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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Holy Man
In gray temple
His balding head
Bowed in pious
Reverence
Lips chanting
Right words we need to hear
One might think him
A holy man
But then he tries to steal
The sacred key
Doors that lock forbidden places
Purposely barred to protect
The weak.
(Previously published in Fusion Ink, Issue 2, Sept 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Hot Springs
When a poem bubbles up
Out of the crevice
In the ground
Youd better cup your hands
Your mind
To catch it, quick
Before it vanishes
Into air.
(Previously published in The Short North Gazette, Feb 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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How Old?
Ask me my age and Ill tell you
True
Im somewhere between
Birth and Death
Are you?
(Previously published in Badosa,2003)
Laurence Overmire
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Humanus Polaris
You think the polars of my opposites
Are a little bit extreme?
To hate the one and love the other
To attack in form, defend in substance
To modify and mollify, condemn
...and reconstruct
A human being must fit the mold
The image of God distended
To those who have the courage to
Admit
Darkness and light, night and day
Moon and sun
A necessary balancing
Forces of a fundamental atom
The psyches only hold on
Stark reality
We say, damn youfor being
What you are.
(Previously published Apparent Depth,2000)
Laurence Overmire
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