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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Thomas No-Doubting Kincade
To turn fairy tales
Into landscapes
Tapping the wallets of all those
Hansels and Gretels
Who wish life was a
Gingerbread cookie
Not a haggard old witch with
Disturbingly ulterior
Motives.
(Previously published in Cotworld, Summer 2001)
Laurence Overmire
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Thoughtful Gift
His wife bought him a pair of
Golf balls
In a velveteen sack
To replace the ones
He lacked in their relationship.
(Previously published in The Short North Gazette, Dec 2001)
Laurence Overmire
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Three Secrets of Fatima
Fatima whispered
Three secrets
To terrorize the world
With speculation.
Faith in the balance
Hanging
Childish infatuation
Catastrophe lurking in fantasy
A fear of end-time and
Apocalypse.
Fizzling finally
At millenniums pass
In revelation of deeds
Not-so-momentous.
Age-old epiphanies
Merely
Quaint in metaphor and allusion
Subject to the stretch of
The willing imagination.
(Previously published in Newspoetry, Aug 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Throwing Away The Key
Strip away your relationships
One by one
Friend by friend by friend
By lover by parent by child
Until all that is left
Is a broken soul
Alone.
Then, when you understand
And only then
Equipped with the necessary wisdom
Are you at any kind of liberty
To judge
The desperate actions
Of another.
(Previously published in Webstatic, Sept.1999; Zinos.com, July 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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