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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Palomino (haiku)
Palomino hooves
fly across the barren plain
warrior's heart unbridled
(Previously published in Borders and Time, March 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Poetry is Dead
Capital D.
Go to the bookstore if you dont
Believe me
See if you can find the poetry
Way back in the back where
Most people seldom go
If you do find it, what
Do you see?
Frost and Dickinson and
Susan Polis Schutz
Oh, yes, Poetry is Dead.
Who killed it? And why?
We need to find the corpse
Get a sample of DNA
Re-construct a new being
A Poetry people can relate to
A Poetry people want to hear
A Poetry not only striking
But with something vividly important
To say.
(Previously published in CER*BER*US, XLIII, July 2001)
Laurence Overmire
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Point B to Point A
The Big Bang was
Not the beginning but the
End of
What had been, and in the eons since
Fragment by atomic fragment
A new universe arises out of the dust
What was past is present once
Again
Relatively speaking
As of matter, of course.
(Previously published in Pink Cadillac, Vol 3, #4, Fall 1999; The Scrivener's Pen, Vol.3, Issue 3,2003)
Laurence Overmire
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124.
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Sad Sacked
He was a weird fellow
Sat around reading books when he
Should have been working
Well, at least
LOOKING like he was working
Not that theres all that much
Work to do really
But its important to our customers
That we always look like were working
It gives them confidence
That theyre dealing with good, honest
Americans
Not a bunch of idiots who sit around
Reading books.
(Previously published in Temenos, May 2007)
Laurence Overmire
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