Saturday, March 31, 2018

Easter Vigil, Sort Of - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Easter Vigil, Sort Of A vigil, no, simply quiet reflection Minutes before midnight, with all asleep ...
Friday, March 30, 2018

A Night of Fallen Nothingness - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Night of Fallen Nothingness The Altar stripped, the candles dark, the Cross Concealed behind a pur...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Life and Times of Pontius Pilate, the Law West of the Jordan - column

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Life and Times of Pontius Pilate, the Law West of the Jordan History, other than those weird litt...

Russians Under Our Beds (a Russia Series, 66) - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Russians Under Our Beds For Our Special Prosecutors, Who Guard and Guide Us Oh, borscht! Those...

Maundy Thursday - Mass of the Last Supper (poem)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Maundy Thursday – Mass of the Last Supper “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang” -...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Prince Myshkin's Vigil (a Russia series, 65) - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Prince Myshkin’s Vigil Pale Prince Myshkin keeps vigil in a room In which two aspects of civilizatio...

The First Hummingbird of Spring - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The First Hummingbird of Spring O wing’ed messenger of happiness, Aloft among the pollinating flower...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

The Staretz (a Russia series, 64) - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Staretz For Fr. Raphael In middle life the sunflower bends its head, No longer to the sun a...

Where are the Squirrels of Spring? - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Where are the Squirrels of Spring? (John Keats wrote much of the first line; I took care of the re...
Monday, March 26, 2018

A Russian Sunflower (a Russia series, 63) - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Russian Sunflower Deep-rooted in the earth, old Zossima Turns daily to the sun, our star in the ea...

Pontius Pilate's Plea - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Pontius Pilate’s Plea My Caesar and my Empire have I served, A diplomatic functionary, true To dis...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

The Russian Soldier, 1918 (a Russia series, 62)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Russian Soldier, 1918 The Russian soldier, Moskina1 in hand, Though filthy, tired, unknown, unpa...

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

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Adventure Begins Over There by Mr. Gomez’ Pickup Truck “And palmeres for to seken straunge stro...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Russians in Moc Hoa (a Russia series, 61) - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com I read lots of Russian lit (in translation, of course) while in Viet-Nam: Russians in Moc Hoa I und...

Welders - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Welders Load a squad of welders into a truck Without any of their equipment or gear And drop them i...
Friday, March 23, 2018

A Novitiate in the World (a Russia series, 60) - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Novitiate in the World “…you will go forth from these walls, but will live like a monk in the w...

"A Thing That Peers in at Bedroom Windows" - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com “A Thing That Peers in at Bedroom Windows” Until last week the rascally Russians were credited wit...

Cambridge Analytica and Facebook Progress Through Your Soul - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Cambridge Analytica and Facebook Progress Through Your Soul “…and thence to a thing that peers in a...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

What Were You THINKING, CBS!? - haiku

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com What Were You Thinking , CBS!? There is basketball But no Young Sheldon tonight Life has no meanin...

Iconophiles (a Russia series, 59) - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Iconophiles Iconophiles are the true revolutionaries Lowering their voices but raising their hearts ...