Mark Heathcote

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I have 597 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 330907 times and 9 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Mark Heathcote

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Wings and caterpillars

Still - they have shoulder blades of flight And like green caterpillars - will again. Aren’t wingless butterflies ugly as sin?

Love waits tables

Love waits tables and passes the salt Love is a that preverbal thunderbolt Love leans over a winter’s bowl Of pearl barley, soup Love is the one you, affectionately, Called a nincompoop!

Love on resin setting fire

Oh white Jasmine flower Love on resin setting fire Incense burning in my soul Catching me on fire Oh white Jasmine flower I’m extracting oils Wonderfully, heavenly

My heart is a hanging garden of Babylon

Forgive my Babylon temperate floods… There’s no evil in my sodden roots So forgive my Babylonian Dynasty Oh forgive me in all honesty I can’t help the debris I leave

These are my mountains…

Do you remember the hand? That shook the cradle And drew the shape of Africa And that land of America, A Land of Hope and Glory… Do you remember the hand? That shook the cradle

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