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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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In-Betweens
You are here
And I am there
And we two meet
In some odd place
In-between
We share our verses
Tender litanies
Lovers lockets
Dangled from a silver thread
I give you all the diamonds of a half-remembered dream
You give me flowers
Still fragrant from a meadow turned to dust
And kiss the incorporal air
With an assurance borne of time
Your face is like the mermaid
Half-myth, half-truth
Till suddenly you are gone
Disappearing in the ocean
Neath the waves
That wash the sand
And I once more
Stand alone
And aloof
And listen.
(Previously published in Rustlings of the Wind, Whereness Issue, Sept.2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Infanticide
The cruelty of children
Knuckles in, year upon year
To paunchy fingers of close fisted
Adults
Dulled in the wearing of suitable attire
Disguising motives
The subtle dissembling of snake-oiled
Smilers lurking in high grass
Playground bullies, biceps bared
Grappling still to be
King of the Hill, no quarter given
Deals bargained with devilish intent
The unwary innocent
Glasses broken with band-aid fix
Trapped in jungle gyms
Tethered balls knocked
Frozen tongue to metal
Flagpoles stuck in farrow dirt
Half-mast.
(Previously published in CER*BER*US, No.50,2002)
Laurence Overmire
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Infernal (senryu)
The hell of memory
burnings on the stake of life
ash settles in dust
Laurence Overmire
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Inferno
You call me evil, the infidel or worse
But Im your brother, arent I?
Made in the same image of the same
God of us both
I believe in things as strongly as you
I believe my cause is as just
That God is on my side, not yours
And if I say you must die
And you say I must die
Then either one of us is right
God choosing between two parts of Himself
Or both of us are wrong
And even God may never forgive us.
(Previously published in Some Words: A Place For Poetry, June 2003)
Laurence Overmire
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