Mark Heathcote

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I'm an adult learning difficulties Support woker in the UK I have five children and I share my life with my partner Elaine. I enjoy gardening and writing poetry when time permits. I enjoy having my poems read on-line and getting some feed back from like minded individuals. I hope you’ll find my poems enjoyable and thought provoking! Please leave a little comment if you’ve the time and the inclination to do so? Thank you!

Right now, I have 111 stories in 2 collections on the site. My stories have been read 10749 times and one story has been cherrypicked

My Stories

In loves gainsay

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:28 | 17 reads

Sea of empty space

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:25 | 12 reads

Times immoral guest

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:21 | 14 reads

For a short time—only?!

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:16 | 17 reads

Spick and span leather shoes

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:14 | 17 reads

triangular

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 18:29 | 45 reads

Language is the kingdom

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 18:27 | 38 reads

To seed the steps of heaven

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 18:26 | 35 reads

A white Christmas

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 18:22 | 31 reads

Death is a luxury

Submitted on November 11, 2008 - 22:00 | 52 reads

When I Neptune wear my Naught less

Submitted on November 11, 2008 - 21:54 | 69 reads

If I were a Tree

Submitted on November 11, 2008 - 21:53 | 50 reads

If love was a pocket-watch

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 16:08 | 56 reads

Time sifts through an hour glass

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 16:06 | 38 reads

Days swiftly passing

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 16:04 | 37 reads

Rumble in the jungle

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 16:01 | 54 reads

Deceit and lies

Submitted on October 30, 2008 - 23:13 | 71 reads

A red-roaring foot-tapping jukebox

Submitted on October 30, 2008 - 22:46 | 58 reads

The Credit crunch

Submitted on October 29, 2008 - 15:38 | 63 reads

Let this pilgrim’s sin, inaugurate

Submitted on October 26, 2008 - 16:49 | 62 reads

The bell of Knutsford’s many throng

Submitted on October 26, 2008 - 16:45 | 55 reads

A temporal vision

Submitted on October 25, 2008 - 09:18 | 58 reads

Lamenting hearts

Submitted on October 25, 2008 - 07:27 | 45 reads

A distant kind of love

Submitted on October 25, 2008 - 07:25 | 54 reads

Weight of love

Submitted on October 24, 2008 - 12:43 | 56 reads

Pink raindrops

Submitted on October 24, 2008 - 12:13 | 50 reads

Sunspot shadows

Submitted on October 24, 2008 - 12:05 | 53 reads

Men would quake in their opium hearts

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 09:25 | 72 reads

The cradle of the chosen!

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 09:23 | 53 reads

O” child of mine grow no-older

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 09:22 | 53 reads

Like a little pot of gold

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 09:19 | 55 reads

Smiles the choice of rose hips hue

Submitted on October 14, 2008 - 06:37 | 63 reads

O’ Maiden of a quiet, mournful, repose

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 23:14 | 66 reads

The greyer the storm light folds

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 22:11 | 59 reads

Who stars in our night?

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 22:01 | 57 reads

All long' the reign of absorption

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 22:00 | 60 reads

Can I bask in the meadow?

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 21:56 | 98 reads

Your love is like a pinnacle

Submitted on October 12, 2008 - 14:01 | 75 reads

Store teller’ with aqua green eyes’

Submitted on October 12, 2008 - 13:43 | 79 reads

So pale and hurtfully prissy

Submitted on October 11, 2008 - 15:19 | 70 reads

She put a rind around the world

Submitted on October 11, 2008 - 15:11 | 65 reads

All long' the reign of absorption

Submitted on October 11, 2008 - 15:09 | 61 reads

A poet’s epitaph

Submitted on October 7, 2008 - 16:46 | 84 reads

If beauty could let her love to me

Submitted on October 7, 2008 - 16:45 | 77 reads

A Joy if heaven is perpetually bright!

Submitted on October 7, 2008 - 16:42 | 76 reads

If beauty could let her love to me

Submitted on October 6, 2008 - 00:59 | 89 reads

The music of one’s love is deaf and dumb

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 22:55 | 117 reads

The garden

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 22:49 | 70 reads

An accommodating beggar

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 22:47 | 65 reads

His fallow beasts in prayer go humble

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:31 | 79 reads

The soul of eternal love

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:27 | 87 reads

Schizophrenics

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:25 | 87 reads

A pilgrim’s question

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:20 | 85 reads

Cot death

Submitted on September 28, 2008 - 09:20 | 108 reads

So pale and hurtfully prissy

Submitted on September 17, 2008 - 23:25 | 97 reads

Prophecies of a vision

Submitted on September 16, 2008 - 17:31 | 110 reads

Shining like a bride’s eyes

Submitted on September 14, 2008 - 16:08 | 101 reads

Your love is like a pinnacle

Submitted on September 2, 2008 - 00:04 | 92 reads

The soul of eternal love

Submitted on September 1, 2008 - 23:58 | 95 reads

kingdom of the wind

Submitted on September 1, 2008 - 23:52 | 121 reads

The music of one’s love is deaf and dumb

Submitted on September 1, 2008 - 23:47 | 130 reads

Daybreak

Submitted on August 18, 2008 - 23:57 | 100 reads

To walk in nature as Wordsworth

Submitted on August 18, 2008 - 23:51 | 119 reads

Waiting on all, you; have to say

Submitted on July 15, 2008 - 00:47 | 123 reads

What would this life be, like?

Submitted on July 14, 2008 - 23:26 | 122 reads

Put a compress on my heart

Submitted on July 14, 2008 - 22:21 | 126 reads

My lord: My honesty

Submitted on July 14, 2008 - 21:33 | 110 reads

Sad Susie

Submitted on July 9, 2008 - 08:39 | 117 reads

Binary butterflies

Submitted on July 9, 2008 - 00:12 | 117 reads

Everest

Submitted on July 8, 2008 - 22:10 | 111 reads

The wood cutter

Submitted on July 6, 2008 - 21:17 | 120 reads

You are our cradle in the water

Submitted on July 3, 2008 - 22:34 | 133 reads

By the river of contemplation

Submitted on July 3, 2008 - 22:19 | 127 reads

Lamenting ladies

Submitted on July 3, 2008 - 12:02 | 128 reads

The lord of Catchers-Can

Submitted on July 3, 2008 - 11:46 | 141 reads

Till the dawn-light ember lilts

Submitted on July 1, 2008 - 20:34 | 105 reads

On the wings of youth

Submitted on July 1, 2008 - 20:28 | 114 reads

My boyhood lover

Submitted on June 26, 2008 - 13:16 | 147 reads

The greyer the storm light folds

Submitted on June 25, 2008 - 13:49 | 120 reads

Raspberry canes

Submitted on June 25, 2008 - 13:45 | 132 reads

Lions lie down like corndogs

Submitted on June 24, 2008 - 09:10 | 146 reads

In these cormorant hours spent swift

Submitted on June 23, 2008 - 22:43 | 126 reads

Messed up riches

Submitted on June 23, 2008 - 20:47 | 133 reads

Through all our unending time

Submitted on June 19, 2008 - 00:45 | 139 reads

Immersed in anew mistress

Submitted on June 18, 2008 - 21:32 | 155 reads

Silk road

Submitted on June 18, 2008 - 18:21 | 125 reads

Finger on the pulse

Submitted on June 18, 2008 - 18:12 | 135 reads

I use to linger in the falling rain

Submitted on June 9, 2008 - 00:29 | 150 reads

It’s like a picture perfect morning

Submitted on June 9, 2008 - 00:23 | 142 reads

In love I'll run to you

Submitted on June 4, 2008 - 22:51 | 165 reads

Just enter my heart

Submitted on June 2, 2008 - 23:05 | 131 reads

Heavens torment

Submitted on June 2, 2008 - 19:06 | 127 reads

Binary butterflies

Submitted on June 2, 2008 - 18:59 | 163 reads

Phoenix like an evergreen thorn

Submitted on May 28, 2008 - 20:50 | 137 reads

A temporal vision

Submitted on May 28, 2008 - 20:47 | 125 reads

Beautiful creations

Submitted on May 27, 2008 - 18:02 | 164 reads

Final burst of flourishing stillness in the radiance of I?

Submitted on May 27, 2008 - 17:48 | 141 reads

It’s time to rest

Submitted on May 22, 2008 - 15:06 | 117 reads

What do I find in a kiss?

Submitted on May 20, 2008 - 16:43 | 142 reads

Damask rose

Submitted on May 20, 2008 - 16:37 | 144 reads

My love

Submitted on May 18, 2008 - 09:31 | 141 reads

Through sorrows of you

Submitted on May 18, 2008 - 09:15 | 135 reads

The bride

Submitted on May 13, 2008 - 17:29 | 156 reads

Candle wax sky

Submitted on May 13, 2008 - 17:25 | 161 reads

In love I'll run to you

Submitted on May 10, 2008 - 23:55 | 148 reads

Never to be mainstream

Submitted on May 10, 2008 - 23:30 | 152 reads

Lay still my beating heart!

Submitted on May 10, 2008 - 10:04 | 143 reads

Pale white beauty

Submitted on May 10, 2008 - 10:01 | 164 reads

But here today when love is true

Submitted on April 12, 2008 - 16:30 | 166 reads

The jarring of a midnight’s dew

Submitted on April 6, 2008 - 18:57 | 152 reads

See his ceiling lit with many a mirrored star

Submitted on April 6, 2008 - 18:52 | 149 reads