By Laurence "Mack" Hall Word Count: 80 Rating: G Summary: Rosaries and ball point pens, both very useful in communication. Rosaries might be like ball-point pensA souvenir for you from Brighton BeachFabrique en Chine,…
By Lawrence “Mack” Hall Word Count: 80 Rating: G Summary: a short poem reflecting on Luke 24:13-35 The road from Emmaus is not in the book Emmaus isn’t even on the map Still, people walk…
Why are there now so many books of lists of ten things we must do before we die? Why not nine, or eleven? And why should pay someone for a list of experiences he says…
While isolated in my rural estate here along Beer Can Road and County Dump Extension, I have been dragging hoses, reading Robert Frost, saying bad things about the ‘possums pillaging my vegetable garden, and considering…
For Inky and Jason “Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia.” - St. Ambrose of Milan Where Peter was, there also was the Tomb -- Blood-sodden dreams cold-rotting in old sin, The Chalice left unwashed, the Upper Room…
Lawrence “Mack” Hall Word Count: 110 Rating: G Summary: A poem of a small child in church She was restless in Mass, a three-years’ child And in her patient father’s loving arms She wriggled She…
By Mack Hall Word Count: 89 Rated: G Summary: A poem about simple study as worship. “…but with true prayers That shall be up at heaven and enter there” -Measure for Measure II.ii.151-152 A study…
For Reverend Raphael Barousse, OSB - Father Raph - Uncle Bubby - on His Birthday By Lawrence "Mack" Hall Word Count: 205 Rating: G Summary: A poem to an aging yet forever-young priest Introibo ad altare…
My Caesar and my Empire have I served, A diplomatic functionary, true To distant duties, and never unnerved By greedy Greek or perfidious Jew. Outside the arca archa have I thought, Festooned my desk and…
Long-fallen stars and quarrelling lords must wait For seasons upon seasons to pass in flight Seasons, and Feasts upon a Table set Untasted by sleepers, and winged away But, exiles, you may taste of mercy…
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