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
Tag: Poetry
Maybe Winter is Tired
The paling sun drops coldly in the west –
False spring in its own turn now takes a rest
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 11 – The Legend of Stone Mountain Part 3
By Joshua David Ling … “I know you’re just a legend. / An echo of one that was. / Harbingella is just an evil woman. / Amy is more because / Harbingella doesn’t really live anymore…
Read MoreGuardians 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…
Read MoreGuardians Of Atlanta Episode 8 – The Freakshow And The Eclipse
By Joshua David Ling … But I hear her evil calling me. / And I cannot turn away. / Save me please, oh Marlynn, my angel! / Please show me the way!
Read MoreGuardians Of Atlanta Episode 7 – Mirror: The Blessed Twin
By Joshua David Ling … Three Knights stood in her room spread out, / One grabbed her mouth from behind. / She tried to fight back as best she could, / But this plan was perfectly designed. / She suddenly felt tired and looked down to see / A needle in her arm.
Read MoreNegotiating Toilet Paper
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Dignity, like treaties, can be broken In many ways…
Read MoreGuardians Of Atlanta Episode 6 – Crusader: Leader Of The Guardians
By Joshua David Ling … A purple mist filled the room as William grabbed his sword Knox. / He stood by the doorway, fully prepared, because he had no locks.
Read MoreSo Fast Thou Growest
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Happy children playing in a roadside ditch / Barefoot and laughing in shorts and tees / A boy grabbing up a frog to frighten the girls/ A girl sloshing the boys with a bucket of muck
Read MoreBecause They Are Young
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Little children attend the school of Creation: / A stick, a caterpillar upon a leaf / A pine nut spiraling down upon its wing / A yellow butterfly dancing autumn in
Read MoreHobbit Day
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … I read that today is Hobbit Day / On the autumn equinox every year…
Read MoreLaundry Day – The Solemnity of All Stains
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … The washing machine baptizes our busy days: / A shirt freshly stained with this morning’s coffee / Wrinkledy tees in grimy greens and greys / A child’s blue jeans all sticky with toffee
Read MoreMake Thee Another Self
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … After the Order of Saint Joseph, all men are fathers / Commanded by God to protect all children / Permitted by God to protect all children / Empowered by God to protect all children
Read MoreHoly Smokes: Habemus Papem
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Latins and Sabines may have watched for smoke / From the Vatican Hill across the way / Wondering if a careless shepherd had set a fire / Beyond the Seven Hills of holy Rome
Read MoreFragments of Life and Literature
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … We have mysterious runic messages still / Appearing this morning – there, on the road – see them?
Read MoreFragments of Life
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … The seasons pass and footsteps pass, leaves fall / But nothing changes for those frozen in place / By the decrees of stasis and stagnancy / Progress blocked by torpidity and time
Read MoreWe Know Where The Holy Grail Is
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … We know where the Holy Grail is / Each Sunday we see it on the Altar / As a cup, indifferent in its origins / In the catalogue of a church supply…
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