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Really chuffed to have 11 poems published on The Peregrine Muse Arts/Humanities website https://sites.google.com/site/thepere...

https://sites.google.com/site/theperegrinemuseii/home/jones

 

Delighted to have two of my poems published in Issue 2 of The Curly Mindhttps://thecurlymindblog.wordpress.co...

Life is Flamenco by Strider Marcus Jones

 

I’m Getting Old Now by Strider Marcus Jones

 

Thrilled to have a poem published in mgv2 Issue83, January 1st 2016 http://issuu.com/mgversion2/docs/mg83

 

 

Delighted to have a poem in Thirteen Ways Magazine January 2016/Volume 2/Issue 1http://thirteenwaysmagazine.com/

http://thirteenwaysmagazine.com/

Thirteen Ways Volume II, Issue I features:

Poetry by Jennifer Clark, Richard Heby, Strider Marcus Jones, Corey Mesler, Al Ortolani, Kenneth Salzmann, and Andrea Wyatt; fiction by James Mulhern and Monika McGreal Viola; visual media by Gabriel Folli, Kelli Funkhouser, and Frank Light; and collaborative art by Willie Caldwell, Ryan McHugh, and Tanner Upthegrove.

http://thirteenwaysmagazine.com/wp-content/Thirteen%20Ways%201.1.16%20Print%20version.pdf

MIRROR, MIRROR by Strider Marcus Jones

Source: MIRROR, MIRROR by Strider Marcus Jones 

Honoured to have 4 poems in A New Ulster Voices for Peace Anthology December 2015http://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu_p...

 

Thrilled to have 6 of my poems in Issue 39 of A New Ulster. Thankye to Editor, Amos Greig http://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu_i...

 

 

http://www.deepwaterliterary.com/home... Delighted to have 3 of my poems accepted for the 2016-Issue 1 of Deep Water Literary Journal.

http://www.deepwaterliterary.com/home/4582555292

 

https://thecurlymindblog.wordpress.co... Reuben Woolley on publishing the first issue of The Curly Mind. Brilliant work from some amazing poets and thankye for publishing two of my poems in this issue.

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Delighted to have 3 poems published by Antarctica Journal http://antarcticajournal.com/poem-low...

POEM – LOW VAULTED CEILINGS (BY STRIDER MARCUS JONES)
October 16, 2015 Antarctica Journal

within those man stone walls

promoting their god

bringing us to him

i told the priest-

you tell us to be content

with poverty

while you live in this big house

throwing us scraps

begged from money lenders.

this is not what Jesus

asked his disciples to do.

this is not what he died for.

he said live amongst us

and share what they have.

the priest,

red with rage,

oppressive and oppressed-

pulled my mam aside

made her shrink in his stare

weep in his words

walk me in our sins

from his dark-damp house of angels.

outside

in feral sunshine

i pointed to grinning gargoyles

chasing chastened shadows

back down primitive paths-

to a cellar flat,

bare bulb dangling

prison beam probing

baptised flesh

and mam tipped tears

soaking into straw mattresses

sucking up cold from the flagstone floor

woodworms eating a Van Gogh table

where six mouths sat

sharing stale bread and cold beans

with whiskered skirting board mice.

years later,

i left Dedalus in Dublin

in the pages of a book

to his epiphany

and Jesuit suit of guilt-

while i quenched

my glistening fruit

in street light ladies-

drenched in smokey curling

dancing clouds

and stories from voices

bouncing off low vaulted ceilings

caressing human in darkness.