The Spirit of Art - very short poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

The Spirit of Art

 

Is

 

The good, the true, the beautiful

 

Not

 

The sullen, the resentful, the envious

Smoke Drifting Across America - poem

  

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Smoke Drifting Across America

 

“Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live” 

Columbia campus protester apologises for 'kill Zionists' comments (bbc.com)

 

Ash-grey smoke drifts across America

 

          “That’s a false narrative”

          “That’s a false narrative”

          “That’s a false narrative”

 

The narrative is metaphorical; the smoke is real -

Ashes and smoke from Auschwitz, from burning Jews

The Governor of South Dakota Takes a Shot at the Vice-Presidency - doggerel

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 The Governor of South Dakota Takes a Shot at the Vice-Presidency

                        Who is South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem? Dog controversy, more to know (usatoday.com)

Blazing a trail of death and bloody fur

She shot her dog, her goat, three horses too

Somehow they failed her, and so, we must concur  

She executed them in a bloody coup

When her family's animals disappoint her

She shoots them; she feels that’s her duty to do

Silencing each substandard bark, bleat, and purr -

Now what if she becomes disappointed in 

                                                you?

Let's Meet Again Next Week or Next Life - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Let’s Meet Again Next Week or Next Life

 

Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 32

 

To ask to be remember’ed is good

Both for the humble asker and for the asked -

For both will pause to consider mortality

And both will pause to enjoy the happy now

 

We understand this world will pass away

That all created things must collapse and die

And yet we are promised them back again

And each other too, in saecula saeculorum

 

Then, yes, please, do remember me, if you would -

To ask to be remember’ed is good

Let Us Proceed to Sonnet 32 - poem

  

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Let Us Proceed to Sonnet 32

 

Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 31

 

There is a reason why Boris Pasternak

Did not recite Shakespeare’s Sonnet 31

To the Soviet Writers’ Conference in ’37 -

 

It’s a mess

Let Us Proceed to Sonnet 32 - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Let Us Proceed to Sonnet 32

 

Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 31

 

There is a reason why Boris Pasternak

Did not recite Shakespeare’s Sonnet 31

To the Soviet Writers’ Conference in ’37 -

 

It’s a mess

While Clenching Their Fisties - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

While Clenching Their Fisties

 

Old men do not now argue politics

At the coffee table in the grocery store

Old men, like some university students

Simply say what they are ordered to say

 

By voices bellowing from Orwellian telescreens

 

While clenching their Trumpy-grumpy fisties