Mark Heathcote Poems

You are my lover
Don’t turn your back on us
Let us speak and discuss
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You've seen it in me
Whenever I was tongue-tied
Talking to you, almost all the time.
I had an uncontrollable itch
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Sweet little violet
Why do you suffer in the dark?
When you live in my heart
What postromantic injury,
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That might just break someday…
And like some little kite
Might even, take a solo flight.
…Away from me - someday.
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When we shutter the windows
and a force nine Beaufort gale picks up
and we all wonder what
we're all hiding from.
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Happier than light when it glows
I look and measure the stars
And know.
Luminosity is only a melting snow
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I've curled up and listened to the night
Pining away with fright
You'll never remember me
And return to switch back on the light.
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As the petals fall
shimmer like ghosts
in and around a belfry arch
with the last of the light
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Shake, wake-up the chandler
We’re readying too sail and go,
These seas they’re all to becalmed
It’s time for us we must go.
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Strong and cruel
Keep me mean
I'm leaving school
It's time to fight for freedom
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