Mark Heathcote Poems

My heart is a cactus flower
Unwilling to bend
Unwilling to wilt
Unwilling to die
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Love you've got beauty
In abundance oh so rare
It's wild and it's-earthly
-golden as buttercups in your hair
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Your eyes are emeralds
Soaking up stars in space
Between us; taking me
Higher than the stars
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Daylight fevers under cold sheets
Where sleep is like a pilot-light
Hoping it never meets the night
Never blinks at its dead defeats.
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She takes her broom to wildly sweep.
Keeps an occasional eye on the sky.
We take a personal look at her dust heap.
She remains dauntless, shy, and spry.
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Image His breath over your shoulder - directly
Could that be why your bloodshot eyes weep profoundly?
Softly with indignation - then you are blessed.
Soon your heart - tender-dark will wake from its lurid
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I've got my hair up in her hairstyle
In a bun, Amy Winehouse I'll to beguile
With a Pinks swing out; trapeze style
I'll live my life hard, treat all men vile.
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Yours and…
Heaven's fate nobody knows
Its beauty is like a purple
Damask clustered rose
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Snow-kisses-pine needle against bare skin.
Chilled champagne tingling's bubbling,
Immerse voiceless, deep murmurings within.
Warmth massages in the snowdrops'
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Lust sends the heart racing one way and then another.
Real love is a stone ripple, stinking ever deeper.
Permeating its reach further and further still.
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