The Breathless Pause: Poems and Thoughts电子书

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THE UNIVERSE

Dare Darkness Grab Us

Full Moon

New Moon

God Watches Man

Eclipse Of The Moon

The Hubble Telescope

Comet

Black Hole

Binary Star

Celestial Music

On listening to astronomers speculate on the origins of the Universe...

Under African Skies

Supernova: Crab Nebula Photographing Memory

Galaxies

Ring Nebula

Eternity

Proof

Communication

Betelgeuse

Joker

Saturn (The Roman name for Chronos — the god of Time)

Venus

Mars

Hereford Cathedral

NATURE AND PLACES ON THE PLANET

While I was wasting the day

Spring

Garden at evening

A good day

Dawn

Spring in Cambridge

King’s College Chapel, Cambridge

Spring

Dawn

Monet’s Water Garden, Giverny

London

The motorway

Bath

The great red desert (between Bath and Bristol)

Downside Abbey, Stratton on the Fosse

Salisbury Spire

Tree

Tree — Wardour Castle, Wiltshire

Fern leaved beech — Botanical Gardens, Bath

Pine tree

Bamboo grove

The asphodel lily

Brean Sands

Pear trees on a winter evening

The Grey North Sea — Southwold, Suffolk

Angels on the ceiling — Blythburgh and Southwold Churches, Suffolk

Tor: Dartmoor

Listening to water at Dartmeet: Dartmoor

The conservatory in winter

Summer

Hyacinth

The school daffodil

Swan

Florence — Summer 1980 — The Laurentian Library

Florence

The Annunciation

Florence

Saints

Prayer to Horus — Egypt 1982

Dawn on the Nile

The desert

The hermit

From the mountains above the Valley of the Kings: Luxor

Egyptian Mummy Room, British Museum. 15 July 1986

Egyptian Gallery, British Museum

The toads

The Toads of Lake Titicaca

Storm

Troy

Yosemite: Vernal Falls, 8 June 1979

Silbury Hill, Wiltshire — Sunday 16 April 1978

Cannon’s Marsh, Bristol — Sunday morning 30 August 1981

Sun in October

SPECULATIONS AND MUSINGS

Eternal Life

The Christ

On Glastonbury Tor

I touch

Dreams

On waking

Dreams

Insomnia

The wave breaking

Walking the ball

Bird in a room

The cage

Easter

The dragon and the tiger

Visions come...

A poetry reading in London

Poetry Reading in Bath

On reading Henry Corbin: Mundus Imaginalis or The Imaginary and the Imaginal

My soul sees

The Cosmic Conspiracy Theory

Burned books

Interchange

The Archimedes Palimpsest

The Flatlander

The moon caught in a tree

The long vibration

Mayfly

GORSEDD (on making the writer an Honorary Bard of Bath)

On reading a translation of the gospel of Mary Magdalene

The Golden Arrow of Abaris

Writer’s block

Glass drums

On hearing scientists talking and drifting off...

Words

The net of pearls

On listening to a poet reading his own poem

Life story

On watching an artist at work

Multiple cross roads

By the river at Batheaston

The present moment

Merlin

God’s unimaginable spirit

Key secrets

I have no permanence...

The mighty power of angels

The spring goddess

Seven Poems on the Christ/Fish Acrostic/Vesica piscus

The interpreter

The language

The sign

The rescue

Rock pool

The return of the fish

WAR AND DEATH

Uneasy peace

Too wide earth’s fear

The core

Christmas list

Guided tours

Hydrogen bomb 1958

The coward

Toy soldier

Dawn

The old man on a garden seat

The anniversary of a death

There is never enough time for love

One within the other

Gateway

LOVE AND FAMILY

First meeting

Dance

Archaeologist

The body’s Braille

Thin skin

Caught

First snow

The slow chisel

Fog

The chase

Heraclitus said...

Must I...

On too much self analysis

Thinking about you

Wanting

Hold tight

Photographs

FIVE POEMS ABOUT BIRTH

1. The planet

2. The courtship

3. The conception

4. The birth

5. The parting

You hear that?

This man I married

Time is a humming bird

My three children

After my husband died

The ones I love

Moyra Caldecott

Books by Moyra Caldecott