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Strider Marcus Jones

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Strider Marcus Jones – is the founder, editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogs.... He is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford/Hinckley, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize x4 and Best of the Net x3. His five published books of poetry are modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes erotic, surreal and metaphysical http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusj.... He is a maverick, moving between forests, mountains and cities, playing his saxophone and clarinet in warm solitude.

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Delighted to have my poem A Woman Does Not Have To Wait published in the superb Suburban Witchcraft Magazine Issue 11 in December 2025. My thanks to brillliant editor Mirjana M.

https://suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue11

A WOMAN DOES NOT HAVE TO WAIT

under the old canal bridge you said
so i can hear the echoes
in your head
repeating mine
this time
when it throws
our voices from roof into water
where i caught her
reflection half in half out of sunshine.
thats when i hear Gerschwin
playing his piano in you
working out the notes
to rhapsody in blue
that makes me float
light and thin
deep wit

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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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“When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet”
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“Your silent rebellion is unstoppable.”
― Strider Marcus Jones, Wooded Windows

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“Don't do what They say. Go Your own way.”
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Sep 08, 2012 04:04PM

Nereid wrote: "Hi, thanks for the friend request. I am also a huge poetry and romance fan. :)"

Hi Nereid. Welcome and well met. There are many fine poets and writers here. Have fun reading.

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Sep 08, 2012 03:50PM

Hi, thanks for the friend request. I am also a huge poetry and romance fan. :)

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Jul 29, 2012 11:17AM

Jerry wrote: "Thanks for "friending" me mate. I see we have some overlapping literary inerests; Hardy, Kafka, Raymond Chandler. Tell me... I've wanted to dive into reading James Joyce, but have always gotten ..."

Lo Jerry! Thankye for accepting my friend request on here. Coooool overlaps. Hardy is my favourite novelist..especially Tess and The Return Of The Native. Chandler..superb in that genre..love Bogart and Bacall..The Big Sleep..fantastic dialogue and so many memorable scenes. My favourite poets are Seamus Heaney and W B Yeats but so many others living and dead run them close in certain poems. Joyce's Dubliner's is a good book of short stories to dip into. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man is short but brilliant..enjoy it for yourself! Ulysees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_..., like Cervantes Don Quixote, is best savoured at one's leisure. I love stream of consciousness.

I have been a Manchester United fan since the age of three and grew up four hundred metres from Old Trafford.

Thankye and take care...Strider

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