Mark Heathcote Poems

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551.
And Be Worth So Much More Than Gold

Every story generates lies and tall tales
Distorting mirrors sadly, ruin lives.
It is better to be independent of any fictions
Find those sieves within yourself
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552.
Thoughts

Liquid forms all forms of life and evaporates, does that mean the flower never was?
And its mortal fleeting beauty shouldn't be spoken of and enjoyed as flesh and blood.

The deepest ocean is a bottomless pit whoever throws the first stone never reaches the pulp of it or the seed of it or the pip.
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553.
A Soul Divine

Raw and savage, beauty
is abreast of the world.
She sits in her arbour
an ardent little girl.
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554.
Oh, My Bronzed Love Says You'll Stay…

Oh, how can it be?
You don't wish the same sweet happiness' for me?
Surely we're not two worlds apart.
Just because I'm white and you, you are dark
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555.
A Spark Ignites A Fire

Two hearts together
At the moment
A spark ignites a fire
Of inextinguishable, desire.
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556.
I Tried To Love You

I tried to love you
Let it be said
I tried to love you
Like you loved me
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557.
Aching Compromise

Howling heart, don't leave me
Don't deplete the darkness
Under hungry, loving eyes
With any long-drawn-out goodbyes, aching, compromise.
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558.
African Summer

My heart can't fly
But it can walk high wire
In a gale-force wind
And roar like an African lion
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559.
Lust Has Always Been My Achilles Heel

Lust has always been my Achilles heel
I guess we all have weaknesses
Mine is when those pretty girls go by
With Short miniskirts, knee-high.
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560.
Happiness In All Things Grey

Russell Lee's photo 1939
Simply shows a young negro African-American man drinking water
From a 'coloured' wall-mounted-fountain in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City,
A young black man, he's just standing there simply passing the time of day,
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