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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Our Baby Boy
(The parents slammed him against the wall)
When they didnt listen
(Beat him upside the head)
When they didnt answer
(Locked him in a room without supper)
When they went to work all day and night
(Put a shotgun in his hand)
When they didnt pay attention
And finally, never asking what he needed
(Laid the wreath upon his grave) .
(Previously published in No Alibi Press, Feb.2002)
Laurence Overmire
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Spring Flower
She tended her garden faithfully
With delicate fingers
Ripped his unsuspecting heart
Out
Like a weed.
(Previously published in Deep Underground, Sept.1999; Undertow, July 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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The Life Of A Cat
Sleep.
Eat.
Sleep.
Play with string.
Sleep.
Eat.
Sleep.
Hunt a bug.
Sleep.
Eat.
Sleep.
Sleep.
Sleep.
(Previously published in Superior Poetry News, Spring 1999, vol 5, No.1; Short North Gazette, Aug.1999; Lightverse.com, Nov.2000)
Laurence Overmire
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The Wild Horse
I ride the wild horse
The windy steed with the bloody hooves
I have no reins, no control, no will of my own
My arms tight around the surging neck
Fingers clutching the flying mane
Heels dug into the galloping muscles of the flanks
Down rocky slopes, steep terrain
He carries me
Helplessly
Deep inside the darkest passages
Of my self
The dreaming unbidden places
Where the timeless wisdom of the midnight moon
Touches the fire of the stars and
Gives breath
To the wakening soul.
(Previously published in Shadyvale Magazine, Winter 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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