Boxing Legend Poem by Laurence Overmire
Boxing Legend
They called him The Poet
A skinny little guy with glasses
He'd come into the ring with his trunks full of verse
And wham
One swift wallop of a metaphor
And you were down for the count.
~ Laurence Overmire
(Previously published in Poetry Croydon Live, Summer 2000, Vol.3, Part 2)
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Topic(s) of this poem: metaphor,summer
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