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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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One in a Million
I make it my lifes work
To feel
I make it hard to live
In denial
But sometimes the pain is more
Than this slight mortality can bear
Sometimes I dont want
To feel
I dont want to know
Sometimes I only want to close
My eyes and sleep
But then
Id only wake up again
The world that much worse
For my having turned away.
(Previously published in The Breath E-Zine, Sept.2003)
Laurence Overmire
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One Without the Other
Life
when viewed through the prism of Death
Appears
in all its splendor.
(Previously published in Westward Quarterly, Spring 2000, Vol.2, Issue 1; Irish Stew, Summer 2007, Vol.4, No.2)
Laurence Overmire
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Opening
I saw her for the first time
Thirty-five years after we were married
But by then it was too late.
(Previously published in Office Number One, Issue 25, Dec.1999)
Laurence Overmire
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Opening the Blind
I am. Today. At last.
A new me
Opens his eyes
The first light of morning breaks
The long night is over.
The past is past
Informing
Infusing my lifes blood with wisdom
Those who have deceived
Those who have hurt
Those who have betrayed
Are banished
This day.
Those who love
Those who give
Those who know
These I embrace
And invite
On a road not taken.
The future beckons
With possibility. And challenge.
But the present. Ah, Today. Now. This moment.
I breathe
The deep breath of being.
This day. This time.
Time
Is mine.
(Previously published in Ascent Magazine, Winter 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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