An excerpt from "The Force of Poetry"; a poetry reading and talk on the meaning, mechanics and significance of poetry. Endorsed by Maine Public Broadcasting. Find the entire film on DVD at...

Some driver cut me off in my commute. I swore. At work I told a friend still mad. Said she, "I scream 'God bless you'." I fell mute, incredulous, then foolish, hopeless, sad. 'God BLESS...

Ghosts
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

Coming to terms with the tricks our minds play, fact or fiction? From what perspective are the dots connected? Patterns of...

Just stop and listen. Don't you have some song or other all day running 'round your brain? Why THAT tune? Each one driving me insane. Some dawns I think: "Did THAT go all night long?" And...

Constantine Cavafy 1863-1933, Greek poet living most of his life in Alexandria. This is probably my favourite of Cavafy's poems, the one where the mundane and the divine most closely intermingle....

Democracy is…
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

A vigilante roller coaster herding cats into a river crossing of troubled
waters to take a bath in objective...

Broken Puppet
By MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

There are strings and there are… strings.
Threads of silk and steel, of hand me down love and rusty angst...

Truths Obituary
By MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

Blood can be washed off the hands,
but the soul is stained and weary.
There is no truth in competing...

A Million Troubles
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

If you won a million troubles,
would you spend them on a friend?
Buy some misery in a bottle
...