Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Cuddled up with Cold Medicine and a Warm Dachshund - poem

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  Lawrence Hall & Nyquil ™ Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Cuddled up with Cold Medicine and a Warm Dachshund   ...

Meditation upon a Starlit Northern Sea - poem

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    Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Meditation upon a Starlit Northern Sea   The sea is ...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

If This Were Your Real Life You Would Have Been Given Better Instructions - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   If This Were Your Real Life  You Would Have Been Given Better Instru...

Not Herod's Household Cavalry This Time - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Not Herod’s Household Cavalry This time     The Holy Innocents     N...

Sneeze Across Texas - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Sneeze Across Texas     (widespread respiratory infect...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Aeolian Wisdom - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Aeolian Wisdom   When I was taking my ‘versity courses ‘Twas my obs...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

The Back of the Wardrobe - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The Back of the Wardrobe   If you invite me to your hous...

Eight Lamps to Give Us Light - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Eight Lamps to Give Us Light   For the Martyrs of Bondi Beach   Han...
Friday, December 12, 2025

The Hate in Orwell's 1984 was only Two Minutes - poem, sort of...

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The Hate in Orwell’s 1984 was only Two Minutes   Progre...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Anthony's Pilgrimage in Nunavut - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Anthony’s Pilgrimage In Nunavut     “What went ye into the desert t...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

A Right Turn in Viet-Nam - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Right Turn in Viet-Nam     And whether we shall meet...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Cats Creep in on Measurable Meter - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office     Cats Creep in on Measurable Meter   Having Coffee with Carl Sandb...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

A Window on the Century - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Window on the Century   Pasternak is said to have rais...

Restricted Area - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Restricted Area   No public or media access   Cameras and recording ...

The Voices are Talking about Nat - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   The Voices are Talking about Nat The Voices slither about like Lady...

Plato's Alligator of the Cave - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Plato’s Alligator of the Cave   The real reason Plato mi...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

'Flu Jab at the Supermarket with Rotisserie Chicken and Anaphylactic Shock - poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   ‘Flu Jabs at the Supermarket   To the supermarket with a shopping l...
Monday, December 1, 2025

League Tables for the Lovelorn - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   League Tables for the Lovelorn   V: Give her up, old man...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

A Homily Idling in Neutral Just off the Four-Lane to Emmaus - a poem about long sermons

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Homily Idling in Neutral Just off the Four-Lane to Emmaus   This ...

A Child’s Thanksgiving…WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY, YOUNG MAN!? - rhyming doggere.

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   A Child’s Thanksgiving… WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY, YOUNG MAN!? ...