Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Nonsense Rhymes for Nonsense Times - a poor attempt at senryu
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Nonsense Rhymes for Nonsense Times
Literary chat:
Basho’s frog, Schrodinger’s cat
There’s truth in all that
A Comma-nist Manifesto - poem about comma usage
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
A Comma-nist Manifesto
Like tiny
little tadpoles, commas are fun
Randomly swimming
in a pool of words
Feeding on
microscopic organisms -
They might
grow up to be dictionaries
Unless
they are devoured by an A.I.
Do Oxford
commas wear tiny Cambridge shoes?
Or do they
simply float about, separating clauses
As
commanded by Fowler1, but not by a fisher
Commas
will mend a certain grammatical flaw
Lest “Let’s
eat, Grandma!” become “Let’s eat Grandma!”2
1 Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Oxford University Press,
many editions
2 Possibly every language teacher has employed this old wheeze.
Everyone Has a Dream - not really a poem
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Everyone Has a Dream
He wants
his head set atop Mount Rushmore1
I think
that’s a fine idea
1 Six Grandfathers Mountain
The Gospel According to the Ladies' Altar Society - poem
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
The Gospel According to the Ladies’ Altar Society
The announcement for and the exposition of
The Ladies’ Altar Society Craft Fair and Sale
Should not last longer than the homily
A Full Moon at Goodwill - rhyming couplet
Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
A Full Moon at Goodwill
As I was
giving the housewares a pass
A fat man
dropped his shorts to scratch his ***
A Dignified Transfer - poem
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
A Dignified Transfer
Shocky and stunned, ears ringing in the sudden silence
Trembly hands scooping up meaty body parts
Meaty body parts, sticky blood, greedy flies
All into a baggy, a zippered body bag
A dignified transfer
A curvy fragment of skull, some kid’s curly hair
Is that…? yes…he was so funny…don’t think about it
The living already dusted off, the dead remain
Can we get them out tonight? I dunno, man
A dignified transfer
The president will execute his practiced salute
In a dignified transfer
after the 18th hole
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