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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Opening
I saw her for the first time
Thirty-five years after we were married
But by then it was too late.
(Previously published in Office Number One, Issue 25, Dec.1999)
Laurence Overmire
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Opening the Blind
I am. Today. At last.
A new me
Opens his eyes
The first light of morning breaks
The long night is over.
The past is past
Informing
Infusing my lifes blood with wisdom
Those who have deceived
Those who have hurt
Those who have betrayed
Are banished
This day.
Those who love
Those who give
Those who know
These I embrace
And invite
On a road not taken.
The future beckons
With possibility. And challenge.
But the present. Ah, Today. Now. This moment.
I breathe
The deep breath of being.
This day. This time.
Time
Is mine.
(Previously published in Ascent Magazine, Winter 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Optical Illusions
We wrap mythologies around our brains
Magicians blindfolds
To trick our eyes into a certain way of seeing.
They shape and limit our trespass upon this earth
Hurtling us into conflicts of our own magnificent ill design.
Our petty grievances languish in the bowels of succeeding generations
Laying waste to the promise of an innocent child.
Only the final blunt thrust of Deaths indifferent sword
Cuts through the Gordian Knot of lies
And stops our tinkering hearts
From beating.
(Previously published in Art Villa, Aug.1999)
Laurence Overmire
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Orbits Around the Moon
I am caught in time
in a timeless place
no borders, no boundaries
just psychological bolts
that rivet the mind
play sad tricks
on an innocent heart
and no measure of question and answer and
seeming logic truth
can matter the space
of a cosmic
dream
that has no borders, no boundaries
in a timeless place
(Previously published in Indie Journal, Oct.1999; Dream International Quarterly,2001)
Laurence Overmire
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