Here are a couple of Mark's poems. The first is a love poem (and one of Mark's most popular works) Breakfast. The second is an early poem.

Featured Poems:

  • Breakfast
  • Student in a Railway Station

    • Breakfast

    How does love get out of bed
    to be there in the morning? Always
    snuffling out from the museli,
    padding round the kitchen
    in slippers, or winking out from the milk
    with big green eyes; always
    saying "Listen for the rustling
    of the muffling duvet and
    don't forget the tea." Always
    warm in the mornings,
    more talkative than us.

    taken from The Garden of the Order © 2003 Mark Leech
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    Student in a Railway Station

    Look at me.
    Hey dammit, look at me!
    Flicking ash on the line,
    Crossing my arms, smoke around my ears.
    I am HERE.
    I am waiting for a TRAIN.
    Sitting in the platform cafe
    aggressively reading Eliot,
    Shoulders hunched around my coffee.
    Look on my style, ye mighty, and despair.

    Taken from History is Places and People © 1999 Mark Leech

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