Thursday, January 30, 2025

Flight 5342 - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Happy Young Lives Rich with Promise   “I will go in to the Altar of...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Cancelling the InterGossip Service - not exactly a poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Cancelling the InterGossip Service   And how are you tod...

Guarding Borders Against Criminals - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Guarding Borders Against Criminals     In any case we are not attac...

A Corporal Who Would Never Be a Sergeant - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Corporal Who Would Never Be a Sergeant   He was a corporal who wo...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Late January is a Time of Grey - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Late January is a Time of Grey   I read a little in Bill...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Third Sunday in Extraordinary Time - very short

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 Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Third Sunday in Extraordinary Time   Dear friends in Christ,   The di...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Tiny Artists of the Night - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Tiny Artists of the Night   Snowflakes by flashlight in ...

The Dignity of the Office - doggerel

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The Dignity of the Office   Whatever the incoming president fancies...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

The White House Inaugural Banquet and the Idle Dishwashing Machine - doggerel

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 Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The White House Inaugural Banquet and the Idle Dishwashing Machine   ...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

The Holy Bible as a Base for a Potted Plant - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The Holy Bible as a Base for a Potted Plant   On a little shelf in o...

Dag Hammarskjold Negotiates with Himself and with God - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Dag Hammarskjold Negotiates with Himself and with God   ...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Binding Each Word with a Prayer - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Binding Each Word with an Incantation, a Charm, a Spell   You. Not ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Front Toward Enemy - very short free verse poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Front Toward Enemy   If In what we may laughingly call...

The Cold Has Gotten Old - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The Cold Has Gotten Old       For many years I was a self-appointed...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Nothing You Write is Confidential - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Your Poem’s Background Check   And above all, who is in ...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Your Changes Have Been Made - poem

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 The transfer has botched the formatting. Please accept this as is. Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office     ...

Imagine There's No "Imagine" - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Imagine There’s No “Imagine” “Christendom has had a series...

Stand-To for Night Patrol - short poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Stand-To for Night Patrol     The Americans were said to believe th...

There is More Than One Book - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   There is More Than One Book   A civilization writes and ...

52 Hebrew Words - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   52 Hebrew Words   Max gave me a book:  52 Hebrew Words For Christma...