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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Cowboy Cavalier (haiku)
Cowboy cavalier
Dashing 'cross the dusty plain
American sunset
Laurence Overmire
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Culloden Moor,16 Apr 1746
Face to the wind in bitter cold
Beards crusted with ice
Gray eyes steeled in fierce rebellion
No foreign blade to master
The proud beating of a stout Highland heart.
The kilted clans had banned together
MacDonald and Fraser, Cameron and Stewart
A Bonnie Prince to lead them
Outnumbered, yet undaunted
Flags defiantly unfurled
A shaft of courage to drive sweet freedom
Home.
The bagpipe sounds its thrilling tune
The ranks in line of tartan shield
English cannon pounding
From generation to generation
Father and son
Kinsman and brother
A slow steady advance and
Charge!
Across the sodden moor
Broadswords waving
Over the blood-stained ground
A gallant fight of hand-to-hand
And death
At last succumbing
An hundred years and more
No more.
The final thrust of grim Fates story
Here
Upon a Scots grave field of
Honor.
Laurence Overmire
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Doodles Romanoff
The page stares at me
Blankly
Wondering why the hell I cant figure out something to write.
Pages can be so rude sometimes.
They just dont have any manners.
And they can make you feel like such an idiot
Especially when they show people what youve written.
Hey!
What did I tell you? !
Cut that out or Ill toss you in the wastebasket!
(Previously published in Undertow, July 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Droplet (haiku)
Droplet on the glass
tinkling on a summer's night
soft lips wait to taste
(Previously published in Poems Md, Apr 2008)
Laurence Overmire
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