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 234 stories in 2 collections on the site. My stories have been read 38108 times and 3 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

Where’s that crowning fortress

Submitted on March 9, 2010 - 03:00 | 28 reads

The dying flame you might expire

Submitted on March 8, 2010 - 23:32 | 22 reads

An unfinished song

Submitted on February 22, 2010 - 00:52 | 50 reads

Nap of monarch’s wing

Submitted on February 21, 2010 - 23:22 | 60 reads

What we now know as our kingdom

Submitted on February 10, 2010 - 02:17 | 86 reads

The first unsullied snowdrop

Submitted on February 9, 2010 - 20:08 | 85 reads

Traces of an eternal flame

Submitted on January 26, 2010 - 01:50 | 58 reads

The one my soul abides

Submitted on January 11, 2010 - 19:52 | 40 reads

How royally Avant-garde am I?

Submitted on January 7, 2010 - 17:13 | 55 reads

Visionless—puppeteers

Submitted on January 3, 2010 - 17:45 | 71 reads

In the staging of opposites!

Submitted on January 1, 2010 - 23:54 | 52 reads

To live beyond the sunrise!

Submitted on December 21, 2009 - 22:37 | 84 reads

Our way-would calling?

Submitted on December 11, 2009 - 02:04 | 66 reads

On fairy lit night

Submitted on December 6, 2009 - 16:27 | 71 reads

The cat’s cradle

Submitted on December 6, 2009 - 16:26 | 75 reads

All and sundry loosely delved

Submitted on December 6, 2009 - 15:58 | 65 reads

Outpourings... perfection!

Submitted on December 1, 2009 - 02:16 | 64 reads

A tropical thunder

Submitted on December 1, 2009 - 02:11 | 60 reads

She wore the ribbons

Submitted on December 1, 2009 - 02:02 | 57 reads

The decency threshold

Submitted on November 24, 2009 - 02:21 | 75 reads

A cradle of time

Submitted on November 19, 2009 - 00:28 | 107 reads

The foot and mouth crisis 2001

Submitted on November 18, 2009 - 22:47 | 113 reads

My babe has got those baby blues...

Submitted on November 10, 2009 - 18:50 | 69 reads

I’ve got a foghorn angel

Submitted on November 10, 2009 - 18:40 | 55 reads

It’s just as simple as that?

Submitted on November 9, 2009 - 21:58 | 75 reads

In-between life and death

Submitted on November 9, 2009 - 21:55 | 83 reads

For you

Submitted on November 9, 2009 - 21:53 | 62 reads

Winds of October

Submitted on November 8, 2009 - 09:24 | 61 reads

Divergent rivers

Submitted on November 8, 2009 - 09:18 | 63 reads

Ahead; anew moon, raises falsehood.

Submitted on November 2, 2009 - 00:10 | 88 reads

Dispatching doves

Submitted on November 1, 2009 - 21:30 | 87 reads

A prescription of love

Submitted on November 1, 2009 - 14:19 | 56 reads

Winters last apple

Submitted on October 28, 2009 - 14:14 | 78 reads

Windswept shadows...

Submitted on October 24, 2009 - 13:15 | 75 reads

Wisdom

Submitted on October 18, 2009 - 17:03 | 58 reads

When winter does wrestle death

Submitted on October 18, 2009 - 15:09 | 86 reads

The last visit and conversion…

Submitted on October 14, 2009 - 23:00 | 101 reads

Out on the street

Submitted on October 14, 2009 - 20:32 | 65 reads

Death

Submitted on October 10, 2009 - 14:01 | 67 reads

FEAR...

Submitted on October 10, 2009 - 14:00 | 69 reads

Go us to my protector

Submitted on October 10, 2009 - 13:56 | 66 reads

STARS

Submitted on October 6, 2009 - 22:53 | 71 reads

Rounded in the ways of life

Submitted on October 6, 2009 - 22:52 | 78 reads

Communion souls

Submitted on October 6, 2009 - 19:56 | 58 reads

To wake arise for the dawn to keep

Submitted on October 6, 2009 - 19:52 | 64 reads

He's the boy I loved

Submitted on October 6, 2009 - 19:49 | 60 reads

Is he now rounded into all of The Three Graces?

Submitted on September 29, 2009 - 21:32 | 108 reads

Autumn’s beauty transcends

Submitted on September 7, 2009 - 22:08 | 95 reads

Oh, Haven’t we all of us

Submitted on September 2, 2009 - 07:44 | 105 reads

I can promise you, I smiled.

Submitted on September 1, 2009 - 21:37 | 95 reads

VII Stanzas

Submitted on August 12, 2009 - 21:51 | 137 reads

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

Submitted on July 21, 2009 - 22:19 | 81 reads

You sent an unexpected letter

Submitted on July 21, 2009 - 22:05 | 85 reads

Swim the lengths of your love

Submitted on July 15, 2009 - 00:18 | 101 reads

Miles of wheeling clouds

Submitted on July 15, 2009 - 00:16 | 97 reads

Do the British take their brollies?

Submitted on July 15, 2009 - 00:09 | 148 reads

Milkwort tureen

Submitted on July 3, 2009 - 01:28 | 98 reads

Here, There & Everywhere

Submitted on June 21, 2009 - 23:47 | 113 reads

Choirs in the night wake me

Submitted on June 21, 2009 - 23:16 | 88 reads

Afrikaner, Caribbean

Submitted on June 21, 2009 - 23:14 | 75 reads

If my love were like a siren

Submitted on June 20, 2009 - 10:41 | 83 reads

Like a dried up flower in a button hole

Submitted on June 20, 2009 - 10:29 | 115 reads

Lucinda

Submitted on June 19, 2009 - 10:31 | 102 reads

Time is a winged chariot

Submitted on June 16, 2009 - 22:59 | 83 reads

Sanatorium, women

Submitted on June 16, 2009 - 22:06 | 90 reads

Afraid you’d lose your virtue

Submitted on June 16, 2009 - 19:31 | 103 reads

The heart whispers

Submitted on June 9, 2009 - 06:38 | 90 reads

She wore a feather bower

Submitted on June 9, 2009 - 01:29 | 146 reads

I sang you a love song...

Submitted on June 9, 2009 - 00:00 | 98 reads

Paint palette

Submitted on June 3, 2009 - 16:10 | 111 reads

When, you became a reality

Submitted on June 3, 2009 - 16:08 | 107 reads

One day, one step at a time

Submitted on June 3, 2009 - 16:04 | 104 reads

Winters autumnal beauty the discreet

Submitted on May 31, 2009 - 22:36 | 111 reads

They wish their hearts weren’t dead

Submitted on May 24, 2009 - 15:39 | 110 reads

Bleary eyed beauty in aromas sweet

Submitted on May 20, 2009 - 22:47 | 106 reads

When, you became a reality

Submitted on May 12, 2009 - 01:15 | 113 reads

Butterfly

Submitted on May 12, 2009 - 01:12 | 126 reads

The feeling I’m feeling...

Submitted on May 12, 2009 - 01:09 | 93 reads

Gift me what I want

Submitted on May 11, 2009 - 21:52 | 104 reads

A pond fly

Submitted on April 14, 2009 - 03:03 | 136 reads

Raft of souls

Submitted on April 14, 2009 - 03:01 | 109 reads

She wolf

Submitted on April 14, 2009 - 02:58 | 122 reads

Oh what do you really, quietly, feel?

Submitted on April 14, 2009 - 02:56 | 125 reads

The strumpet

Submitted on April 14, 2009 - 02:53 | 127 reads

In spring temporary southwest

Submitted on April 2, 2009 - 00:18 | 101 reads

Love is a window starlit bright

Submitted on March 11, 2009 - 01:01 | 132 reads

Her touches are like snow icicles

Submitted on February 25, 2009 - 03:09 | 150 reads

Our love is like a little Jenny wren

Submitted on February 25, 2009 - 01:47 | 125 reads

Damien angel

Submitted on February 25, 2009 - 01:44 | 133 reads

My heart is a cactus flower

Submitted on February 18, 2009 - 18:04 | 134 reads

Hallelujah for a women’s love

Submitted on February 18, 2009 - 17:37 | 124 reads

If you but wish

Submitted on February 15, 2009 - 23:12 | 145 reads

My heart once a butterfly

Submitted on February 15, 2009 - 23:10 | 138 reads

Prudence

Submitted on February 15, 2009 - 23:07 | 121 reads

Have faith in my hand

Submitted on February 15, 2009 - 21:38 | 123 reads

My heart once a butterfly

Submitted on February 15, 2009 - 20:35 | 114 reads

Another valentine!

Submitted on February 14, 2009 - 11:46 | 144 reads

California sunshine

Submitted on February 14, 2009 - 11:08 | 123 reads

There’s a rose in thistle called love

Submitted on February 11, 2009 - 02:13 | 220 reads

Be then he a man who is manly

Submitted on February 10, 2009 - 21:06 | 143 reads

When you look across the glass

Submitted on February 10, 2009 - 21:01 | 125 reads

Her love hearts tune!

Submitted on February 10, 2009 - 21:00 | 128 reads

The world is a feather within your palm

Submitted on February 10, 2009 - 20:58 | 132 reads

Divisions of vanity

Submitted on February 3, 2009 - 07:57 | 130 reads

Questions of adultery

Submitted on February 2, 2009 - 18:13 | 139 reads

The juryman hammers!

Submitted on January 31, 2009 - 17:58 | 139 reads

Ode to a catfish

Submitted on January 30, 2009 - 01:15 | 165 reads

All will come to understand?

Submitted on January 29, 2009 - 21:41 | 142 reads

Babylon’s garden

Submitted on January 29, 2009 - 21:30 | 144 reads

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

Submitted on January 29, 2009 - 15:15 | 162 reads

Love you’ve got beauty

Submitted on January 27, 2009 - 16:59 | 144 reads

Once shone and stood for us all

Submitted on January 22, 2009 - 02:11 | 149 reads

Epée duel?

Submitted on January 22, 2009 - 00:45 | 191 reads

In life’s last lurch

Submitted on January 22, 2009 - 00:40 | 150 reads

So many words but only one! “love”?

Submitted on January 18, 2009 - 09:17 | 197 reads

A long-time dead and forgotten!

Submitted on January 18, 2009 - 02:10 | 162 reads

Apposing purple—day?

Submitted on January 18, 2009 - 01:45 | 179 reads

For a short time—only?!

Submitted on January 14, 2009 - 17:44 | 197 reads

Together there is music

Submitted on January 14, 2009 - 17:41 | 153 reads

If I a season more than you—miss my cue

Submitted on January 14, 2009 - 17:39 | 148 reads

Uniform of scares

Submitted on January 14, 2009 - 17:35 | 135 reads

Octagon-love

Submitted on January 14, 2009 - 17:34 | 170 reads

Anne Frank

Submitted on January 14, 2009 - 17:33 | 146 reads

In loves gainsay

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:28 | 154 reads

Sea of empty space

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:25 | 157 reads

Times immoral guest

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:21 | 147 reads

For a short time—only?!

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:16 | 150 reads

Spick and span leather shoes

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:14 | 212 reads

triangular

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 18:29 | 173 reads

Language is the kingdom

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 18:27 | 167 reads

To seed the steps of heaven

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 18:26 | 186 reads

A white Christmas

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 18:22 | 164 reads

Death is a luxury

Submitted on November 11, 2008 - 22:00 | 195 reads

When I Neptune wear my Naught less

Submitted on November 11, 2008 - 21:54 | 336 reads

If I were a Tree

Submitted on November 11, 2008 - 21:53 | 175 reads

If love was a pocket-watch

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 16:08 | 176 reads

Time sifts through an hour glass

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 16:06 | 196 reads

Days swiftly passing

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 16:04 | 168 reads

Rumble in the jungle

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 16:01 | 205 reads

Deceit and lies

Submitted on October 30, 2008 - 23:13 | 213 reads

A red-roaring foot-tapping jukebox

Submitted on October 30, 2008 - 22:46 | 189 reads

The Credit crunch

Submitted on October 29, 2008 - 15:38 | 188 reads

Let this pilgrim’s sin, inaugurate

Submitted on October 26, 2008 - 16:49 | 196 reads

The bell of Knutsford’s many throng

Submitted on October 26, 2008 - 16:45 | 180 reads

A temporal vision

Submitted on October 25, 2008 - 09:18 | 191 reads

Lamenting hearts

Submitted on October 25, 2008 - 07:27 | 166 reads

A distant kind of love

Submitted on October 25, 2008 - 07:25 | 183 reads

Weight of love

Submitted on October 24, 2008 - 12:43 | 171 reads

Pink raindrops

Submitted on October 24, 2008 - 12:13 | 173 reads

Sunspot shadows

Submitted on October 24, 2008 - 12:05 | 179 reads

Men would quake in their opium hearts

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 09:25 | 182 reads

The cradle of the chosen!

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 09:23 | 179 reads

O” child of mine grow no-older

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 09:22 | 216 reads

Like a little pot of gold

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 09:19 | 170 reads

Smiles the choice of rose hips hue

Submitted on October 14, 2008 - 06:37 | 206 reads

O’ Maiden of a quiet, mournful, repose

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 23:14 | 199 reads

The greyer the storm light folds

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 22:11 | 177 reads

Who stars in our night?

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 22:01 | 170 reads

All long' the reign of absorption

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 22:00 | 173 reads

Can I bask in the meadow?

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 21:56 | 243 reads

Your love is like a pinnacle

Submitted on October 12, 2008 - 14:01 | 184 reads

Store teller’ with aqua green eyes’

Submitted on October 12, 2008 - 13:43 | 258 reads

So pale and hurtfully prissy

Submitted on October 11, 2008 - 15:19 | 207 reads

She put a rind around the world

Submitted on October 11, 2008 - 15:11 | 192 reads

All long' the reign of absorption

Submitted on October 11, 2008 - 15:09 | 185 reads

A poet’s epitaph

Submitted on October 7, 2008 - 16:46 | 217 reads

If beauty could let her love to me

Submitted on October 7, 2008 - 16:45 | 182 reads

A Joy if heaven is perpetually bright!

Submitted on October 7, 2008 - 16:42 | 184 reads

If beauty could let her love to me

Submitted on October 6, 2008 - 00:59 | 231 reads

The music of one’s love is deaf and dumb

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 22:55 | 229 reads

The garden

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 22:49 | 192 reads

An accommodating beggar

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 22:47 | 197 reads

His fallow beasts in prayer go humble

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:31 | 185 reads

The soul of eternal love

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:27 | 217 reads

Schizophrenics

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:25 | 217 reads

A pilgrim’s question

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:20 | 219 reads

Cot death

Submitted on September 28, 2008 - 09:20 | 219 reads

So pale and hurtfully prissy

Submitted on September 17, 2008 - 23:25 | 238 reads

Prophecies of a vision

Submitted on September 16, 2008 - 17:31 | 221 reads

Shining like a bride’s eyes

Submitted on September 14, 2008 - 16:08 | 240 reads

Your love is like a pinnacle

Submitted on September 2, 2008 - 00:04 | 214 reads

The soul of eternal love

Submitted on September 1, 2008 - 23:58 | 213 reads

kingdom of the wind

Submitted on September 1, 2008 - 23:52 | 258 reads

The music of one’s love is deaf and dumb

Submitted on September 1, 2008 - 23:47 | 269 reads

Daybreak

Submitted on August 18, 2008 - 23:57 | 221 reads

To walk in nature as Wordsworth

Submitted on August 18, 2008 - 23:51 | 271 reads

Waiting on all, you; have to say

Submitted on July 15, 2008 - 00:47 | 243 reads

What would this life be, like?

Submitted on July 14, 2008 - 23:26 | 255 reads

Put a compress on my heart

Submitted on July 14, 2008 - 22:21 | 273 reads

My lord: My honesty

Submitted on July 14, 2008 - 21:33 | 225 reads

Sad Susie

Submitted on July 9, 2008 - 08:39 | 239 reads

Binary butterflies

Submitted on July 9, 2008 - 00:12 | 241 reads

Everest

Submitted on July 8, 2008 - 22:10 | 235 reads

The wood cutter

Submitted on July 6, 2008 - 21:17 | 239 reads

You are our cradle in the water

Submitted on July 3, 2008 - 22:34 | 255 reads

By the river of contemplation

Submitted on July 3, 2008 - 22:19 | 248 reads

Lamenting ladies

Submitted on July 3, 2008 - 12:02 | 244 reads

The lord of Catchers-Can

Submitted on July 3, 2008 - 11:46 | 256 reads

Till the dawn-light ember lilts

Submitted on July 1, 2008 - 20:34 | 222 reads

On the wings of youth

Submitted on July 1, 2008 - 20:28 | 229 reads

My boyhood lover

Submitted on June 26, 2008 - 13:16 | 271 reads

The greyer the storm light folds

Submitted on June 25, 2008 - 13:49 | 253 reads

Raspberry canes

Submitted on June 25, 2008 - 13:45 | 265 reads

Lions lie down like corndogs

Submitted on June 24, 2008 - 09:10 | 282 reads

In these cormorant hours spent swift

Submitted on June 23, 2008 - 22:43 | 242 reads

Messed up riches

Submitted on June 23, 2008 - 20:47 | 259 reads

Through all our unending time

Submitted on June 19, 2008 - 00:45 | 265 reads

Immersed in anew mistress

Submitted on June 18, 2008 - 21:32 | 271 reads

Silk road

Submitted on June 18, 2008 - 18:21 | 262 reads

Finger on the pulse

Submitted on June 18, 2008 - 18:12 | 265 reads

I use to linger in the falling rain

Submitted on June 9, 2008 - 00:29 | 269 reads

It’s like a picture perfect morning

Submitted on June 9, 2008 - 00:23 | 255 reads

In love I'll run to you

Submitted on June 4, 2008 - 22:51 | 384 reads

Just enter my heart

Submitted on June 2, 2008 - 23:05 | 257 reads

Heavens torment

Submitted on June 2, 2008 - 19:06 | 259 reads

Binary butterflies

Submitted on June 2, 2008 - 18:59 | 287 reads

Phoenix like an evergreen thorn

Submitted on May 28, 2008 - 20:50 | 259 reads

A temporal vision

Submitted on May 28, 2008 - 20:47 | 278 reads

Beautiful creations

Submitted on May 27, 2008 - 18:02 | 284 reads

Final burst of flourishing stillness in the radiance of I?

Submitted on May 27, 2008 - 17:48 | 270 reads

It’s time to rest

Submitted on May 22, 2008 - 15:06 | 247 reads

What do I find in a kiss?

Submitted on May 20, 2008 - 16:43 | 261 reads

Damask rose

Submitted on May 20, 2008 - 16:37 | 280 reads

My love

Submitted on May 18, 2008 - 09:31 | 282 reads

Through sorrows of you

Submitted on May 18, 2008 - 09:15 | 262 reads

The bride

Submitted on May 13, 2008 - 17:29 | 276 reads

Candle wax sky

Submitted on May 13, 2008 - 17:25 | 304 reads

In love I'll run to you

Submitted on May 10, 2008 - 23:55 | 272 reads

Never to be mainstream

Submitted on May 10, 2008 - 23:30 | 253 reads

Lay still my beating heart!

Submitted on May 10, 2008 - 10:04 | 255 reads

Pale white beauty

Submitted on May 10, 2008 - 10:01 | 284 reads

But here today when love is true

Submitted on April 12, 2008 - 16:30 | 264 reads

The jarring of a midnight’s dew

Submitted on April 6, 2008 - 18:57 | 288 reads

See his ceiling lit with many a mirrored star

Submitted on April 6, 2008 - 18:52 | 298 reads