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.

Friday, July 31, 2020

Where are the Back-to-School Ads? - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Where are the Back-to-School Ads? The tumult in the heart Keeps askin...
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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Dostoyevsky's House of the Living - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Dostoyevsky’s House of the Living “I was in prison…and you came to see m...
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God Behind the Mask - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com God Behind the Mask Perceiving God in someone else’s smile Is awkward eve...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Catnap - MePhone Photograph

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Midway Through THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE - poem

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Midway Through The Oxford Book of Christian Verse O, oh, ah, ah me! ...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Toadstools After a Summer Rain - MePhone Photograph

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The Potter's Wheel - Whimsy with a Spin on Pathos

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Lawrence Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com The Potter’s Wheel Is one of three upon his pickup truck, Which in t...
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Where in (Newark, New Jersey) is the "“Revert to Legacy Blogger” option to be found?

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Change is not always good; this new interface is the sort of change evidenced in decaying road kill.

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Monday, July 27, 2020

A World Lit Only by Double-A Batteries - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com A World Lit Only by Double-A Batteries 1 A fashionable square plastic tick...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Book Shops Offer Us Civilizations - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Book Shops Offer Us Civilizations Book shops offer us civilizations Democ...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Old Pete, a Mighty Hunter Before the Lord - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Old Pete, a Mighty Hunter Before the Lord A cigar box of childhood photogr...
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Friday, July 24, 2020

A Celebration of Water-Hose Clamps - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com A Celebration of Water-Hose Clamps “If you have a garden and a library,...
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Thursday, July 23, 2020

When I was on the Faculty at Notre Dame... - weekly column

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Poeticdrivel.blogspot.com When I was on the Faculty at Notre Dame… Tom Morris is a modern American p...
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What Are We Anti Today? - short poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com What Are We Anti Today? “’Cause we’re the people, and we just keep on a’...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Frog Eggs in the Bees' Pool - MePhone Photograph 22 July 2020

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Frogs are marvelous - they devour mosquitoes and other pests, and are biological markers: frogs are susceptible to pollution, so if you h...
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Silence Gives only Itself - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Silence Gives only Itself “What does it betoken, this silence?” -Cromw...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Coy Litotes - Haiku

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com We Were Diffidently Addressed By coy Litotes Who were not unworthy of Th...
Monday, July 20, 2020

After the Wedding - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com After the Wedding The night outside was cold; the fire was warm And so wa...
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

A Tyburn Tree in Diebus Nostris - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com A Tyburn Tree in Diebus Nostris This summer seems to be a Tyburn Tree Eve...
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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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