Thursday, October 9, 2025: Strider Marcus Jones's "Fading Sphinx"
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, and nominated for both 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.
Fading Sphinx
another beautiful eye
reflects lifes lie,
when you look into its face
and see a better place
close by.
without that circle round its dream,
everything is seen
to separate unequally in two
and drift apart blown through
old sky.
the why, where and when
does not matter then,
as it dissipates
into other fates
making old orders die.
in all the residue
of what we knew,
a fading sphinx, casting contemporary
shadows, rises, temporary
but still drops by
elsewhere, in the flawed foundations
of younger civilizations,
building their own
mountains of shaped stone
where polished lenses spy.
© Strider Marcus Jones
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