Strelnikov is Still Wrong
By Lawrence Hall Word Count: 130 Rating: G Summary: a poem based on the words from Doctor Zhivago “I used to admire your poetry…I shouldn't admire it now. I should find it absurdly personal. Don't…
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The Poets Have Been Remarkably Silent on the Subject of Firewood
By Lawrence Hall Word Count: 93 Rating: G Summary: A poem about firewood as not many poems are about them (as Chesterton did not say) “…’on back…’on back…’on back…WHOA! Kill the motor.” Leaning on the side…
When We Flew Among the Stars
By Lawrence Hall Word Count: 83 Rating: G Summary: A poem of Childhood When we were children we lay in the grass And counted the stars, but only up to A hundred or so, because…
Russian Children on Christmas Eve
RUSSIAN CHILDREN ON CHRISTMAS EVE By Lawrence Hall Word count: 86 Rating: G Summary: How a child sees Christmas. Good children dress warmly to watch for the star The star of Bethlehem, the shepherds’ star…
Little Plastic Army Men Campaigning on a Snow Day
~ by Lawrence "Mack" Hall If I were a boy I’d range my toy soldiers before the fire Vast armies of plastic in green and grey With the cannon blasting the enemy - A glorious…
The World Held in Your Hands
THE WORLD HELD IN YOUR HANDS By Lawrence Hall Word count: 93 Rating: G Summary: A poetic description of the Rosary. A little bead between your fingers slips And then another, and another yet Linked…
Last Sunday After Pentecost
By Lawrence Hall Word Count: 124 Rating: G Summary: A poem of the triumph of the season of Advent over winter. A calling-crow-cold sky ceilings the world Lowering the horizon to itself, All silvery and…
Why Do We Write?
“Beauty will save the world.”* -Dostoyevsky If we accept that art helps us reveal The hidden structures of the universe As beauty transcendent in color and form Harmonious truth in music, word, and dance Then…
False Spring
By Lawrence Hall Word Count: Rating: G Summary: A poem about the "January thaw." No spring is false when warm, sweet sunlight falls Upon the weathered field and woods and walls And frogs shake off…
A New Dawn of Freedom
A NEW DAWN OF FREEDOM By Lawrence Hall Word count: 83 Rating: G Summary: The poet dedicates the New Year to Christian virtues, rather than the old Pagan ones. A new dawn of freedom? May…