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Two Poems by Strider Marcus Jones



I Follow You Into Night


i sense you in summer wind

and try to redefine the Other ring

that binds us

in this tormenting

show of come and go

that minds us.


in the sentence of a sound

i hear your pain

then turn its fate around

to break the blame

mending happenings

and broken strings.


footfalls confide

in shadows that duet in our divide

on a bridge where dark persuasions swallow light

i follow you into night

through corridors uncurtained dreams

in tapestries and surreal scenes.


that corrugated face of time

marks motions set to mime-

on the balcony of fate he leant

where rites and runes evoked her scent-

to hear the music in her ways

smile and quicken upon his gaze.



Music on a Faded Page


voice of the sea

warm calm

sweet balm

scents my senses be.


fury full of storm

rhythm slow to rage

music on a faded page

of tattooed flesh reborn.


my muse of melody

shapeshifts in symbols strange

on this quixotic range

inside and out of me-


is colourless like wind

invisible, but here and heard

threading light and darkness through a word

to give its note new meaning.

Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and former civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. He is the editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal 

https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/.

A member of The Poetry Society, nominated for the Pushcart Prize x3 and Best of the Net x3, his five published books of poetry  https://stridermarcusjonespoetry.wordpress.com/ reveal a maverick, moving between cities, playing his saxophone in smoky rooms.