MAVERICKS
you taste of cinnamon and fish
when you wish
to be romantic-
and the ciphers of our thoughts
make ringlets with their noughts
immersed in magic-
like mithril mail around me
stove dark forest, pink flesh sea
touchings tantric-
make reality and myths
converge in elven riffs
of music, so we dance it-
symbols to the scenes
of conflict, mavericks in dreams
that now sit-
listening to these pots and kettles
blackening on the fire
of rhetoric and murderous mettles-
before we both retire
to our own script.
Copyright Strider Marcus Jones. 9th September, 2009. MAVERICKS. All Rights Reserved. 
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost
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Wonderful! One of my favourites. xx
ReplyDeleteThankye Paula. I love mixing Middle Earth up with the now in love, the everyday and war. I will post more poems as I get the hang of this..x Strider
ReplyDeleteYou just keep creating some really wonderful poetry- Thank you Strider for sharing
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