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Lawrence Hall Sep 2023
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Mhall46184@aol.com

           Everyone is Now a Two-Dimensional Religious Image

News writers are dull, almost catatonic
Dispensing metaphors soporifically phonic
For in their world of the cliched and ironic
Every topic, every person is invariably

                                                     ­       Iconic
Tired Metaphors
Lawrence Hall Oct 2020
Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

                           You Can’t Unpack a Poem

You can’t unpack a poem; it’s not your luggage
Or the metaphorical carry-on of your spirit
Homeland Security doesn’t search your poetry
It isn’t stamped “Passed by Inspector #3”

You can’t unpack a poem; it’s not even yours
If you read it, it was given to you
If you write it, you send it to the world
And beyond the world, out into the universe

You can never unpack a poem because
Poetry is not luggage - it is life
A poem is itself.
Lawrence Hall May 2019
Enough of gossamer!  Enough of it!
It’s just another word for spider ////!
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is:
Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com.
It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.

Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree:  The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.

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