Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
The Leader of the Free World Aboard His Chariot of the Gods
When the food truck speeds off, making a run
Just think of it as our majestic Air Force One
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Poets Speak of Hay
For Nat Lipstadt, Ken Pepiton, VerseBuster, and Billy
Collins
I was raised on a farm
Which did me no harm
But bales of hay
And stacks of hay
Pitching hay
Filling the old pickup
with hay
And a trailer of hay
Hay and hay and more
hay
In the heat of each midsummer
day
Day after day after
day
(You may channel
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner here)
The old barn full of
hay Hot, musty, fusty, allergenic hay
Day after musty,
fusty, allergenic day
Hot day, hot, hot, hot
every da®ned day
You may
Have my hay
As Dimitri Karamazov
did not say
"A ticket for hay? I herewith return my
ticket!"
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Night of the Murdered Poets, 12 August 1952
Not a poem, just a plea:
Of your mercy please pray for the repose of the souls
of all people murdered for their witness to truth
The Night of the Murdered Poets – For Reading Addicts
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
The Girl with the Pearl Nose Ring
Not from Vermeer
“Girls purty as me
Shouldn’t have to work for a livin’
That’s what men are for”
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
That Famous
Participation Trophy
One hears of that participation trophy-trope
A theme, a meme, mostly by cranky old men
Withered gaffer-gossips condemning the young
For being rewarded simply for showing up
Like Santa Claus it might be a good idea
I still listen for sleigh bells every Christmas
And yet – I have never seen a participation trophy
If you find one, call; you have my number
And, speaking of unearned rewards,
We’re presented a trophy each morning, just for fun
When God gives each of us a golden sun!
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
For the Feast of Saint Lawrence
Today
is the Feast of Saint Lawrence
His
faith and martyrdom we already knew
We remember
his death with a sense of abhorrence -
