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!

I have 543 stories in 2 collections on the site. My stories have been read 137315 times and 9 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

These are my mountains…

First published on June 8, 2013 - 03:09  | 18 reads

Beneath a mango moon our love

First published on June 8, 2013 - 03:02  | 20 reads

Black sorceress

First published on June 8, 2013 - 02:51  | 20 reads

Who could want more!

First published on June 5, 2013 - 23:59  | 16 reads

Eastern sunlight

First published on June 5, 2013 - 23:25  | 14 reads

I’m only half way to the moon

First published on April 22, 2013 - 13:39  | 38 reads

Aren’t words apt?

First published on April 21, 2013 - 22:12  | 38 reads

Mine is the voice off all things

First published on April 21, 2013 - 15:37  | 27 reads

Tradition systematizes all strength in size

First published on April 21, 2013 - 15:29  | 32 reads

Until I follow you

First published on April 19, 2013 - 21:55  | 37 reads

Why, dandelion it isn’t easy…

First published on April 19, 2013 - 15:52  | 32 reads

Melancholly wings

First published on April 19, 2013 - 14:11  | 30 reads

Wearing space specks in space

First published on April 19, 2013 - 02:02  | 30 reads

A hoedown love

First published on April 19, 2013 - 01:09  | 35 reads

On this your birthday

First published on April 17, 2013 - 02:12  | 25 reads

Ashtray blues

First published on April 17, 2013 - 01:55  | 24 reads

An ode to spring

First published on April 16, 2013 - 16:49  | 28 reads

We’d make corn rings till the day I die

First published on April 14, 2013 - 03:15  | 37 reads

Blue berries and ice-cream

First published on April 14, 2013 - 03:12  | 41 reads

Women are quarrelsome

First published on April 14, 2013 - 03:11  | 28 reads

No passion begs

First published on April 12, 2013 - 14:27  | 43 reads

He’s just a bug on my lapel

First published on April 12, 2013 - 14:26  | 59 reads

Now I find a beehive of discontent

First published on April 12, 2013 - 14:24  | 36 reads

My very own queen of hearts

First published on April 12, 2013 - 01:18  | 64 reads

Avalanche

First published on April 11, 2013 - 22:32  | 33 reads

Pupate

First published on April 11, 2013 - 16:29  | 34 reads

Why don’t you stay well clear of me?

First published on April 10, 2013 - 05:23  | 36 reads

My souls away with the fairies… (song)

First published on April 7, 2013 - 04:15  | 32 reads

Tonight the wind is a bone-cutter

First published on April 4, 2013 - 05:33  | 40 reads

Elf’s came to shake the bluebells

First published on April 4, 2013 - 03:14  | 35 reads

Niagara woman

First published on January 29, 2013 - 00:43  | 50 reads

"7"autumn haiku

First published on December 20, 2012 - 02:54  | 86 reads

Turkey dinner

First published on December 14, 2012 - 06:16  | 60 reads

From a neutrals corner

First published on December 14, 2012 - 00:55  | 32 reads

Love has its damage

First published on December 12, 2012 - 03:28  | 35 reads

When love goes south of the boarder…

First published on December 12, 2012 - 02:45  | 37 reads

Gentle as a lamb the entire world airbrushed

First published on December 12, 2012 - 01:05  | 30 reads

Oh didn’t the year fly by…

First published on December 11, 2012 - 03:00  | 23 reads

I am but a shadow

First published on December 9, 2012 - 03:31  | 73 reads

Full breakfast…

First published on December 1, 2012 - 03:56  | 61 reads

The mighty have to fall…

First published on November 28, 2012 - 02:34  | 56 reads

The flower

First published on November 24, 2012 - 04:53  | 66 reads

Ermine landscapes...

First published on November 24, 2012 - 02:50  | 61 reads

Raking over church yard cinders

First published on November 24, 2012 - 01:52  | 70 reads

Big ships sail out to sea

First published on November 21, 2012 - 02:29  | 62 reads

Emerald eyes…

First published on November 21, 2012 - 01:48  | 47 reads

So what has become of the yard bird?

First published on November 20, 2012 - 21:48  | 60 reads

Dot to dot…

First published on November 20, 2012 - 02:11  | 68 reads

An angel walks in snowdrifts…

First published on November 19, 2012 - 23:20  | 54 reads

Your kiss

First published on November 19, 2012 - 22:40  | 54 reads

The thimble of life

First published on November 8, 2012 - 20:48  | 50 reads

The joys of a young boy are simply cruel

First published on November 6, 2012 - 15:11  | 67 reads

What the atom-bomb shall I do?

First published on November 6, 2012 - 14:56  | 50 reads

You’re not middle aged yet you think?

First published on November 4, 2012 - 23:32  | 50 reads

Playful Fingers…

First published on November 4, 2012 - 23:29  | 52 reads

Misfortune’s usherettes!

First published on November 4, 2012 - 23:28  | 43 reads

Love and rapture!

First published on October 31, 2012 - 23:28  | 57 reads

Anesthetized shock!

First published on October 30, 2012 - 23:13  | 52 reads

Art beauty and lust…

First published on October 30, 2012 - 23:09  | 45 reads

Teachers pet…?

First published on October 30, 2012 - 23:07  | 59 reads

In the froth of life

First published on October 28, 2012 - 23:21  | 52 reads

You’re not middle aged yet you think?

First published on October 28, 2012 - 23:19  | 50 reads

Crab apple…

First published on October 21, 2012 - 00:29  | 62 reads

Sunday papers

First published on October 21, 2012 - 00:25  | 83 reads

Treasure me like a desert sun

First published on October 2, 2012 - 01:14  | 58 reads

Wardrobe-skeletons

First published on October 1, 2012 - 21:44  | 54 reads

Caught between two opposing angels

First published on October 1, 2012 - 01:06  | 67 reads

Love without sex - sex without love

First published on September 26, 2012 - 20:21  | 96 reads

No caldron broths…

First published on September 26, 2012 - 01:24  | 68 reads

Love and envy…

First published on September 25, 2012 - 22:40  | 80 reads

Foreign exchange students…?

First published on September 25, 2012 - 20:25  | 87 reads

Misplaced ego!

First published on September 25, 2012 - 03:39  | 74 reads

Crying for her first emperor…

First published on September 24, 2012 - 23:32  | 71 reads

A Medusa's calling…

First published on September 24, 2012 - 19:27  | 63 reads

Fewer nicks’ no, grey upholstery

First published on September 22, 2012 - 12:43  | 63 reads

Our vases were filled with wine

First published on September 22, 2012 - 12:41  | 63 reads

Of cause it’s all lies, it always is

First published on September 22, 2012 - 12:40  | 49 reads

Where is the harm in looking?

First published on September 21, 2012 - 21:02  | 55 reads

Charge him with a pirate infraction…

First published on September 21, 2012 - 20:57  | 48 reads

Universal puzzles

First published on September 21, 2012 - 20:54  | 49 reads

God is a prophet don’t you know?

First published on September 20, 2012 - 23:20  | 68 reads

Love is a road...

First published on September 20, 2012 - 15:11  | 85 reads

For: Edith Södergran

First published on September 20, 2012 - 14:24  | 65 reads

All to show some self-control

First published on September 17, 2012 - 03:25  | 60 reads

A poem holds your hand

First published on September 17, 2012 - 02:15  | 73 reads

“Up-wellsprings poetry from the coldest; deserts hearts”

First published on September 17, 2012 - 01:09  | 49 reads

And time the green unfurling ferns frond

First published on September 11, 2012 - 05:16  | 57 reads

Divination…

First published on September 11, 2012 - 03:24  | 59 reads

Out of their laurels like Greek gods…

First published on September 11, 2012 - 00:38  | 60 reads

The potter’s wheel

First published on August 8, 2012 - 03:35  | 102 reads

Hope gardens every whisper

First published on August 6, 2012 - 02:45  | 91 reads

Of all I’ve seen waiting to be discovered

First published on August 5, 2012 - 02:52  | 68 reads

My soul is teething for your love

First published on July 31, 2012 - 23:19  | 92 reads

I dance in the flames of your love

First published on July 30, 2012 - 01:18  | 84 reads

The drums roll…

First published on July 30, 2012 - 00:01  | 72 reads

Come with the throes of your lov

First published on July 29, 2012 - 22:25  | 71 reads

Living sparks in the dark

First published on July 29, 2012 - 00:27  | 75 reads

Right before your eyes

First published on July 28, 2012 - 23:20  | 65 reads

Lay waste to my own dark wastelands

First published on July 28, 2012 - 15:58  | 67 reads

River Street Urchins

First published on July 25, 2012 - 01:26  | 70 reads

A losing hand poker

First published on July 25, 2012 - 01:25  | 71 reads

I glean to touch an angel’s feather

First published on July 25, 2012 - 01:23  | 77 reads

Towering above and beyond…

First published on July 24, 2012 - 00:51  | 68 reads

The father’s daughter

First published on July 24, 2012 - 00:50  | 86 reads

The turn of a wood-screw

First published on July 23, 2012 - 15:59  | 73 reads

The wedding cake couple

First published on July 23, 2012 - 12:24  | 79 reads

Love’s a dodo

First published on July 23, 2012 - 04:23  | 80 reads

It’s all love coos… a turtle dove!

First published on July 23, 2012 - 02:52  | 59 reads

Gingerbread men…

First published on July 23, 2012 - 02:26  | 94 reads

Catching moths and butterflies together!

First published on July 21, 2012 - 00:18  | 111 reads

Blank canvas…

First published on July 20, 2012 - 00:49  | 83 reads

Girl with a Pearl Earring

First published on July 18, 2012 - 23:37  | 101 reads

There’s no end too my life

First published on July 18, 2012 - 21:12  | 74 reads

Let us have back our annual prize!

First published on July 18, 2012 - 19:28  | 63 reads

A flower cut from desire

First published on July 18, 2012 - 01:07  | 61 reads

Adolescent hormones…

First published on July 17, 2012 - 22:54  | 70 reads

Any more than the moons aglow…

First published on July 17, 2012 - 22:22  | 89 reads

They’re singing in the laurels

First published on July 10, 2012 - 19:56  | 88 reads

Blue and white flower zeniths…

First published on July 3, 2012 - 05:03  | 75 reads

Married life

First published on June 27, 2012 - 01:09  | 78 reads

Yearnings of the longest day and night!

First published on June 26, 2012 - 23:34  | 102 reads

Swimming, below zero...

First published on June 24, 2012 - 01:47  | 83 reads

Your life is on a throne

First published on June 22, 2012 - 15:27  | 85 reads

Liqueur and life

First published on June 22, 2012 - 13:27  | 110 reads

The madness of the bee…

First published on June 22, 2012 - 01:41  | 88 reads

A backwards look in the mirror…

First published on June 21, 2012 - 23:32  | 96 reads

The sun and seas a jolly cast?

First published on June 21, 2012 - 17:11  | 99 reads

It was in self-defense, I’m quite sure

First published on June 20, 2012 - 23:14  | 79 reads

Fagan or scrooge

First published on June 16, 2012 - 23:20  | 77 reads

Evening primrose…

First published on June 16, 2012 - 15:36  | 98 reads

I remember my own insanities…

First published on June 16, 2012 - 15:09  | 81 reads

Somewhere inside of you!

First published on June 14, 2012 - 02:19  | 111 reads

The devils handy-work at work

First published on June 12, 2012 - 00:26  | 123 reads

But wasn’t it just purest blue…

First published on June 8, 2012 - 02:42  | 95 reads

A bridge of joy

First published on June 5, 2012 - 19:18  | 98 reads

Black…?

First published on June 5, 2012 - 17:02  | 93 reads

Bubble gum pavements

First published on June 5, 2012 - 15:06  | 168 reads

At dusk as I urged the fish too bite

First published on June 1, 2012 - 02:12  | 107 reads

Join me listen to the sitar players theorise…

First published on May 31, 2012 - 01:42  | 95 reads

The carpenter’s hands are bleeding blood

First published on May 30, 2012 - 01:13  | 104 reads

Kahlil Gibran

First published on April 3, 2012 - 01:44  | 96 reads

Kiss me this once!

First published on March 5, 2012 - 02:53  | 103 reads

You are my?

First published on March 5, 2012 - 02:48  | 103 reads

Listening to angelic flutes like Plato!

First published on March 2, 2012 - 04:06  | 106 reads

Don’t worry it’s all been planned...

First published on February 29, 2012 - 03:18  | 88 reads

Her legs are like earrings…

First published on February 29, 2012 - 00:42  | 112 reads

They lay like plaited bread in love…

First published on February 29, 2012 - 00:32  | 121 reads

Out of life’s billowing dust:

First published on February 22, 2012 - 01:00  | 91 reads

Happiest is he under a lone sunbeam

First published on February 21, 2012 - 23:59  | 92 reads

Séance ordering…

First published on February 18, 2012 - 01:36  | 99 reads

Smoke rings...

First published on February 16, 2012 - 01:09  | 95 reads

Asexual

First published on February 15, 2012 - 23:16  | 112 reads

Will our wounds be sutured?

First published on February 14, 2012 - 01:49  | 133 reads

To be the silence that is a full moon

First published on February 12, 2012 - 10:23  | 87 reads

The father’s love

First published on February 11, 2012 - 21:38  | 105 reads

Lioness…

First published on February 11, 2012 - 01:18  | 104 reads

Over new; greens seas drip-fed

First published on February 9, 2012 - 02:24  | 102 reads

Checkmate!

First published on February 8, 2012 - 01:13  | 109 reads

The Blackbird’s startled wing…

First published on February 7, 2012 - 22:38  | 140 reads

The physical scent of life has gone…

First published on January 30, 2012 - 03:37  | 126 reads

Stillness is not, acceptable!

First published on January 27, 2012 - 02:52  | 122 reads

Lord my love don’t you know…?

First published on January 21, 2012 - 17:31  | 127 reads

Winter wingless prey…

First published on January 21, 2012 - 15:49  | 132 reads

Windup my sail

First published on January 21, 2012 - 14:15  | 135 reads

Ode; to a bony old feral foundry cat

First published on January 20, 2012 - 08:20  | 134 reads

Greenbrier

First published on January 17, 2012 - 00:37  | 115 reads

Apprehensive lovers

First published on January 11, 2012 - 00:30  | 156 reads

Love unbeknown...?

First published on January 8, 2012 - 08:38  | 134 reads

The tide is out... far beyond sight

First published on January 8, 2012 - 02:05  | 129 reads

Filter out the dreamless, sleepless dark

First published on January 7, 2012 - 03:27  | 109 reads

Joyous moonlight I’m no broken sunlight!

First published on December 24, 2011 - 02:21  | 105 reads

Minted and crowned

First published on December 21, 2011 - 01:22  | 150 reads

End of day’s that's what I bequeath

First published on December 20, 2011 - 03:57  | 102 reads

No I am not without love

First published on December 20, 2011 - 02:48  | 120 reads

God’s eyes must have the scimitars kiss.

First published on December 18, 2011 - 02:52  | 136 reads

Oil made of stone

First published on December 18, 2011 - 01:55  | 120 reads

Where the moonlight and I repine

First published on December 18, 2011 - 01:00  | 141 reads

To the very core of my poor vile being

First published on December 14, 2011 - 02:27  | 136 reads

What the tabloids say about love!

First published on December 10, 2011 - 05:08  | 140 reads

Tao!

First published on December 8, 2011 - 01:45  | 127 reads

(Player (melded) sparrow).

First published on December 7, 2011 - 23:45  | 195 reads

To err is human, ‘songstresses’

First published on December 7, 2011 - 21:21  | 117 reads

Minding my own business...

First published on December 6, 2011 - 02:36  | 134 reads

Flightless angels shall fervently stare

First published on December 5, 2011 - 04:27  | 103 reads

Once they spall-sparkled like foxglove

First published on December 4, 2011 - 02:42  | 157 reads

The night runs in fear of the dreamer

First published on November 27, 2011 - 04:47  | 123 reads

Gods’ ballerinas

First published on November 27, 2011 - 01:16  | 127 reads

“Again” I cannot read...

First published on November 24, 2011 - 01:33  | 111 reads

Of cause she’ll kiss me…

First published on November 22, 2011 - 23:55  | 126 reads

Of cause she’ll kiss me…

First published on November 22, 2011 - 23:55  | 104 reads

Middle age puberty...

First published on November 22, 2011 - 02:01  | 144 reads

The oohs and OH’s... of a winter rose

First published on November 21, 2011 - 03:33  | 137 reads

Who wants to live on the cherry road?

First published on November 19, 2011 - 02:57  | 109 reads

There's no misogyny just government feet

First published on November 19, 2011 - 01:43  | 113 reads

But it wasn’t my chivalry you were after…

First published on November 19, 2011 - 00:40  | 118 reads

Even the cuckoo has to find its layer...

First published on November 18, 2011 - 02:16  | 113 reads

No louder than the snoring tigers lolling tongue!

First published on November 17, 2011 - 23:53  | 176 reads

Once again ship foundered…

First published on November 16, 2011 - 23:41  | 140 reads

The drawbridge across the brambles…

First published on November 16, 2011 - 20:22  | 120 reads

Egotistic eccentric things like this…

First published on November 12, 2011 - 03:07  | 144 reads

Am I Insensitive?

First published on November 10, 2011 - 23:43  | 127 reads

2 unorthodox haiku

First published on November 10, 2011 - 03:41  | 130 reads

9 Haiku

First published on November 10, 2011 - 02:19  | 123 reads

Playing soldiers

First published on November 9, 2011 - 22:49  | 109 reads

3 Haiku

First published on November 9, 2011 - 01:23  | 154 reads

4 Haiku

First published on November 9, 2011 - 00:03  | 135 reads

7 Haiku

First published on November 8, 2011 - 22:28  | 120 reads

!!! What you ask?!!!

First published on November 6, 2011 - 16:31  | 123 reads

I felt like the bough upon she wanted to live.

First published on November 5, 2011 - 01:46  | 138 reads

Cemetery walks…

First published on November 3, 2011 - 01:42  | 123 reads

((The jelly fish))!

First published on October 31, 2011 - 00:57  | 139 reads

Forever autumn

First published on October 30, 2011 - 21:19  | 152 reads

A Stealth-fighter

First published on October 29, 2011 - 09:10  | 110 reads

Who but could—the saints preserve us, resist her...

First published on October 28, 2011 - 23:57  | 172 reads

Meal ticket

First published on October 26, 2011 - 23:38  | 144 reads

A hall of mirrors...

First published on October 26, 2011 - 23:24  | 132 reads

Life is like a leather bicycle seat

First published on October 26, 2011 - 23:22  | 131 reads

Harvey’s: Lullaby…

First published on October 25, 2011 - 01:25  | 378 reads

The path of a six year old believer!

First published on October 22, 2011 - 23:51  | 141 reads

The winner’s line!

First published on October 22, 2011 - 01:09  | 133 reads

The path of a believer

First published on October 22, 2011 - 00:39  | 131 reads

Love kept her for a teacup

First published on October 21, 2011 - 02:10  | 176 reads

Why? Travel

First published on October 21, 2011 - 00:57  | 147 reads

The truth about Ruth…

First published on October 20, 2011 - 03:00  | 155 reads

4 Tanka

First published on October 19, 2011 - 00:18  | 135 reads

We are the all...?

First published on October 18, 2011 - 01:45  | 127 reads

A child’s vision...

First published on October 17, 2011 - 22:54  | 140 reads

His bread crumb love!

First published on October 16, 2011 - 02:17  | 138 reads

The spring gardener...

First published on October 13, 2011 - 00:52  | 142 reads

Autumn love...

First published on October 13, 2011 - 00:50  | 141 reads

What was she doing, there?

First published on October 10, 2011 - 00:46  | 137 reads

Out of respect into a righteous war!

First published on October 10, 2011 - 00:03  | 138 reads

Living in hell?

First published on October 9, 2011 - 03:13  | 143 reads

Fumbling for words...

First published on October 9, 2011 - 01:04  | 150 reads

Who are the best players...

First published on October 7, 2011 - 00:11  | 137 reads

I'll love you all this world and back...

First published on October 6, 2011 - 23:01  | 136 reads

Into the vastness of a dream...

First published on October 4, 2011 - 03:04  | 172 reads

I have not love, enough...?

First published on October 4, 2011 - 02:06  | 158 reads

My thoughts were like a feather

First published on October 4, 2011 - 00:53  | 138 reads

A filigree of gold:

First published on October 3, 2011 - 01:48  | 130 reads

Have I no hope but to drown in sorrow

First published on September 24, 2011 - 01:54  | 140 reads

My last bone

First published on September 20, 2011 - 18:58  | 163 reads

Think again

First published on September 18, 2011 - 01:20  | 314 reads

The poets trinity

First published on August 25, 2011 - 02:18  | 183 reads

I go in search of nothing

First published on August 25, 2011 - 01:57  | 137 reads

Meandering space...

First published on August 24, 2011 - 23:34  | 162 reads

Ask what is there to hunt or fish for now?

First published on August 24, 2011 - 19:41  | 149 reads

That’s what they at the asylum now say

First published on August 24, 2011 - 01:44  | 165 reads

Winters apart

First published on August 20, 2011 - 00:53  | 289 reads

Bloodshed...

First published on August 6, 2011 - 01:36  | 329 reads

Why did the star dust dance

First published on August 2, 2011 - 04:24  | 174 reads

Love will always find its catamaran

First published on August 1, 2011 - 00:52  | 177 reads

When; winter does wrestle death..?

First published on July 26, 2011 - 01:44  | 301 reads

The garden

First published on July 26, 2011 - 01:42  | 315 reads

Lest his pilgrim, sins do not inaugurate…

First published on July 26, 2011 - 01:40  | 307 reads

I blew the dust of his black velvet wings…

First published on July 24, 2011 - 22:32  | 172 reads

In prayer did I hear a hum..?

First published on July 24, 2011 - 22:31  | 192 reads

They Phoenix the evergreen thorn…

First published on July 24, 2011 - 22:28  | 163 reads

Windswept shadows...

First published on July 22, 2011 - 22:41  | 212 reads

Raspberry canes

First published on July 22, 2011 - 22:14  | 199 reads

Joy jumps heart to heart

First published on July 22, 2011 - 00:35  | 222 reads

No two people…

First published on July 22, 2011 - 00:32  | 191 reads

How royally Avant-garde am I

First published on July 22, 2011 - 00:30  | 180 reads

See His ceiling lit…

First published on July 20, 2011 - 23:28  | 289 reads

On the Nap of Monarch’s wing

First published on July 20, 2011 - 23:26  | 217 reads

They Phoenix the evergreen thorn…

First published on July 20, 2011 - 23:24  | 202 reads

Her treasury is quite empty

First published on July 19, 2011 - 02:03  | 192 reads

Limerick

First published on July 18, 2011 - 18:56  | 189 reads

Often I’d search out the blue

First published on July 18, 2011 - 16:58  | 161 reads

Thieves and menschen

First published on July 18, 2011 - 05:38  | 198 reads

Carte blanche…

First published on July 17, 2011 - 12:25  | 189 reads

Follow my coat tails...

First published on July 17, 2011 - 12:24  | 202 reads

For as molten metal bound are we not in the magma

First published on July 16, 2011 - 14:47  | 159 reads

a pigeon’s loft

First published on July 16, 2011 - 14:41  | 202 reads

A star feathered orchard:

First published on July 16, 2011 - 14:38  | 178 reads

For as molten metal bound are we not in the magma

First published on July 9, 2011 - 02:38  | 199 reads

Ex-Streams of consciousness’

First published on April 16, 2011 - 23:37  | 229 reads

Peace on a bough never withers

First published on March 30, 2011 - 01:34  | 229 reads

A poetic exile

First published on March 29, 2011 - 23:23  | 242 reads

What we worship guides our thirst...

First published on March 29, 2011 - 23:04  | 187 reads

38 yrs—on,

First published on March 19, 2011 - 01:18  | 271 reads

Toss my hat; with the great, Hurrah...

First published on March 18, 2011 - 22:56  | 349 reads

The lovers-root is a white-flower

First published on February 22, 2011 - 03:19  | 247 reads

Self profiling, prophesies...

First published on February 20, 2011 - 17:58  | 395 reads

A love slave’s shanty to a goddess...

First published on February 6, 2011 - 03:01  | 356 reads

A question amongst equals

First published on January 29, 2011 - 03:19  | 424 reads

Sing as I never did before

First published on December 16, 2010 - 01:53  | 252 reads

The joys in her heart shall never be eclipse!

First published on December 8, 2010 - 04:35  | 227 reads

To the intolerant elected us must learn to love:

First published on November 26, 2010 - 04:50  | 362 reads

Search endlessly for this truth divine

First published on November 2, 2010 - 01:10  | 217 reads

Autumn breeze...

First published on October 11, 2010 - 01:01  | 250 reads

Wear on the same gargoyle face

First published on October 8, 2010 - 02:58  | 287 reads

Nicknames for Aislinn

First published on July 22, 2010 - 00:47  | 444 reads

To call upon the winds dust

First published on June 30, 2010 - 22:50  | 272 reads

Whatever creation is

First published on June 30, 2010 - 22:24  | 259 reads

wars tug of love

First published on June 23, 2010 - 03:08  | 277 reads

Dark Matter

First published on June 10, 2010 - 02:04  | 274 reads

For all the worlds caring—we’ve done!

First published on April 27, 2010 - 00:38  | 274 reads

A tenant is he

First published on April 22, 2010 - 23:35  | 317 reads

See the world is anon...

First published on April 22, 2010 - 22:17  | 285 reads

Straight-out of the delivery box

First published on April 22, 2010 - 21:41  | 292 reads

Whatever creation is;

First published on April 19, 2010 - 00:17  | 252 reads

Two short poems:

First published on April 15, 2010 - 02:13  | 280 reads

No two people

First published on April 15, 2010 - 01:22  | 293 reads

Séance reading...

First published on April 14, 2010 - 23:34  | 295 reads

From A to Z

First published on April 8, 2010 - 01:07  | 355 reads

If it was not for the wind

First published on March 31, 2010 - 02:13  | 313 reads

“5” Persian and Sufi influenced poems

First published on March 25, 2010 - 03:48  | 304 reads

I a bowerbird enlisted on my flight

First published on March 25, 2010 - 02:12  | 303 reads

Where’s that crowning fortress

First published on March 9, 2010 - 04:00  | 320 reads

The dying flame you might expire

First published on March 9, 2010 - 00:32  | 260 reads

An unfinished song

First published on February 22, 2010 - 01:52  | 362 reads

Nap of monarch’s wing

First published on February 22, 2010 - 00:22  | 332 reads

What we now know as our kingdom

First published on February 10, 2010 - 03:17  | 373 reads

The first unsullied snowdrop

First published on February 9, 2010 - 21:08  | 384 reads

Traces of an eternal flame

First published on January 26, 2010 - 02:50  | 303 reads

The one my soul abides

First published on January 11, 2010 - 20:52  | 263 reads

How royally Avant-garde am I?

First published on January 7, 2010 - 18:13  | 301 reads

Visionless—puppeteers

First published on January 3, 2010 - 18:45  | 358 reads

In the staging of opposites!

First published on January 2, 2010 - 00:54  | 298 reads

To live beyond the sunrise!

First published on December 21, 2009 - 23:37  | 320 reads

Our way-would calling?

First published on December 11, 2009 - 03:04  | 322 reads

On fairy lit night

First published on December 6, 2009 - 17:27  | 323 reads

The cat’s cradle

First published on December 6, 2009 - 17:26  | 338 reads

All and sundry loosely delved

First published on December 6, 2009 - 16:58  | 300 reads

Outpourings... perfection!

First published on December 1, 2009 - 03:16  | 329 reads

A tropical thunder

First published on December 1, 2009 - 03:11  | 303 reads

She wore the ribbons

First published on December 1, 2009 - 03:02  | 300 reads

The decency threshold

First published on November 24, 2009 - 03:21  | 309 reads

A cradle of time

First published on November 19, 2009 - 01:28  | 371 reads

The foot and mouth crisis 2001

First published on November 18, 2009 - 23:47  | 371 reads

My babe has got those baby blues...

First published on November 10, 2009 - 19:50  | 300 reads

I’ve got a foghorn angel

First published on November 10, 2009 - 19:40  | 343 reads

It’s just as simple as that?

First published on November 9, 2009 - 22:58  | 323 reads

In-between life and death

First published on November 9, 2009 - 22:55  | 370 reads

For you

First published on November 9, 2009 - 22:53  | 323 reads

Winds of October

First published on November 8, 2009 - 10:24  | 309 reads

Divergent rivers

First published on November 8, 2009 - 10:18  | 343 reads

Ahead; anew moon, raises falsehood.

First published on November 2, 2009 - 01:10  | 373 reads

Dispatching doves

First published on November 1, 2009 - 22:30  | 344 reads

A prescription of love

First published on November 1, 2009 - 15:19  | 332 reads

Winters last apple

First published on October 28, 2009 - 15:14  | 382 reads

Windswept shadows...

First published on October 24, 2009 - 14:15  | 343 reads

Wisdom

First published on October 18, 2009 - 18:03  | 315 reads

When winter does wrestle death

First published on October 18, 2009 - 16:09  | 328 reads

The last visit and conversion…

First published on October 15, 2009 - 00:00  | 349 reads

Out on the street

First published on October 14, 2009 - 21:32  | 350 reads

Death

First published on October 10, 2009 - 15:01  | 348 reads

FEAR...

First published on October 10, 2009 - 15:00  | 334 reads

Go us to my protector

First published on October 10, 2009 - 14:56  | 311 reads

STARS

First published on October 6, 2009 - 23:53  | 371 reads

Rounded in the ways of life

First published on October 6, 2009 - 23:52  | 329 reads

Communion souls

First published on October 6, 2009 - 20:56  | 320 reads

To wake arise for the dawn to keep

First published on October 6, 2009 - 20:52  | 315 reads

He's the boy I loved

First published on October 6, 2009 - 20:49  | 332 reads

Is he now rounded into all of The Three Graces?

First published on September 29, 2009 - 22:32  | 350 reads

Autumn’s beauty transcends

First published on September 7, 2009 - 23:08  | 362 reads

Oh, Haven’t we all of us

First published on September 2, 2009 - 08:44  | 368 reads

I can promise you, I smiled.

First published on September 1, 2009 - 22:37  | 345 reads

VII Stanzas

First published on August 12, 2009 - 22:51  | 400 reads

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

First published on July 21, 2009 - 23:19  | 295 reads

You sent an unexpected letter

First published on July 21, 2009 - 23:05  | 357 reads

Swim the lengths of your love

First published on July 15, 2009 - 01:18  | 352 reads

Miles of wheeling clouds

First published on July 15, 2009 - 01:16  | 366 reads

Do the British take their brollies?

First published on July 15, 2009 - 01:09  | 402 reads

Milkwort tureen

First published on July 3, 2009 - 02:28  | 355 reads

Here, There & Everywhere

First published on June 22, 2009 - 00:47  | 370 reads

Choirs in the night wake me

First published on June 22, 2009 - 00:16  | 343 reads

Afrikaner, Caribbean

First published on June 22, 2009 - 00:14  | 411 reads

If my love were like a siren

First published on June 20, 2009 - 11:41  | 350 reads

Like a dried up flower in a button hole

First published on June 20, 2009 - 11:29  | 383 reads

Lucinda

First published on June 19, 2009 - 11:31  | 397 reads

Time is a winged chariot

First published on June 16, 2009 - 23:59  | 346 reads

Sanatorium, women

First published on June 16, 2009 - 23:06  | 363 reads

Afraid you’d lose your virtue

First published on June 16, 2009 - 20:31  | 328 reads

The heart whispers

First published on June 9, 2009 - 07:38  | 330 reads

She wore a feather bower

First published on June 9, 2009 - 02:29  | 587 reads

I sang you a love song...

First published on June 9, 2009 - 01:00  | 474 reads

Paint palette

First published on June 3, 2009 - 17:10  | 360 reads

When, you became a reality

First published on June 3, 2009 - 17:08  | 367 reads

One day, one step at a time

First published on June 3, 2009 - 17:04  | 334 reads

Winters autumnal beauty the discreet

First published on May 31, 2009 - 23:36  | 367 reads

They wish their hearts weren’t dead

First published on May 24, 2009 - 16:39  | 365 reads

Bleary eyed beauty in aromas sweet

First published on May 20, 2009 - 23:47  | 345 reads

When, you became a reality

First published on May 12, 2009 - 02:15  | 360 reads

Butterfly

First published on May 12, 2009 - 02:12  | 437 reads

The feeling I’m feeling...

First published on May 12, 2009 - 02:09  | 403 reads

Gift me what I want

First published on May 11, 2009 - 22:52  | 381 reads

A pond fly

First published on April 14, 2009 - 04:03  | 425 reads

Raft of souls

First published on April 14, 2009 - 04:01  | 418 reads

She wolf

First published on April 14, 2009 - 03:58  | 368 reads

Oh what do you really, quietly, feel?

First published on April 14, 2009 - 03:56  | 373 reads

The strumpet

First published on April 14, 2009 - 03:53  | 468 reads

In spring temporary southwest

First published on April 2, 2009 - 01:18  | 368 reads

Love is a window starlit bright

First published on March 11, 2009 - 02:01  | 402 reads

Her touches are like snow icicles

First published on February 25, 2009 - 04:09  | 413 reads

Our love is like a little Jenny wren

First published on February 25, 2009 - 02:47  | 413 reads

Damien angel

First published on February 25, 2009 - 02:44  | 439 reads

My heart is a cactus flower

First published on February 18, 2009 - 19:04  | 441 reads

Hallelujah for a women’s love

First published on February 18, 2009 - 18:37  | 330 reads

If you but wish

First published on February 16, 2009 - 00:12  | 392 reads

My heart once a butterfly

First published on February 16, 2009 - 00:10  | 403 reads

Prudence

First published on February 16, 2009 - 00:07  | 389 reads

Have faith in my hand

First published on February 15, 2009 - 22:38  | 348 reads

My heart once a butterfly

First published on February 15, 2009 - 21:35  | 320 reads

Another valentine!

First published on February 14, 2009 - 12:46  | 495 reads

California sunshine

First published on February 14, 2009 - 12:08  | 368 reads

There’s a rose in thistle called love

First published on February 11, 2009 - 03:13  | 466 reads

Be then he a man who is manly

First published on February 10, 2009 - 22:06  | 398 reads

When you look across the glass

First published on February 10, 2009 - 22:01  | 360 reads

Her love hearts tune!

First published on February 10, 2009 - 22:00  | 359 reads

The world is a feather within your palm

First published on February 10, 2009 - 21:58  | 347 reads

Divisions of vanity

First published on February 3, 2009 - 08:57  | 398 reads

Questions of adultery

First published on February 2, 2009 - 19:13  | 382 reads

The juryman hammers!

First published on January 31, 2009 - 18:58  | 406 reads

Ode to a catfish

First published on January 30, 2009 - 02:15  | 447 reads

All will come to understand?

First published on January 29, 2009 - 22:41  | 407 reads

Babylon’s garden

First published on January 29, 2009 - 22:30  | 438 reads

I say; if every man became more and more feminine!

First published on January 29, 2009 - 16:15  | 391 reads

Love you’ve got beauty

First published on January 27, 2009 - 17:59  | 390 reads

Once shone and stood for us all

First published on January 22, 2009 - 03:11  | 362 reads

Epée duel?

First published on January 22, 2009 - 01:45  | 492 reads

In life’s last lurch

First published on January 22, 2009 - 01:40  | 400 reads

So many words but only one! “love”?

First published on January 18, 2009 - 10:17  | 422 reads

A long-time dead and forgotten!

First published on January 18, 2009 - 03:10  | 406 reads

Apposing purple—day?

First published on January 18, 2009 - 02:45  | 455 reads

For a short time—only?!

First published on January 14, 2009 - 18:44  | 475 reads

Together there is music

First published on January 14, 2009 - 18:41  | 421 reads

If I a season more than you—miss my cue

First published on January 14, 2009 - 18:39  | 392 reads

Uniform of scares

First published on January 14, 2009 - 18:35  | 397 reads

Octagon-love

First published on January 14, 2009 - 18:34  | 412 reads

Anne Frank

First published on January 14, 2009 - 18:33  | 490 reads

In loves gainsay

First published on January 4, 2009 - 14:28  | 417 reads

Sea of empty space

First published on January 4, 2009 - 14:25  | 418 reads

Times immoral guest

First published on January 4, 2009 - 14:21  | 405 reads

For a short time—only?!

First published on January 4, 2009 - 14:16  | 425 reads

Spick and span leather shoes

First published on January 4, 2009 - 14:14  | 473 reads

triangular

First published on December 6, 2008 - 19:29  | 446 reads

Language is the kingdom

First published on December 6, 2008 - 19:27  | 408 reads

To seed the steps of heaven

First published on December 6, 2008 - 19:26  | 463 reads

A white Christmas

First published on December 6, 2008 - 19:22  | 445 reads

Death is a luxury

First published on November 11, 2008 - 23:00  | 466 reads

When I Neptune wear my Naught less

First published on November 11, 2008 - 22:54  | 693 reads

If I were a Tree

First published on November 11, 2008 - 22:53  | 405 reads

If love was a pocket-watch

First published on November 9, 2008 - 17:08  | 416 reads

Time sifts through an hour glass

First published on November 9, 2008 - 17:06  | 414 reads

Days swiftly passing

First published on November 9, 2008 - 17:04  | 464 reads

Rumble in the jungle

First published on November 9, 2008 - 17:01  | 476 reads

Deceit and lies

First published on October 31, 2008 - 00:13  | 460 reads

A red-roaring foot-tapping jukebox

First published on October 30, 2008 - 23:46  | 438 reads

The Credit crunch

First published on October 29, 2008 - 16:38  | 449 reads

Let this pilgrim’s sin, inaugurate

First published on October 26, 2008 - 17:49  | 422 reads

The bell of Knutsford’s many throng

First published on October 26, 2008 - 17:45  | 434 reads

A temporal vision

First published on October 25, 2008 - 10:18  | 449 reads

Lamenting hearts

First published on October 25, 2008 - 08:27  | 416 reads

A distant kind of love

First published on October 25, 2008 - 08:25  | 460 reads

Weight of love

First published on October 24, 2008 - 13:43  | 459 reads

Pink raindrops

First published on October 24, 2008 - 13:13  | 413 reads

Sunspot shadows

First published on October 24, 2008 - 13:05  | 441 reads

Men would quake in their opium hearts

First published on October 23, 2008 - 10:25  | 407 reads

The cradle of the chosen!

First published on October 23, 2008 - 10:23  | 417 reads

O” child of mine grow no-older

First published on October 23, 2008 - 10:22  | 453 reads

Like a little pot of gold

First published on October 23, 2008 - 10:19  | 373 reads

Smiles the choice of rose hips hue

First published on October 14, 2008 - 07:37  | 440 reads

O’ Maiden of a quiet, mournful, repose

First published on October 14, 2008 - 00:14  | 417 reads

The greyer the storm light folds

First published on October 13, 2008 - 23:11  | 427 reads

Who stars in our night?

First published on October 13, 2008 - 23:01  | 410 reads

All long' the reign of absorption

First published on October 13, 2008 - 23:00  | 392 reads

Can I bask in the meadow?

First published on October 13, 2008 - 22:56  | 506 reads

Your love is like a pinnacle

First published on October 12, 2008 - 15:01  | 444 reads

Store teller’ with aqua green eyes’

First published on October 12, 2008 - 14:43  | 499 reads

So pale and hurtfully prissy

First published on October 11, 2008 - 16:19  | 424 reads

She put a rind around the world

First published on October 11, 2008 - 16:11  | 404 reads

All long' the reign of absorption

First published on October 11, 2008 - 16:09  | 455 reads

A poet’s epitaph

First published on October 7, 2008 - 17:46  | 651 reads

If beauty could let her love to me

First published on October 7, 2008 - 17:45  | 369 reads

A Joy if heaven is perpetually bright!

First published on October 7, 2008 - 17:42  | 449 reads

If beauty could let her love to me

First published on October 6, 2008 - 01:59  | 445 reads

The music of one’s love is deaf and dumb

First published on October 5, 2008 - 23:55  | 428 reads

The garden

First published on October 5, 2008 - 23:49  | 431 reads

An accommodating beggar

First published on October 5, 2008 - 23:47  | 431 reads

His fallow beasts in prayer go humble

First published on October 2, 2008 - 02:31  | 401 reads

The soul of eternal love

First published on October 2, 2008 - 02:27  | 444 reads

Schizophrenics

First published on October 2, 2008 - 02:25  | 446 reads

A pilgrim’s question

First published on October 2, 2008 - 02:20  | 488 reads

Cot death

First published on September 28, 2008 - 10:20  | 459 reads

So pale and hurtfully prissy

First published on September 18, 2008 - 00:25  | 478 reads

Prophecies of a vision

First published on September 16, 2008 - 18:31  | 442 reads

Shining like a bride’s eyes

First published on September 14, 2008 - 17:08  | 512 reads

Your love is like a pinnacle

First published on September 2, 2008 - 01:04  | 442 reads

The soul of eternal love

First published on September 2, 2008 - 00:58  | 445 reads

kingdom of the wind

First published on September 2, 2008 - 00:52  | 498 reads

The music of one’s love is deaf and dumb

First published on September 2, 2008 - 00:47  | 469 reads

Daybreak

First published on August 19, 2008 - 00:57  | 516 reads

To walk in nature as Wordsworth

First published on August 19, 2008 - 00:51  | 522 reads

Waiting on all, you; have to say

First published on July 15, 2008 - 01:47  | 490 reads

What would this life be, like?

First published on July 15, 2008 - 00:26  | 471 reads

Put a compress on my heart

First published on July 14, 2008 - 23:21  | 565 reads

My lord: My honesty

First published on July 14, 2008 - 22:33  | 484 reads

Sad Susie

First published on July 9, 2008 - 09:39  | 515 reads

Binary butterflies

First published on July 9, 2008 - 01:12  | 488 reads

Everest

First published on July 8, 2008 - 23:10  | 480 reads

The wood cutter

First published on July 6, 2008 - 22:17  | 500 reads

You are our cradle in the water

First published on July 3, 2008 - 23:34  | 472 reads

By the river of contemplation

First published on July 3, 2008 - 23:19  | 537 reads

Lamenting ladies

First published on July 3, 2008 - 13:02  | 468 reads

The lord of Catchers-Can

First published on July 3, 2008 - 12:46  | 526 reads

Till the dawn-light ember lilts

First published on July 1, 2008 - 21:34  | 454 reads

On the wings of youth

First published on July 1, 2008 - 21:28  | 468 reads

My boyhood lover

First published on June 26, 2008 - 14:16  | 537 reads

The greyer the storm light folds

First published on June 25, 2008 - 14:49  | 496 reads

Raspberry canes

First published on June 25, 2008 - 14:45  | 510 reads

Lions lie down like corndogs

First published on June 24, 2008 - 10:10  | 487 reads

In these cormorant hours spent swift

First published on June 23, 2008 - 23:43  | 481 reads

Messed up riches

First published on June 23, 2008 - 21:47  | 496 reads

Through all our unending time

First published on June 19, 2008 - 01:45  | 463 reads

Immersed in anew mistress

First published on June 18, 2008 - 22:32  | 505 reads

Silk road

First published on June 18, 2008 - 19:21  | 495 reads

Finger on the pulse

First published on June 18, 2008 - 19:12  | 517 reads

I use to linger in the falling rain

First published on June 9, 2008 - 01:29  | 503 reads

It’s like a picture perfect morning

First published on June 9, 2008 - 01:23  | 460 reads

In love I'll run to you

First published on June 4, 2008 - 23:51  | 740 reads

Just enter my heart

First published on June 3, 2008 - 00:05  | 491 reads

Heavens torment

First published on June 2, 2008 - 20:06  | 511 reads

Binary butterflies

First published on June 2, 2008 - 19:59  | 530 reads

Phoenix like an evergreen thorn

First published on May 28, 2008 - 21:50  | 494 reads

A temporal vision

First published on May 28, 2008 - 21:47  | 538 reads

Beautiful creations

First published on May 27, 2008 - 19:02  | 533 reads

Final burst of flourishing stillness in the radiance of I?

First published on May 27, 2008 - 18:48  | 482 reads

It’s time to rest

First published on May 22, 2008 - 16:06  | 499 reads

What do I find in a kiss?

First published on May 20, 2008 - 17:43  | 519 reads

Damask rose

First published on May 20, 2008 - 17:37  | 572 reads

My love

First published on May 18, 2008 - 10:31  | 519 reads

Through sorrows of you

First published on May 18, 2008 - 10:15  | 506 reads

The bride

First published on May 13, 2008 - 18:29  | 542 reads

Candle wax sky

First published on May 13, 2008 - 18:25  | 584 reads

In love I'll run to you

First published on May 11, 2008 - 00:55  | 501 reads

Never to be mainstream

First published on May 11, 2008 - 00:30  | 490 reads

Lay still my beating heart!

First published on May 10, 2008 - 11:04  | 507 reads

Pale white beauty

First published on May 10, 2008 - 11:01  | 526 reads

But here today when love is true

First published on April 12, 2008 - 17:30  | 503 reads

The jarring of a midnight’s dew

First published on April 6, 2008 - 19:57  | 540 reads

See his ceiling lit with many a mirrored star

First published on April 6, 2008 - 19:52  | 540 reads