A Deer and I Surprised Each Other
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Silence
We paused
We looked
She leaped
Category: Poetry
Your Heart as a Tabernacle
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … The heart is a tabernacle upon the Altar
Within it reposes our hopes and dreams
Who Is My Favorite Hero?
Do you now, or have you ever…
Worked double shifts or double jobs to pay the bills
Read to your children instead of yelling at them
Had to jump-start your car in the pre-dawn cold…
Surgical Dreams
Under anesthesia,
there’s no REM sleep.
Yet, what’s recalled sure does loom large…
By William S. Kilgore
A Garden is a Department of Metaphysics
A garden is a Department of Metaphysics
Promethean fire and shadows in a cave of light…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
Foul Feelings
My conscience carries cancerous care.
A horribly heavy load my heart does bear…
By Jordan Ellis Christensen
Time
Time marches ever on,
Moving on silent feet,
Sometimes running, sometimes walking,
Quiet as a thief…
By Sarah Losardo
Easter Snap
On Easter Monday even an undiscovered egg
Seems to shiver under the blue-streaked sky at dawn…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
A Few Spring Poems
The Lion-Winds of March
Wild winds now rise to a Valkyrie’s strength
And dark clouds roar to the hammer of Thor…
By Lawrence Hall
Holy Week
We make a muddle of Lent and Holy Week
Because we’ve made a muddle of our lives…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
A Few Winter Poems
The cold has gotten old without Christmas trees
And little lights in all their vestmental tints
No longer counterpoint the dark northern breeze…
By Lawrence, “Mack in Texas” Hall
About a Question Pontius Pilate Asks of Himself
The epistemology of epistemology
Folds back on itself with a supplemental twist…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
A Boyhood Friend Goes Down To The River
They listened to the waters and the winds
One more lesson from the river, the eternal flow
Maybe Winter is Tired
The paling sun drops coldly in the west –
False spring in its own turn now takes a rest
No, It Wasn’t The Medications
We did meet again, and we did smile
And so, just so, we all will meet again…
By Lawrence Hall
Pale Shadows and Seasons
Pale shadows and seasons and leaves drift by
The slanting sun of February falls…
By Lawrence Hall
A Rotor-Tiller and the Feast of the Presentation
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Names have not been restored, as Aslan says / Some are pleased to call this Ground-Hog Day / Although there are no ground hogs here / But the Presentation is everywhere and forever
Read MoreResolution for a New Year – or for a New Life, and Cuddled up with Cold Medicine and a Warm Dachshund
By Mack in Texas
Perhaps dear old Puddleglum, who burnt his feet
When stamping out the fires of wickedness
Made a fine new year’s resolution with
“I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can.”
Guardians Of Atlanta Episode 10 – The Legend of Stone Mountain Part 2
By Joshua David Ling … “O’er the hills and through the pain, / Where I will be Witch-Queen again, / I command and this body obeys, / Over the hills and gone always!”
Read MoreGuardians Of Atlanta Episode 9 – The Legend of Stone Mountain Part 1
By Joshua David Ling … Over the last chapters of this story, / We saw heroes and heroines in fantastic glory. / From Cyrus the Cyclone, to Bobby the Magician. / To William the Knight, and Amira the bless’d twin…
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