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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Optical Illusions
We wrap mythologies around our brains
Magicians blindfolds
To trick our eyes into a certain way of seeing.
They shape and limit our trespass upon this earth
Hurtling us into conflicts of our own magnificent ill design.
Our petty grievances languish in the bowels of succeeding generations
Laying waste to the promise of an innocent child.
Only the final blunt thrust of Deaths indifferent sword
Cuts through the Gordian Knot of lies
And stops our tinkering hearts
From beating.
(Previously published in Art Villa, Aug.1999)
Laurence Overmire
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Orbits Around the Moon
I am caught in time
in a timeless place
no borders, no boundaries
just psychological bolts
that rivet the mind
play sad tricks
on an innocent heart
and no measure of question and answer and
seeming logic truth
can matter the space
of a cosmic
dream
that has no borders, no boundaries
in a timeless place
(Previously published in Indie Journal, Oct.1999; Dream International Quarterly,2001)
Laurence Overmire
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Out of the Depths
In the creative clash
Wit and inspiration
Desperadoes of the soul
Struggling
Hand-to-eye, knife-to-throat
Illusion and fact head-locked
Aesthetics sucker-punched with
Second-guessing
A blur in the clutch of
Tunnel vision
Head pounding on closing wall
Hour upon hour
Day upon night
Caffeine and cigarette, sweat and blood
Stain the solitude
Paid in sacrifice of bread and clay
Hells black fire
Char the midnight silence
A gash of moon for
Penance.
In the end
Beaten raw
Exhausted on torn sheet
In unmade bed, collapsed
Light streaming through pulled curtain
Something breathes
Out of the depths, life
Emerge.
(Previously published in Apollo's Lyre, Spring 2007 Issue)
Laurence Overmire
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Over the Hill
In middle age
you find
the bridges are burned
theres no going back
a long climb to the top
of a lonely hill
the sharp descent is
quick and foreboding
the road disappearing
in a thicket of lost hope
a dust of memory
choking back
tears.
(Previously published in The Poet's Porch, Sept.2000)
Laurence Overmire
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