Caliban In Moonlight

Seeing things as we do Making judgments of good or bad Right and wrong Dismissing out-of-hand Sans cognizance or reflection We miss the opportunity To experience life from a different perspective To see virtue in a flaw of nature To know transcendence The leap from the norm of ordinary To that which is gifted and truly Unique And in our handicapped, club-foot vision The world is made smaller Mortal and unworthy A speck of dust in the eye of a Non-beholder. ~ Laurence Overmire (Previously published in Poets International, May 2014; Modern Poetry, Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Writers & Artists Publishing, New York,2015)