Mark Heathcote Poems

Love is a sacred red rose
First, you must breathe its

Hot fiery scented clothes
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If beauty could let' her love to me
like the white buds on a magnolia tree
what a nature in my soul there would be
what a freedom in my breast for thee
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Aloft to my angel, my angel child
that winged my heart flutters with joy.
I wish to bring ye young one home
and clothe thy bones with flesh and blood
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Kneeling; I pointed out to my child,
Who really as yet doesn't speak?
Look" I said: the sky is wild,
And grey. Look" at its cheek"
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Tears forever hoodwink and disobey
They vitrify molten glass to blow apart
Such is the principality they're cliche
Such is the hypnosis of a loyal heart
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Alone with her loneliness, she'd placed
In a darkened segmented basement:
Under her eyelids her impassionate prey.
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O did a tear make this ocean
O did the mildew and moss
form this an island crust
and then did the earth
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A soul may tally to the stars
Like a badge of victory honour
But who will know of the wounds
And wear its uniform of scares.
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My love
I feel your love
Soothing me my love
In a molten wave, I am taut
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'At night there are moonlit slugs…
Whose ivory body's comet'
'Out of their laurels' like Greek gods…
'Alone' these horned demons'
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