Lawrence Hall, HSG
Another Argument Against the Death Penalty
Each one of us is a murderer
To someone else whose memory is long
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Another Argument Against the Death Penalty - short poem
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Ordinary Time and Advent: A Diptych or a Dipstick or something - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Ordinary
Time and Advent: as a Diptych or a Dipstick or Something
I. The Last Day in
Ordinary Time
Time is not at all ordinary, of course
It is an ordinal of flowing days
Whose current in its journey swims among
The well-marked seasons of sacred observances
Advent into and through Christmas and its promise
Lent into and through Easter and its fulfillment
Cycles of seasons, penance, and merry feasts
Each as a step in the great dance of Creation
All seasons echo God’s eternal rhyme
Blessing our senses with His created time
II. This is When
You Light That First Candle Against Darkness
Ordinary Time is now as summer’s lost leaves
Autumn has fallen into fogs and frosts
Pale sunshine flickers from shallow angles all day
Marking out the road to Bethlehem
Before the Altar in the parish church
A wreath is set with four candles to light
The first one today and a second next week
A third, a fourth, and then at last the Stable
The Stable at last, where the universe sings
The happy Desire of all our wanderings
Friday, November 29, 2024
Parliament Approves of death for Christmas - rhyming doggerel
Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Parliamentary Validation of Guy Fawkes
The death-penalty ban has been reversed
But will members of Parliament want to go first?
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The Mostest Magicalist Familiestest Christmas Ever - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
The Mostest
Magicalist Familiestest Christmas Ever
She will make this the most magical family Christmas ever
With the perfect tree
The perfect gifts
The perfect table
The perfect meal
The perfect ambience
The perfect decorations
A memory worthy of inclusion in a Hallmark movie
She will make this the most magical family Christmas ever
No matter how many children she reduces to tears for it
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Algebra is not in the Bible - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Algebra is not in the Bible
Jesus never said unto us, “Solve for X”
If algebra were real, the apostolic succession
Of bishops would have told us about it
(After 2,000 years of committee meetings)
I miss Bob Newhart
Saturday, November 23, 2024
You are Civilization's Quiet Contemplative - poem
Lawrence
Hall, HSG
You are Civilization’s Quiet Contemplative
I send Love’s name into the world with
wings
-Thomas Merton, “A Psalm”
Into your
pocket you slip a volume of verse
To feel and
smell and breathe the words of others
And paper and
pen are ready to your hand
To limn an
errant dream as it whispers by
You take a
roadside turning known only to you
Recusing yourself
from busy-ness for awhile
To sigh
upon a grassy bank and simply be
And rescue civilization
from itself
With words
you embrace the entirety of life
(But don’t
forget your British Army Knife)
Still Listening to the Warm - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Still Listening to the Warm
Rod McKuen was the coolest of the cool
And now he’s not
Which makes him warmer than ever
On the pencil-marked pages of our youth
“Listen to the Warm” is still good advice
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