State: Columbus, OH
Country: USA
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Ice Star What tidings do you bring Like Mercury from the gods You fiery-footed herald Of the vast unknown? How many civilizations did rise and fall Since your last report? How many seas have vanished From the cosmic shores Burned to vapor ‘neath a million suns And how many creatures spent their final breath Separate and alone On the brink of time? You have the answers You refuse to speak Or perhaps We do not hear Your foreign tongue Those flaming words enchant the eye But miss the brain. I cannot see you now. You stray too far. Afraid to touch this brittle earth Hurtling toward the gulf of black eclipse? Send my regards You vagabond Prince To those distant stars Beyond the light And whisper my story To the sleeping moons Nestled in their pillows Of galactic dust And when next you return And find me gone Listen for an echo And speak for me To the wondering world Below. Copyright © Laurence Overmire 2000 Laurence Overmire: Is an actor/director/writer who has worked on stage, film and television. His poetry has been or will be published in "Kimera," "Nuthouse," "Lynx Eye," "Emotions,""Angelflesh," "Maelstrom," "The Laire," "Uprising," "Office Number One,""Superior Poetry News," "Main Street Rag Poetry Journal," "Children,Churches and Daddies," "Nomad's Choir," "Improvijazzation Nation," "The Writer's Exchange," "Over the Back Fence Magazine," "Niederngasse," "Apples and Oranges," "Pegasus," "Blind Man's Rainbow," Wings," "L'Intrigue," "Mobius," "Footprints," "Vol. No. Magazine," "Some Words: A Place For Poetry," "Shadyvale Magazine," "Transcendant Visions," "Art Villa," "Bonfire," "Ygdrasil," "Aileron," "uXu," "Dream Forge," "Ascent Magazine," "Lynx: Poetry from Bath," "Barbaric Yawp," "Webstatic," "Seeker Magazine," "Ixion," "Unlikely Stories," "Poetry in the Light," "Horsethief's Journal," "Avalon," "Mind Fire Poetry Journal," "Burn," "ArtsFusion," "Manx Fiction," "Eclectica," "ShallowEND," "Carved in Sand," "The Courtship of Winds," "Friction Magazine," "Still," "Westward Quarterly," "Psychopetica" and others. |
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