Saturday, August 17, 2024

Thunderstorm, Texas-Louisiana Border, 15 August 2024, Photo 4


 

Thunderstorm, Texas-Louisiana Border, 15 August 2024, Photo 3


 

Thunderstorm, Texas-Louisiana Border, 16 August 2024, Photograph 2


 

Thunderstorm, Texas-Louisiana Border, 16 August 2024, Photograph 2

 


Where do Sunflowers go in August? - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Where do Sunflowers go in August?

 

 

May our love for the Sun, the will of God, be as strong as the sunflower’s…

 

-attributed to St. John of Tobolsk

 

 

With the mower I took the sunflowers down

The withered remnants, stalks and heads and seeds

Those few remaining seeds rejected by the birds

For reasons of their own

 

With the mower I circled ‘round and round

Building a thickish thatch as a sort of nest

For seeds in anticipation of autumn

The seasons know their own

 

With the mower I saw high summer gone

I mowed – or had I mown?

Thursday, August 15, 2024

The Gravitas of Our Vice-Presidential Candidates - a poem, but not a very good one

  

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

The Gravitas of Our Vice-Presidential Candidates

 

In the end it was the worst speaker of the lot who received the most applause. People made no effort to follow him and merely roared approval at his every word…

 

Doctor Zhivago, p. 36

 

Like high school boys behind the old school gym

In micturic dispute about distance and size

Two men exchange puerile scurrilities

A pair of puffed-up potty-mouthed posers

 

They know all about army guns ‘n’ stuff

Each hero manque’ stuffier than the other

About their ranks and tanks and thousand-yard-stares

And whose AR is the bigger one

 

Like high school boys behind the old school gym –

And why must we the people put up with them?

Monday, August 12, 2024

Four Fresh Limes - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Four Fresh Limes

 

When my neighbor left four fresh limes at my door

The universe did not hold its breath




Will CBS Now Broadcast from Fox Studios? - poem

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