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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Infernal (senryu)
The hell of memory
burnings on the stake of life
ash settles in dust
Laurence Overmire
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Inferno
You call me evil, the infidel or worse
But Im your brother, arent I?
Made in the same image of the same
God of us both
I believe in things as strongly as you
I believe my cause is as just
That God is on my side, not yours
And if I say you must die
And you say I must die
Then either one of us is right
God choosing between two parts of Himself
Or both of us are wrong
And even God may never forgive us.
(Previously published in Some Words: A Place For Poetry, June 2003)
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Infidel
What these mortals
Dont understand
Preaching from their various
Altar egos
Believing as they do in
The right of their own
Particular way
Is that God Himself has
No religion.
(Previously published in The Hold, June 2004)
Laurence Overmire
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Inside Out
Death is waiting patiently outside the door
Smoking a cigarette
Notching the minutes into his belt
His dark eyes fixed upon some distant star
One more puff
Then
He snuffs the butt out in the sand
Turns
And with an outstretched hand
Opens the latch.
(Previously published in Pegasus, Vol.15, No.1, Spring 2000; The Poet's Porch, Dec.2000)
Laurence Overmire
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