Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
It Doesn’t Matter if You Write a Good Poem
A poet’s autobiography is his poetry
-Yevtushenko
It doesn’t matter if you write a good poem Today
But only that you write a poem Now
The poem to follow will be better Tomorrow
Or maybe not -
But it will BE Forever
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Delaney Hall in New Jersey is not my Cousin
…nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
-Amendment IV
From a few miles away, The Lady with the Lamp
Shines her light of freedom upon a concentration camp
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Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's
Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Grace and a Wheelchair
At the coffee shop
I found myself kneeling, as if in
church
Crawling behind some empty tables in
search
Of an electrical outlet for my new
friend Grace
Whose mother wheeled her in for a space
And Grace needed electricity for her
little screen
Where a red cow played in a pasture
green
“Will this outlet do?” “Oh, it’s too
far away”
So good folk formed a committee today:
“If we move this table back, and shift
this chair…”
Family together – it’s right and fair
Thus Grace was enthroned, the queen of
our hearts
Her subjects had all played their
several parts
Grace has no filters, no volume
control
But, oh! What a happy, blessed soul!
And I returned to my coffee as if
everything had happened
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
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Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's
Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Upon Being Invited to a Zoom Meeting about
Japanese Poetry
As Basho Did Not Say
Soft winds do not zoom
The sky silently shares dreams
But not on glass screens
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's
Journal of Life, Literature and Love
The Bishop of Rome and an A.I. Tower
of Babel
Artificial intelligent is not where life is at -
So everybody smoke, smoke, smoke that ziggurat!
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
An Excerpt from Kubla Don
As Coleridge Did Not Say
On sacred land did Kubla Don
A tatty wrestling ring decree
Where bit-coins, his sacred lucre, ran
From taxes and seizures measureless to man
Down to a soulless sea
So eighteen acres of historic ground
With guards and guns were barb-wired round
And there were gift shops bright with ringing tills,
Where blossomed many trinkets (not for free)
Crushing the last few bits of greenery…
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