Delighted to have these 2 love poems published by brilliant Editor Nolcha Fox in Chewers by Masticadores. Love the presentation.

2 Poems by Strider Marcus Jones

2 Poems by Strider Marcus Jones

SO OPEN, BUT SO SILENT TO YOURSELF

so open, but so silent to yourself,
like missing books messing up a shelf-
some unfinished, the others read,
somewhere else in someone’s head.
reason is reluctant to be heard
in conscience corrupt by tyranny blurred-
so leave the breaks in moorland grass,
and bound
unfound
where hours don’t turn round
inside this glass
duplicity and old division
of curtained cell
instead of prism
equal and parallel-
go, go without trace
into uncovered space
revealing your own face.

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VACANT ROOMS

take my thoughts with you,
as I cast them into the ocean,
and let the seagulls drown my words,
from cliffs where clouds sweep low.

wild, wind-swept spray, spits
at time turned rocks,
and stands them impotent too-
on sands that shift:

like truths, turned false and cut loose,
like flesh, that fades on a bone-bleached sky;
it hurts to set the past free-
and live in vacant rooms.

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