Posing for Selfies at the Foot of the Cross
By Mack Hall Word Count: 77 Rated: PG-13 for thematic imagery Summary: A short poem about the fallen nature of the world. A Doctor Mengele can cut and sew (more…)
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If in a Desert
By Mack Hall Word Count: 80 Rating: G Summary: This world is like a desert, we must find our roses. If in a desert live we, still, we live And our recusant duty is to…
“And Still to Their Goal the Rivers Go”
By Lawrence “Mack” Hall Word Count: 90 Rating: G Summary: a short poem of change, titled after Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 That which is said to come already is And was, and so will be again – the…
The Ikon Corner
By Lawrence "Mack" Hall Word Count: 167 Rating: G Summary: A short poem of ikons/icons “…and looking at a picture on the opposite wall.” -C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader …
Holbein’s Portrait of Saint Thomas More In an Aural Halo of Electronic Pings from Rental Earphones
By Lawrence “Mack” Hall Word Count: 155 Rating: G Summary: the author looks at a painting of Thomas More while listening to a explanatory recording. The (beep) painting (beep) dates (beep, beep) from (beep) Holbein’s…
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Admires Himself: A Review of “A Precocious Autobiography”
Only in Russia is poetry respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder? ~ attributed to Osip Mandelstam Recently I finished a book only…
Abbey St. Joseph – Vespers
By Mack Hill Word Count: 80 Rating: G Summary: Prayers at the end of the day. Dusk rises from the dark and dewy grass And sweet bells sing to end the workman’s day, To call…
Autumn Night Across the Border Wire
I. How wonderful to sleep in a soft, warm bed Beneath a roof against the blowing night Of wind and rain rattling each window pane As winter falls upon this weary world The busy-ness of…
Under the Shadow-Tree
By Lawrence "Mack" Hall Word Count: 119 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: A poem for Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day Author's Note: For David Jones, 1895-1974, Poet, Artist, Pte., Royal Welch Fusiliers *** "One can…