Really chuffed to have three poems published by dedicated editor Nolcha Fox in Chewers by Masticadores on 20th May 2025.

3 Poems by Strider Marcus Jones

3 Poems by Strider Marcus Jones

SHEDDING CLOTHES

some soul exposed
open closed
looked at
put back
where it was
because

because
it was done
being in sun
unalterably changed
randomness rearranged
moving on

moving on
rising out of what has gone
through opaqueless
weightless
windows
shedding clothes.

~~

YOU’RE SO OPEN, BUT SILENT TO YOURSELF

you’re so open, but silent to yourself
like messed books lying on a shelf-
some unfinished, others read,
now in someone else’s head.

reason meets reluctance to be heard
by what is fascist and absurd,
so walk through wind wild grass
and outlaw canyon pass-

touch the rainbows in the rocks
time beyond our conflicts clocks
in shaman trance understand
truth transcends books banned

and all the lands stolen
through greed swollen-
return when nature’s fate
destroys hubris and hate-

so be gone a while
belief in a smile.

~~

LOOKING IN LOVE’S GLASS

looking in love’s glass
at what we have drank
and haven’t drunk
to quench our thirst
slow and fast
not the first
not the last-
beauty is flesh
is your womanliness
and i find
your mind
grows branches into mine
we climb-
so compatible
and indelible,
to others forgettable
crashed dream
on screen-
we know
we go
out of scene

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