Tuesday, March 17, 2026

He Could Have Bench-Pressed a Honda - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Home - Hello Poetry

 

He Could Have Bench-Pressed a Honda

 

In his youth he could have bench-pressed a Honda

He posed with cheerleaders whom he was quite fond of

One seated on each arm, his muscles to flout

In photographs their grandchildren now wonder about

 

On the field of sport he could do it all –

His forward passes like lightning would fall

Many a massive lineman fell to his block

And many a quarterback to his gentle knock

 

He was the class stud; I was the class fool

He’s now a janitor at our old school

 

(And I’m still a fool…)

Saturday, March 7, 2026

We Haven’t Seen Good Ol’ Charlie Brown in a While - poem

  

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Home - Hello Poetry

 

We Haven’t Seen Good Ol’ Charlie Brown in a While

 

Schroeder tickles the ivories for easy-listenin’

In the Gold Room over at the Airport Inn

Linus is Teacher of the Year at the middle school

Marcie built a chain of prosperous boutiques

 

Lucy waits tables at Franklin’s Lounge DeLuxe

Carefully counting her tips and tattoos

Frieda’s Kuts ‘n’ Kurls features the best gossip

Peppermint Patty is a professor at Penn State

 

We haven’t seen good ol’ Charlie Brown

 

Not since the district court judge pronounced his sentence:

“Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-WAH.”

Kristi Noem's Deportation Flight - doggerel

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Home - Hello Poetry

 

Kristi’s Deportation Flight

 

The president decided that she

Is a clear and present pain

She needs to go away, said he

(But does she get to keep the plane?)

Inertia, and It's all Your Fault - poem

 Lawrence Hall

mhall46184@aol.com


Inertia, and It’s all Your Fault

 

Draggy all through the sugar-cream-coffeed morning

Drowsing over a book while the lawnmower yawns

Idling over the news while the grass laughs at me

Ignored by the weeds in their insolent rows

 

Calvin and his work ethic haunt my idleness

Impatiently urging me to bestir myself

And accomplish something meaningful

In tending the Garden God has given

 

But

 

I think

 

I’ll doze in this lawn chair and dream of you -

After all, what else would you have me do?


Sunday, February 22, 2026

About a Question Pontius Pilatus asks of Himself - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Home - Hello Poetry

 

About a Question Pontius Pilatus asks of Himself

 

The epistemology of epistemology

Folds back on itself with a supplemental twist

To lose itself for the first time again

As a collapsed inflation of nothingness

 

Artificial ignorance regards a void

Densely vacuumed in heavy light

And pronounces it the truth of lies

A dragon-bridge crossing nothing at all

 

It’s on the InterGossip; it must be true

Existence voided in a nonexistential coup

Lunch with my Daughter - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

Home - Hello Poetry

 

Lunch with My Daughter

 

If Cinderella had been an attorney

The Ellis County Courthouse would have been her castle

A little stone Babel of balconies and turrets

Swimming up to a Southwest Airlines jet

 

We sat at an outdoor table across the street

A small cafĂ©’ - Butter & Grace – The Mini

Which we renamed Beurre & Grace – Le Mini

And savoured a light lunch and the cool spring day

 

We savoured music, lunch, a busy street

And watched the peoples of Texas en paseo

Oscars 2026 - Specimens in a Glass Cage: poem

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