Monday, October 28, 2024

The Most Embarrassed Young Father in All of Christendom - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Most Embarrassed Young Father in All of Christendom   I will go in to the Altar of God. To Go...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

The Sunday Evening News in a Time of Elections - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Sunday Evening News in a Time of Elections   “Good things of day begin to droop and ...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

A Plumber's Assistant, a Nazi, and an Artificial Tree - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Plumber’s Assistant, a Nazi, and an Artificial Tree   Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden, 10 F...

I Hear America Whining - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   I Hear America Whining   The world’s fattest people, packin’ the pounds Driving in to ...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Torah is Written with Flames - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Torah is Written with Flames   English letters are as orderly as a battle line But Heb...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Driving Home After Work: "Thus Spake Zarathustra" on the Radio - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Driving Home After Work: “Thus Spake Zarathustra” on the Radio   The first few bars mu...

We are All Children When We Attempt Haiku

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   We are All Children When We Attempt Haiku   We all write Haiku We’re not any good at it But we ho...

SNL: Because Men Who Betray women are so Amusing

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   SNL: Because Men Who Betray Women are so Amusing   Re: Bang-Bang Baldwin   A man sho...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Cardinal Dolan Kisses King Herod's (Hands) - doggerel

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The High Priest Kisses King Herod’s (Hands)   His Eminence the Cardinal of New York   The High Pr...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

The First Barn-Jacket Morning in Autumn - haiku

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The First Barn-Jacket Morning in Autumn   Dawn – windy and cold The first barn-jacket ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The Kittens Come on Little Fog Feet - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Kittens Come on Little Fog Feet   As Carl Sandburg did not say   At dawn: coffee and the Word...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

On Reading THREE HUNDRED TANG POEMS - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   On Reading Three Hundred Tang Poems   From The Jade Mountain they came 300 Tang dreams...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

An Autumn Flight - haiku

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   An Autumn Flight   A leaf fell, a leaf A life of summer in flight In bright golden flight
Friday, October 11, 2024

A Dixson Ticonderoga #2 Pencil from 1955 - poem and photograph

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Dixon Ticonderoga #2 Pencil from 1955   Neither plans nor bathroom vents last forever ...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

One Does Not Pre-Imagine Pre-Edward R. Murrow Pre-Babbling - not exactly a poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   One Does Not Pre-Imagine Pre-Edward R. Murrow Pre-Babbling   A Lesson in Clear Writing for Journa...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

A Treatise on the Burrowing Habits of Dachshunds - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A Treatise on the Burrowing Habits of Dachshunds   A dachshund will burrow under the gar...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

We Are Offered Two Candidates for the Presidency - not nearly a poem (but then not nearly a valid choice)

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com     We Are Offered Two Candidates for the Presidency      I am afraid that one of them will win
Friday, October 4, 2024

Falling Into Truth - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com                                     Falling Into Truth   The fall of October’s leaves is n...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

WE ARE AMERICANS! We Buy Toilet Paper and Fight, Fight, Fight! - a sort-of poem

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    Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Dock Workers’ Strike – BUY TOILET PAPER!   WE ARE AMERICANS!   Whenever threatened by enemies fu...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

His Check Engine Light is On - weak excuse for a poem but there's a nice fresh metaphor

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   His Check Engine Light is On   He came by today, a friend from long ago “I haven’t see...