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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Cowboy Cavalier (haiku)
Cowboy cavalier
Dashing 'cross the dusty plain
American sunset
Laurence Overmire
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Crotchet (senryu)
Bees without bonnets
craws unstuck in something new
small stuff frets away
Laurence Overmire
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Crucible
Look at him
Boiling there
In the cauldron of being
The skin burning away
Raw flesh exposed
Look at his face
He doesnt want you to know
But inside his eyes
The pain, the brutal pain
Tears falling silently
But ah, look at his heart
Red-hot and pure
Blood gushing with hope
Love on fire spilling out of his guts
With no apologies.
(Previously published in Poetree Magazine, Summer 2000; Niederngasse, Sept 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Cruel and Unusual
The prisoner stood in his jailbird skivvies, guilty as charged,
waiting for the judge to rule. Oh please, your honor,
he pleaded with the magistrate, I know the foul crime
that I have committed deserves the severest penalty the law can provide,
but I am filled with deepest remorse. I have lived long and certainly
not well, but please, oh please, if there be any shred of mercy in your heart,
I beg you, do not send me back to when I was sixteen
in high schoolwith pimples and big feet.
(Previously published in Poetic Dreamer, Aug.2000)
Laurence Overmire
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