Friday, August 29, 2025

Because They are Young - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Because They are Young   For Those Who Have Lost Children   The goo...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Where is Herod's Father? - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Where is Herod’s Father?   …lamentation, and weeping, an...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

An Hour in Which Nothing Much Happened - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   An Hour in Which Nothing Much Happened     The country talked quiet;...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

The Government Religion in Texas - poem (a bit strident, but so is its edict))

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The Eleventh Commandment Falls Upon Us From the State Reli...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Ode to a Monitor Lizard - rhyming doggerel

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Ode to a Monitor Lizard   I saw a picture of a monitor lizard Its s...

Making Peace with Apple ICloud - poem (of a sort)

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Making Peace with Apple ICloud   (Off. Click)

"I Pray You, Remember the Porter" a poem about a sort-of retirement

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   “I Pray You, Remember the Porter”   - Macbeth  II.ii.20-21   When I ...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

When Alliteration and Peter Piper Go Bad - nonsense

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   When Alliteration Goes Bad   Peter Piper Picked a ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

To a True Believer: When I.C.E. Runs Out of Immigrants - quatrain

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   To a True Believer: When I.C.E. Runs out of Immigrants   Many genuine ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

“I Pray You, Remember the Porter” - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   “I Pray You, Remember the Porter”   - Macbeth II.ii.20-...

America Inspires the Free World - couplet

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   America Inspires the Free World   Americans are a people who, when ...

An Exercise in Alliteration Cut Short by the August Heat - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   An Exercise in Alliteration Cut Short by the August Heat  ...

Resettlement to the East on Kristi's Personal Prisoner Airline - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   “Resettlement to the East”   Kristi Noem is pushing for ICE to buy a...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Dust Devils on a Sunday Morning in August - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Dust Devils on a Sunday Morning in August   The Road to ...

A Bronze Plaque Commemorating the Trump-Putin Summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Bronze Plaque Commemorating the Trump-Putin Summit at Jo...

The Shroud of Turin is True Again Today! Or Maybe Not! - doggerel having fun with the U. K. DAILY MAIL

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The Shroud of Turin is True Again Today! Or Maybe Not!   ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Our Little Universities - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Our Little Universities   From an idea by Nivek   Many books are lit...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Let’s All Meet in Cicely - sonnet

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Let’s All Meet in Cicely     From an idea flown all th...

Never Begin a Poem with “I” - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Never Begin a Poem with “I”   I suppose I have been commanded to wr...

You've Read Your Last Free Article - not exactly a poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   You’ve Read Your Last Free Article   Yes, I have.   ...