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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Out of empty space
Wood, mud, boulder, brick and
Stone
He created completely new worlds
Dream realities
Enchanted domesticities
Reverent sanctuaries
To soothe the battered senses
And send the spirit
Leaping
Into an unbounded future
Of exhilarating promise and
Unimagined possibility.
(Previously published in The Oracular Tree, June 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Frankenstein's Little Heads
there were thousands of tiny heads
locked inside a corporate logo
but with one collective breath
they gave life to the monster
a will of its own, independent of its
makers, willing to do
anything and everything, for
good or for evil, to insure
its survival, and thereby increase
the profits of its stockholders
thousands of other tiny heads
in fancy little gilt-edged boxes of their own.
(Previously published in The Hold, June 2003)
Laurence Overmire
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Free Speech
Theres one thing we cant talk about
Ever: Religion
At least not in public
No way to discuss, analyze, comment or
(Most especially)
Criticize
If you do
Venture into that Forbidden Zone
You are subject to the disturbingly
Violent consequences
People who are not at all rational
In defense of what they believe
The human psyche so fragile in the way
It is glued
Together.
(Previously published in CER*BER*US, XLI, Spring 2001)
Laurence Overmire
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From the Ash
Had he had the great success
The comet blazing cross the silver screen
Never would this man have
Fallen
In sweet, bitter ash
Slow Deaths grim career
The self rising
At last
Of its own immortal will
Beholden to none
Measured in its constancy
The true heart
Finally able
A full voice
In perfect tenor
Confident and clear.
(Previously published in The Poet's Porch, Apr 2002)
Laurence Overmire
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