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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Filler
Sometimes I feel like Im
Just filling space
Like a poem
In someones newspaper
Glanced over with
Morning coffee
And a piece of toast
Hoping and praying
That somehow I dont
Wind up, crumpled and stained
On the bottom of
Some cats litter box.
(Previously published in The Short North Gazette, Summer 2007)
Laurence Overmire
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Fingers (senryu)
Quiet like a dream
fingers sliding down my back
a soft breath exhales
(Previously published in Poems Md, Apr 2008)
Laurence Overmire
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Forbidden
A poem slid
Out of the socket of a skull
The slime of creations
Bloody afterbirth
Still clinging to the haunting syllables
That touched a terrible truth
The stench of candor
Rising out of its uncommon belly
Disturbed the prominent air
Sent small minds into epileptic fits of ego
Bullet words flying
Platitudes oozing from the wounds
The bulwarks of mediocrity erected
The last-ditch defense of a
Fools Paradise.
(Previously published in ArtsFusion, Dec '99 -Jan '00, Issue 17)
Laurence Overmire
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Forgiveness
requires putting aside the ego to
acknowledge
the inter-connection
of one human being
to another.
(Previously published in Badosa, June 2003)
Laurence Overmire
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