Mark Heathcote Poems

Why does a tree or a plant
Have more DNA than me
Am, I any less evolved?
Then a plant or a tree!
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Mayfly, if ever an angel be
it was you and me
pirouetting in the air so free
above a cobweb lea.
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Walking through a cloud I'm seven miles high
And the crowd on the street is nowhere in sight.
Walking on a cloud I've fallen in love
With my very own pearly white heavenly dove.
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God kisses the corner of your dark eyes
With tears, you alone would know he's observant
And like a goldfish in a bowl you forgot
The touch of his hand in the sand…
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Baby, I should question why I love you
Cause you don't tease me
Even when you please me
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What is the need for life? Now death
Is the serpent contained in your breath?

The kiss of the world is a forked tongue
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The wheels on the bus there
all flat bust
all-flat bust
all-flat bust
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Far beyond any point of gratitude
a glowing light shines over a precipice
calls like sea waves retracting
around your dirty ankles, leaving
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Would I have lived died if not for you
If you were the land and I the vessel
Would I've ventured into port to follow?
You to your bedchamber your condo
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The flowers that wooden knot
The stars what have they all got
In common, each if fact could be dead
The flower could be pressed in a book.
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