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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Artist with Shovel
We're trying to come to terms with this thing called
'Life'
That's what artists do
Trying to dig beauty out of the
Pain
To create something lasting
Something that speaks beyond
Generations
Something extraordinary
To mock the crude incivility of the grave.
(First electronically published in This Hard Wind, by EWGPresents, Vol.4, No.5, May 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Assault and Battery
The heart gets used up
Year after year after year
The mileage wearing on balding tires
Sure, it can be recharged, with sufficient juice
Now and then, but
Eventually
The poor thing, just cant kick-start
The engine anymore
And has to be
Re-placed.
(Previously published in Poetry & Art, Feb. '01)
Laurence Overmire
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Atom and Eve
We are the holograms of our
Spiritual selves
Matter but a figment of a
Greater imagination
What is real seeming
Improbable
The substance of who we are
Impossible to hold.
(Previously published in Wired Art from Wired Hearts, July 2002)
Laurence Overmire
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Auschwitz
The bulldozers plowed the remains
Into a ditch
Dreams crunching into memories
Tumbling over possibilities
Beliefs popping out of sockets
Hopes breaking 'neath the crush of
Soiled humanity
The stench enough to water the eyes of God
Who said nothing
Waiting for someone to be a prayer.
(Previously published in Poets 4 Peace, Nov 2000; Poetry Superhighway, Yom Hashoah Issue #10, Apr 2008)
Laurence Overmire
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