Sunday, June 30, 2019

The Yellow Dairy Barn and the State of Texas Milk Inspector - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Yellow Dairy Barn and the State of Texas Milk Inspector My father painted his dairy barn yellow ...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Twenty Kerenskys Passing in Review - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Twenty Kerenskys Passing in Review “No doubt they’ll sing in tune after the revolution.” -Kamar...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Served on a Tectonic Plate - rhyming couplet

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Served on a Tectonic Plate I ate my lunch on a tectonic plate It drifted away - my dessert is late!
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Is Your Bible Communist? - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com 26 June 2019 Is Your Bible Communist? The Washington Post , not everyone’s favorite news source, is ...

When Dogs Don't Wanna be Dogs - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com When Dogs Don’t Wanna be Dogs You send the pups outside to play This so-soft, sunny summer day The ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Breaking the Dress Code - a weak, two-line wheeze, hardly a poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Breaking the Dress Code We broke at last the secretive dress code With an Enigma machine from Singer
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

A Scientific Afterlife - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Scientific Afterlife What scientific wreckage is buried now Beneath a chiseled granite sentimen...
Monday, June 24, 2019

System Errors - Please know that I did format these scribbles appropriately...

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...Something or someone is making a mess of it all.

What is Poetry? - rhyming couplet (Something is botching the formatting)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com What is Poetry? Poetry is a language that Is not prose. Nor is it a hat
Sunday, June 23, 2019

"For if a Preest be Foul..." - poem (the system is botching the format - I hope you can read this at all)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com If the Faith is a Lie For if a preest be be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man t...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

The Robotic Telephone Tree of Lingering Death - poem (of a sort)

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Robotic Telephone Tree of Lingering Death Hello, you have reached your longtime hometown downhome...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Summer Solstice - Did the Earth Move for You Too? - a wheeze

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Summer Solstice - Did the Earth Move for You Too? The almanac says that the Solstice came Shortly a...

A Friend Asked Me to Look Over His Book Before Publication - a rhyming couplet and cautionary tale

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Friend Asked Me to Look Over His Book Before Publication He asked me to review his book (I must be ...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Your Liturgy of the Hours - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Your Liturgy of the Hours A book of poetry is a prayer book Your Daily Office of verses and lines A...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

A Hank Williams Night - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Hank Williams Night You’re lonely in an apartment at night But lonesome way off in a pickup truck ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The Successor to Steve Allen's MEETING OF MINDS - rhyming couplet

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Successor to Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds A cookery show with noshes and gnaws - People giving...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Hospice Care - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Hospice Care Whispered voices adrift about the house The little cousins all sent out to play Adults...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

For a Single Mother on Fathers' Day - a lapse into free verse

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com For a Single Mother on Father’s Day No father Could have been a better father Than you When duty c...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

A Paean to Dabblers - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Paean to Dabblers Oh, yes, you should dabble amateurishly With sketchbook, pen, guitar, and cresc...

A Man's Not Dressed Without His Pocket Knife - column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com (Recycled from 2009, and so possibly a re-post) A Man’s Not Dressed Without His Pocket Knife This l...