Mark Heathcote

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I have 597 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
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Mark Heathcote

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Let this pilgrim’s sin, inaugurate

Unnerve! Mine-eye That I might, see! That hand that stirs... Upon an unequivocal sky and sea; Lead me through that lowly pastoral gate. Let this nomad’s world abate.

The bell of Knutsford’s many throng

A young queen dances around the Knutsford maypole! As though she lingered within some fathomless dream Lifting joyful ribbon arms like a linnet on the breeze;

A temporal vision

A temporal vision That’s what I had When I was a child I walked not as a lad But as a lord or a man Wandering, wistfully, blissfully tall Wild and mad, hand in hand

Lamenting hearts

Lamenting hearts will always break- Like, shimmering coals in the grate; But before they can honour this? They’ll burn with a simmering, kiss That they and their fated-

A distant kind of love

A dove calls her mate in the moon But a sea wind calls, go not to soon... For the night is young in circles new The waves are rolling deep and blue. So’ it is for you; the world was made

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