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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Doff (senryu)
Uncloak the mystery
remove the trappings of grief
what is has ever been
Laurence Overmire
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Don't Interfere
The poem is its own master
I obey
Commands I barely understand
Preparing the way
For some deeper revelation:
A -drop- of water
That feeds the root of the tree.
(Previously published in Boloji, Apr 2003)
Laurence Overmire
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Don't You Get It, Rudy G?
Art?
Offended by art?
No no no
Be offended by violence, by ignorance, by greed
But art?
No
Art, you see, is always
Even when it stinks and snarls and bites
A glorious) hideous (act
Of love.
(Previously published in Megaera, No.4, Fall 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Dowdy Won't Doody
She looks radiant today
What is it
I mean
Let's be honest she's had the
Dowdy, frumpy look for quite awhile
But
What is it that's different
A new hairdo? new lipstick?
It couldn't be a face-lift, could it?
No.
But I don't get it. She looks terrific!
What do you think it is?
I think they call it self-esteem.
Laurence Overmire
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