Mark Heathcote Poems

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191.
Love You've Got Beauty

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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192.
Emerald Eyes

Your eyes are emeralds
Soaking up stars in space
Between us; taking me
Higher than the stars
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193.
Domestic Goddess

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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194.
I've Got My Hair Up In Her Hairstyle

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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195.
Loving Preps

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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196.
Teething Child

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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197.
Harriet Tubman

She carried those scars in her fractured skull
praying to God makes him change his ways,
she'd pray simultaneously for the improbable,
pray for freedom, and that of her family always.
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198.
Heaven Only Knows

Yours and…
Heaven's fate nobody knows
Its beauty is like a purple
Damask clustered rose
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199.
Snow-Kisses Pine Needle

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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200.
Real Love Is A Stones Ripple

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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