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    Mavericks: Love & Other Poesms
    Mavericks: Love & Other Poesms
    Mavericks: Love & Other Poesms
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    Mavericks: Love & Other Poesms

    By Strider Marcus Jones

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    Essentially, these poems are about Man and Woman and Love. Romantic and sometimes intimate, they leave their own footsteps in the rural and industrial landscape of today which resonate our profound need to love and be loved, a need that transcends all attempts to homogenise us into one cultural identity. In these poems romance, chivalry and passion come to life. The Ranger's mind enjoys its exile in the golden forest of Lothlorien wandering through the Pre Raphaelite images. His mythical and mystical ideals, fuse with our thirst for realism and the alienation of pod life in this matrix of Metropolis. Love is more than a singles bar at the end of a hard working week. It is real and tangible, and like life, it makes mistakes. In these poems of love remembered, love now and love to be, exile ends and life begins again.. Strider
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 6, 2011
    ISBN9781447611073
    Mavericks: Love & Other Poesms

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      Mavericks - Strider Marcus Jones

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      Mavericks

      Love & Other Poesms

      Strider Marcus Jones

      Copyright 2009, Strider Marcus Jones. All Rights Reserved.

      9781447611073

      For Charlotte and Ewan and Lydia one day

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Dedication

      BLUSHING VINEYARDS

      MAVERICKS

      THE VASE

      LOVEDROPS DRINKINGS

      DOROTHY DRAINED HIS MARROW

      REJECTING OVID

      THE SIMPLE GREYS OF LOVE

      METAPHORS OF NOTHING

      BROKEN JASMINE MEN

      BRING BACK

      TWO MISFITS

      ALCHEMY SO RARE

      BLACK GOLD

      CANTONS OF NEUTRALITY

      EVER AFTER TOMORROW

      BECOME TRANSHUMAN

      STONE JAR

      BARNACLE AND BUTTERFLY

      THE BLOOD THAT MAKES US BLACK

      THE FOREST OF FORGETS

      STAYING IN THE JASMINE

      INSTANT MESSAGES

      TELEPATHIC LOTUS

      THE SAME DUALITY

      THIS WEIGHT OF WATER

      YOU LIKE THIS ME IN WHAT I'M NOT

      REJOICE TO LATE SLEEP

      BARK

      JUST A MAN

      THE LACK OF MY SURPRISE WAS BLACK

      THE ECLIPSE

      ONE LAST ODYSSEY

      OUR TALK

      I WOULD GIVE YOU THIS EXPLICIT TOME

      EVENSTAR

      COAT AND CONSEQUENCES

      THE DOUBTS OF MY BELONGINGS

      SIMPLE HONESTY

      UNCOVERED LOVE

      THIS THEATRE OF SHOW

      THE SYMPHONY OF LOVERS

      MY GOTHIC GYPSY

      MY WHITE WITCH

      NIRVANA

      THE COMPASS OF YOUR FACE

      OH SWEET SIREN

      YOU KNOW ME NOT

      Oh Lady Of Isengard

      AWAKE WITH WANTING

      KNOWING I AM YOU AND YOU AM I

      RIPPLES THROUGH YOUR BLOOM

      FOUND IN FOUR FOOTSTEPS

      BLUSHING VINEYARDS

      when i magnify my own imagination

      to the subtle calibration

      of your thoughts, each intonation

      moves our house of cards

      into blushing vineyards.

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