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…
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's
Journal of Life, Literature and Love
A Skull and a Missing Boundary Marker
For Memorial Day
“We’re in Cambodia,” the boat captain whispered
Unlike Shelley’s Ozymandias
There were no trunkless legs of stone, no carvings
No border station, no marker, no words
The skipper cut the engines. We drifted. Heat
Silence beneath the encoffining trees
Perhaps the ghosts were telling us to go away
Remember them maybe, but go away
Someone handed me an aged skull he had found
Vietnamese?
French?
Japanese?
Cambodian?
Too old to be an American
All had passed, and we were passing too
No boundary marker, only a skull
Eternal rest grant unto them, O
Lord, and let perpetual Light shine upon them. May they rest in peace.
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
de Chardin’s Omega Point
If I knew where I was sailing from,
I could calculate where I was sailing to.
-Number Six, The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben
The Philosopher suggests there is an Omega Point
Where the physics and mysteries of Creation converge
Where the End is the Beginning without an end
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful unified
Then there must have been, or is, or will be
An Alpha base of Creation and Incarnation
Snakes and sinners writhing beneath the Tree
The Seder as the Last Supper, or the First
The Philosopher suggests there is an Omega Point -
But I don’t seem to have a map
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's
Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Eating
Biblically 4
Eat kosher meats, legumes, and
barley,
But not exoskeletals; they’re so
gnarly!
