Laurence Overmire Poems

Life is all about focus
That upon which you focus
Becomes your reality
Your own personal truth
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I saw my sister Beatled
In 1964
Gum-cracking to the toe-tap of
Ed Sullivan’s really big shoe
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A garden grows resplendent and fertile
In the hearts of a happy few

To have shared and loved, laughed and cried
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If you knew the person
He thinks he is

You'd have to admit
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Trying to get somewhere
A place I want to be
On a road I suppose will take me there
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Look into my eye
What do you see?

Do you see the future
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Can you make me a name
Out of the clay of overused words
Make a sound that commands attention
In a cacophonous world that cannot
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What is it that we look for?
What are we hunting in the depths of our
Murkiest seas?
What is it that we need to discover?
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a speck in the universe
of what is and was and what will be
you know a dot
the President knows a dot
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I wish with Mozart on a
Twinkling star
Wonder who and what
You are…
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