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.

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

A Sir Philip Sidney Moment with a Rubbish Bin, but not a Red Rubbish Bin - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Sir Philip Sidney Moment   With a Rubbish Bin, but not...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Where are the Frogs of Spring? - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Where are the Frogs of Spring?   -as John Keats never said   Ay, wh...

We Need to Talk - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   We Need to Talk   When a woman says, “we need to talk” ...

How Many Languages of Happiness Do You Speak? - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   How Many Languages of Happiness Do You Speak?   In how many languag...

Oops! I Forgot to Attend the Revolution - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Oops - I Forgot to Attend the Revolution   From an idea ...

Louvre Robbed in Broad Daylight - a question

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   “Louvre Robbed in Broad Daylight”   -news item   One wonders if the...

A Classmate's Noisy Little Sister - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Classmate’s Noisy Little Sister     "The old or...

DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF THE TRANSPARENT DESTRUCTION! - poem (of a sort)

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF THE TRANSPARENT DESTRUCTION!    ...

You are the Poet and the Poem - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   You are the Poet and the Poem   You are the poem and the...

There's Husbandry in Heaven - Lawrence Hall

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   “There’s Husbandry in Heaven”     “…There’s husbandry in heaven; Th...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Who is My Favorite Hero? - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Who is My Favorite Hero?   Do you now, or have you ever…...

Stop Running - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Stop Running   1 Kings 19   Stop searching. Hold still Rest now und...
Friday, October 17, 2025

About Your Poem - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   About Your Poem   If you send a poem, and only one or tw...

Macbeth Will Have No Say About It - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Macbeth Will Have No Say About It                            Light t...

About NO KINGS DAY - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   About NO KINGS DAY     “The King’s under the law, for ...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

The Ruby-Throated Grand Scheme of Things - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office     The Ruby-Throated Grand Scheme of Things   The last hummingbird o...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Dawn Across the Planet - short poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Dawn Across the Planet   Soon you will be awake for breakf...

Forgive Me for not Writing Yesterday - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Forgive Me for not Writing Yesterday   I was reclined be...

She Thinks My Tractor's Schleppy - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   She Thinks My Tractor’s Schleppy   Anyone who can hear “She thinks ...

Kind Hearts are More Than Coronets - rhyming doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   “Kind Hearts are More than Coronets”   Tennyson – “Lady ...
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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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