Amethysts and Emeralds

58 Poems 1

1. Head in the Sand 1

2. Life-Course 2

3. King Rædwald’s Battle Helmet 3

4. Time Travel Notes. Mid-January, 2018 4

1. 4

2. 4

3. 6

5. Somewhere in a Crowd 7

6. Song: The Eagle and the Seventh 8

7. A Philosopher Considers Heaven 10

8. Der ägyptische Hofmannsthal 11

9. In the Wake of Poseidon 13

10. Io 14

11. Song: Sudarshana Knights 16

12. Hyperion 17

13. Daphne 18

14. Narcissus 19

15. One Born of the Ocean 21

16. Sonnet for the Watchers 22

17. Cadmium 23

18. The Siege of Träumen 25

19. Ixion 26

20. Enceladus 27

21. Titan 28

22. Queen Elizabeth III 29

I.1 29

I.2 29

I.3 30

23. Queen Victoria II 31

24. Queen Anne 32

25. The Saturn of a Slashed Chakra 35

26. Quartz 36

27-29. Three Astronomical Poems 37

 Alpha Crucis 37

The Coal Sack Nebula 37

The Jewel Box Star Cluster 38

30. The Astral Spaceship 39

31. Pleroma Azura 41

32-34. Three Seashell Poems 42

 Argo Paper Nautilus 42

Tiger Cowrie 42

Venus Comb Murex 43

35-37. Three Flower Poems 44

 Antarctic Pearlwort 44

Venus Flytrap 44

Ixia Ixion 45

38. Hymn to Brahma 46

39. Hymn to Shiva 47

40. Hymn to Vishnu 48

41. Sonnet for Kalki 49

42. Pope St Linus 50

43. Kalki’s Crown 51

44. Villanelle of the Present Age 52

45. Sonnet for the Easter Vigil 53

46. Sonnet for Ordinary Time 54

47. Sonnet for Advent 55

48. St Teresa of Ávila 56

49. Equali for Kalra’s Foes 57

50. Petrarchan Sonnet of Light 58

51. Inverted Sonnet of Spirit 59

52. Sonnet of Life 60

53. King Henry X 61

54. Sonnet of the Golden Rose 62

55. Sonnet for the Triennium 63

56. Pentecost 64

57. Chaplet for the Coming Era 66

58. The Two Travellers 68

+1 Poem 71

Hymn to Kalki 71