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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Doing Laundry
To be a serious poet
Is to continually face
The battering hand of rejection
No value placed on
Words and guts spilled
In ceremony
Onlookers indifferent to the slaughter
Toothpicks fingered between molar and gum
A burp to signal satisfaction
In dark rooms, feet propped up
Life sinks into the crevices between
Cushions
Voices from nowhere tumbling through a
Rinse cycle, drowning out
The silence.
(Previously published in Illogical Muse, Summer Issue 2007)
Laurence Overmire
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The Wolf (Haiku)
The wolf in darkness
moonlight on her hungry pups
bullet cold as night
(Previously published in Still, Issue 4, Autumn 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Tree Frog
The tree frog
sits
on a green leafy branch
and stares at me with bright orange persimmon eyes
and a goofy expression that says,
“I’m a tree frog, what did you expect? ”
His yellow gumby-like legs
and bulbous sticky fingers
are poised and
ready to jump
straight out of the calendar
and onto my keyboard.
Ah, the things that go through your head
when divining for inspiration.
(Previously published in Creative Voice, Feb.2000)
Laurence Overmire
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A Prayer for the Dying
Every day admit me
Please
Into the portal of the
Divine
Allow me to feel
The sublime majesty of life
To know
The sanctity of relationship
To touch
The beauty of Earth
Breathe into this poor undeserving frame
An immortal telling
A lasting consequence
Give me the power
To see
To believe
To dream
Forever.
(Previously published in Poetry Soul To Soul, Dec.2000)
Laurence Overmire
Read more: believe poems, power poems, beauty poems, dream poems, life poems
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