are all tempted to take a well-de...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

September at Last - Poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com September at Last A dawn under clouds – September at last No one longs for August, or misses i...
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Lawrence Hall, HSG
Y'r 'umble scrivener knows how to milk cows (altho' he long ago swore to own no livestock larger than dachshunds), build fences, clear brush, and cut firewood. After 18 months in Viet-Nam and Cambodia he worked his way through university as an ambulance driver, nurses' aide, and then LVN. BA in History, University of San Diego, 1976; MEd, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1984; MA in English, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2002. He also taught school, but that makes him a class (no pun) enemy just now. He has been rejected by some of the finest publishing houses in America.
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