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A Certain Ancestor - poem

Lawrence Hall

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A Certain Ancestor

Yes, sir,

When God made him

God broke the mold

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Lawrence Hall, HSG: United States; 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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Poems about War
Poems about Weather
Poems about Winter
Poems based on Tolkien
Poems for Easter
Poems Three Times Each Day
Poet Just Look at You
Poetic You
Poetry
Poetry about Hubris
Poetry about Prison
Poetry about the Night Shift
Poetry About Tyranny
Poetry About Unstable Governments
Poetry about Vanity
Poetry about Work
Poetry and Jazz Stroll into a Smoky Bar
Poetry is an Uncommon Good
Poets Speak of Hay
Political Slurs
Politics and the Public Square
Poll Workers
Polysyllabic Aspirational Bourgeois Vanity
Port aux Basques
Porta Coeli poem
Portrait of Monsieur Gaudry and His Daughter
Power Outage with Dog
Prancing Chainsaw Dude
Presidential Immunity
Primrose-Cat and the Circle of Lunch
Prison Poetry
Prisoners Working in the Early Morning Rain
Ptolemaic System
Public Executions
Pushing the Envelope
Pushkin the Poetic Cat
Randolph Scott at the Saturday Matinee on my Birthday
Rao's Bakery
Read Within Your Academic Discipline
Reader Responses in the U. K. DAILY MAIL
Reading Basho on a Rainy Morning
Reading the Magna Carta Will Make Us Smarter
Reading the Room
Reality Will See You Now
Recruit Training
Red Red Wine
Red Spider Lilies
Reed Shaken with the Wind
Reichskirche
Religious Apps
Remember the Porter”
Remember the Sabbath Praying with the Reicheskirche
Remembrance of Poetry Magazines Past
Resettlement in the East
Resettlement to the East on Kristi's Personal Prisoner Airline
Resolution for a New Year or for a New Life
Restricted Area
Riding to the Sound of the Guns
River Gunboats
Robert Conn
Rod McKuen
Route 66 Ends in a Used-Car Lot
Rowan Pelling
Runes Recently Discovered
Sailor's Creek 1865
Saint George
Saint Matthew 11
Saint Michael's Orthodox Church Beaumont
Saint Tibbs Day
Saint Tibbs Day Songbook
Saint Vincent Ferrer and I Go Fishing in a Toilet Tank
Sam Quinones
Sappho
Scenes from a Funeral Home Calendar Featuring a Decidedly English Jesus
Schrodinger's Cat
Schrodinger's Constitution
Schrodinger's Turtle
Scorn not the Haiku as Wordsworth did not Say
Scriptural Textual Analysis Applied to Act II of Macbeth
SECOND WORLD WAR POEMS
Second World War Veterans
Secret Service and Barney Fife
Sending Login Code
Sevin (R) Insect Killer Deceptive Packaging
Shakespeare and a Washing Machine
Shakespeare Behold a Man
Shakespeare Sonnet 14
Shakespeare Sonnet 16
Shakespeare Sonnet 18
Shakespeare Sonnet 19
Shakespeare Sonnet 21
Shakespeare Sonnet 27
Shakespeare Sonnet 28
Shakespeare Sonnet 29
Shakespeare Sonnet 3
Shakespeare Sonnet 30
Shakespeare Sonnet 31
Shakespeare Sonnet 32
Shakespeare Sonnet 39
Shakespeare Sonnet 5
Shakespeare Sonnet 6
Shakespeare Sonnet 7
Shakespeare Sonnet 8
Shakespeare Venus and the Travelling Salesman
She Sings to Us
She Thinks My Tractor's Schleppy
She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
Shelley
Shimmering Summer Sun
Short Shrift Long Shrift Everybody's Gotta Shrift
Show Me Who You Read
Sir Philip Sidney
Sirach 17:1-15
Sitting by an Escape Hatch During the Funeral
Six Grandfathers Mountain
SK3 Thomas of Knoxville Tennessee
Slide Rule
Smart Watch
Smart*ss Watch
Smoke Drifting Across America
Sneeze Across Texas
SNL: Because Men Who Abuse Women are so Amusing
So Fast Thou Grow'st
So I Got to Pikes Peak
So This is the New Year
Some Clinical Notes on Anaesthesia and Like StuffZZZZ
Some Poor Rhymes for Easter
Somewhere in New Mexico I Tipped a Waitress 25%
Somewhere in Syria There is a You
Soups as a Medium of Exchange
Southeast Texas Alerting Network Adventures in Registration
Spaghetti models
Spectrum
Stand-To for Night Patrol
Standing the Test of Time Quatrain
Still Listening to the Warm
Stop Running
Stopping by Literary Interpretations on a Snowy Evening
Strawberry Moon
street evangelists
Street Preachers
Such Men Will Someday Live in Palaces
Summer Solstice
Sumy Ukraine
Sunday Morning Jesus with a Bullhorn
Sunshine is Dogshine
Suntan
Surgery in Three Parts
Swiss Army Knife
Taking a Stab at Cultural Appropriation
Tea
Tea for Texas
Teaching a bible in Public Schools
Technology is a Two-Edged Carrot Grater
Teilhard de Chardin
Tejas y Libertad para Siempre
Tell Me About Your Day
Tennyson
Texas A & M and Mickey Mouse's Dog
Texas Children Die Texas Authorities Babble
Texas Rangers
Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter
Thanksgiving
That Famous Participation Trophy
THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH
That Old Loudmouth at Every Meeting
That To-Go Coffee Ain't Goin'
That Which was Mandatory is Now Forbidden
The 1970s When Lapels Roamed Wild
The Apex Predator
The Back of the Wardrobe
The Bishop of Rome and an A I Tower of Babel
The Bond Girls are Grannies Now
The Book on Your Bedside Table
The Boy in White
The Boy Who Wasn't There
The Brass-Elevator Mountaineer
The Bright Green Wheelie-Bin
The Church Garage Sale
The Cold Has Gotten Old
The Cold Kept Me in Today
The Coming Ice Storm
The Cosmic Inertia of a Six-Pound Dachshund
The Crown of Rachel
The Curse - of the - Dramatic - Dash
The Dignity of the Office (doggerel re Mr. Trump)
The Dime Store Philosophy of Khalil Gibran
The Disinterment of Pablo Neruda
The Distinct Click of a Zippo Cigarette Lighter
The Doomsday Clock and Watch Collection
The Door of my Subaru Popped Out at 10
The Doorkeeper of Notre Dame
The Drudge (POPUP) Report is (POPUP) Crushin’ (POPUP) Itself
The Drum-Song of the Cicada
The Empire of the Snail
The End of August and the Dragon is Here
The Evil of Banality Arrests You in the Street
The Fairies Themselves Now Dance Sweet Summer In
The First Barn-Jacket Morning in Autumn
The First Casualty of War
The Flag and the Fourth Amendment flown at Half-Mast Down at the Post Office
The Fort Worth Police Department Dirty-Pictures Squad
The French Government Collapses
The Galaxy's Guide to the Hitchhiker
The Gates of Hell & Ur F8v Bible Slogan Tee
The Gates of Kiev are Smoke-Poisoned Skies
The Girl with the Pearl Nose Ring
The God of Children and Blueberries
The Golden Gate of Jerusalem
The Gospel According to the Ladies' Altar Society
The Governor of South Dakota Takes a Shot at the Vice-Presidency
The Grave Robber of Fifth Avenue
The Gravitas of Our Vice-Presidential Candidates
The Great Gate of Kiev
The Great Replacement Theory
The Great Riding Lawnmower Chase
The Guy Who Bit the Head off a Bat
The Hate in Orwell’s 1984 was only Two Minutes
The Haunted Electric Toothbrush
The Holy Bible as a Base for a Potted Plant
The Holy Eucharist and Then Apple Butter
The InterGossip is a Content Cop
The Intoxicating Poetry of Belief
The Jordan and the Chao Pray
The Kid Who Won the Lottery
The Kittens Come on Little Fog Feet
The Last American Westclox Baby Ben
The Last Nights of Club Ozymandias
The Latest Atmospheric River End-of-the-World Pineapple Express Bomb Cyclone from H**l
The Laughing Altar Girl
The Leader of the Free World Aboard His Chariot of the Gods
The Leaker Demands Informers
The List is Death
The Little Sisters of the Enneagram
The Manifest Destiny of Cooking Shows
The Modern Science of Imprisoned Sound
The Moon is Upon Her Throne Tonight
The Most Embarrassed Young Father in All of Christendom
The Mostest Magicalist Familiestest Christmas Ever
The Mysterious World of Azalea
The New Air Force One
The New Pastor Threatens the Congregation with Guitars
The New Poets of England and America
The O Antiphons the Star and Us
The Parlement of Foules and The Parliament of Fools
The Poets of Rapallo Review
The Poets Speak of American Elections
The President of Columbia University is Saddened
The Presumption in Wake-Up Calls
The Problems with Self-Publishing
The Romance of the Boeing 707
The Ruby-Throated Grand Scheme of Things
The Rural Electric Co-Op's Giant Christmas Tree
The Seafarer
The Secret of Dolly Parton's Angel Wings - rhyming couplet
The Seven Seeing-Stones
The Several Olympic Committees Rhyming Doggerel
The Shroud of Turin is True Again Today! Or Maybe Not!
The Spirit of Art (Catchy
The State Religion in Texas
The Strange Adventure of Tarzan the Epsteinian Files and The Burn-Bags of Opar
The Stray 'Possum Cafe
The Stray Dog Cafe
The Stray Dog Cafe Saint Petersburg
The Summer of All Fears
The Sunday Evening News in a Time of Elections
The Terrifying Creepy Chilling Iconic Sniper’s Lair
The Texas Sanhedrin
The Transcience of Technology
The United Nations - or not
The United States Postal Service is Holding my Mail Hostage in Exchange for my Credit Card Number
The United States Postal Service Opens Your Packages for You
The University of Granddaddy
The Unnatural Abhor a Vacuum
The USS Doris Miller - a Tall Ship for a Tall Man
The Voices are Talking about Nat
The White House Inaugural Banquet and the Idle Dishwashing Machine
The White Lady of the Well
The Wind Drove the Pages Wild
The World's Fresh Ornaments
The World's Tallest Wooden Skyscraper
Their Ephemeral Temples Look Much the Same
There are no Foreign Accents in Texas
There is More Than One Book
There's an Old Sheriff in Town
There's Husbandry in Heaven
There's Nothing Old to Write About the Moon
Therefore
These Here So-Called Schools These Days
These Professors
They Knew What They Signed Up For
They Learned To Code poem
They’ll Be Kissing Someone Else’s Boots Next Year
Thinking Outside the Box Bag or Other Sustainable Rain-Forest Ethically-Sourced Container
Third Cowboy from the Left
Third Sunday in Extraordinary Time
This Bird in the Hand is Also the Bird in the Bush
This is Not About a Casual Acquaintance Named Mohammed
This is not Who We Are
This is the Church House This is the Steeple
This Smart Watch Will Last
This Unit Not Labeled for Retail Sale
Thomas Merton
Those Who Stereotype Professors
Those Who Straddle the Temple Walls
Thoughts of Home from Behind the Wire
Three Hundred Tang Poems
Three Little Friends Who Spent the Day Playing in my Garden
Three Times in the Heart
TikTok
Time is not a Bloody Tyrant. Lawrence Hall
Time Will Play the Tyrant
Timex
Tiny Artists of the Night
To Accept Israel
To God Who Still Gives Joy to our Youth
Tod Mixson
Today Lake America Tomorrow the World!
Tom Swift of ICE and His Electric Gloves
Tomatoes and Midday Cicadas
Torah is Written with Flames
Toy Trains Grandmother's Good China and Children
Transubstantiation
Trapper-Keeper
Tree Frogs
Tropes Dopes and Culture Worriers
Trump Alienation of Canada
Trump Protest Poetry
Trump's God
Trump's Parade
Turning Over Parts of Poems with a Golden Shovel
Typewriter
Typewriter Telephone Dictionary Thesaurus
UC Memorial Hospital Colorado Springs
UK DAILY MAIL
Unconstitutional War
United Nations Walkouts
Unknown Saint - 25 Cents
Upon an Abomination in Paris
Upon Being Invited to a Zoom Meeting about Japanese Poetry
Upon Finding My Old Copy of PARADISE LOST
Upon Finding the flattened
Upon Re-Reading William L. Shirer's THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH
Upon the Return of Artifacts to Wounded Knee
Valkyrie Flight of the Lawn Chairs
Vam Co Tay
VerseBuster
Vice-President Kamala Harris’ Speech of Gratitude and Farewell to Her Faithful Followers in the Early Hours of 6 November 2024
Viet-Nam
Viet-Nam Veteran
Waiting for the Other Boot to Drop
Waiting-Room Art Same Old Bicycle Leaning Against the Same Old Sunlit Wall
Walk-In Shower Quotes
War Metaphor Guy
War Poetry
War Protest Poetry
Watching the Rain Without You
Waxahachie
We All Know Where the Holy Grail Is
We Are a Republic Much Like Haiti
We are All Children When We Attempt Haiku
We are All Pretty Much Exiles You Know
WE ARE AMERICANS WE BUY TOILET PAPER AND FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
We Are Offered Two Candidates for the Presidency
We Ask Everyone to Respect Our Family Privacy at This Time
We Can't Take Our Books with Us When We Die
We Don't Understand But We Hope
We Haven’t Seen Good Ol’ Charlie Brown in a While
We Need to Talk
We See Stories as We Walk
We Were Dressers of Sycamores
Weary with Dachshunds
Westclox
What Did He Say?
What Do Little 'Possums Dream Of?
What Do These Teachers Teach These Children in These Schools?
What Does an ICE Agent Do on His Day Off?
What Kind of God Needs a Bullhorn?
What Teachers Wipe With
What Time is it in Wal-Mart?
When a Book Banner's Books are Banned
When Alliteration and Peter Piper Go Bad
When Biologists Fall in Love
When Fortune and Men's Eyes are in Disgrace
When God made him He broke the mold
When I Was a Child I Saw a Dinosaur
When I was God's Latest and Best Creation
When I.C.E. Runs out of Immigrants
When She Sold Her Old Ford Mustange
When Teachers Fold Their Leathery Wings and Sleep
When the Death Penalty is Outsourced to Private Corporations
When to the Sessions of Sweet Noisy Thought
When You and Your Server are from Different Centuries
Where are the Frogs of Spring?
Where Do Our Dreams Go?
Where do Sunflowers go in August?
Where is Herod's Father?
Where my Parents were on 29 April 1944
Where We Grew Up is Not Where We Are
Where Words Matter More Than Noise
While Clenching Their Fisties
While Repairing a Widder-Woman's Door Locks
Whistling Past the Graveyard
White House Correspondents' Dinner 2026
White House Desecration
Who Gives a Fig?
Who is My Favorite Hero?
Who is the Third Murderer in Macbeth?
Who Shares Your Desk?
Who taught You to Tie Your Shoes?
Why Are the Presidential Candidates Yelling at Us?
Why Do They Say He was Tragically Murdered?
Why My (Famous Name Brand) Watch is Like a Petulant Child
Wild Insects I Have Known. Lawrence Hall
Will CBS Now Broadcast from Fox Studios?
Will He Borrow August Pinochet's Old Uniform?
Will We Be...Okay?
William Ernest Henley Never Owned a Snapper Lawnmower
William Tod Augustine Mixson
William Tod Mixson
Wipe That Geographical Expression Off Your Face
Within the Octave of Christmas
Wodehouse
Wordsworth
Working through University
Write for Yourselves This Song”
Years on the Night Shift
Yes But They Need Good Jobs in the Real World
Yevtushenko
You (formerly Known as You)
You are Civilization's Quiet Contemplative
You are not a Banana
You are Now Leaving the ******** Sector
You are the Poet and the Poem
You Have Never Voted for a President
You Were Dancing Up the Lane
You're Okay Buddy You're Gonna be Okay
You're the Best!
You've Read Your Last Free Article
YOUNG MAN!?
Your Changes Have Been Saved
Your Famous Name Brand Card Has Arrived!
Your Heart as a Tabernacle
Your Life is But a Login Code
Your Poem's Background Check
Your Words Your Way
Zoom Meetings
Zwickau

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