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A variety of poems on a variety of subjects in varying styles.
Some portray various semblances of autobiography.
Please note the word "semblances" carefully.
Last updated: 04.03.2008
If you have any comments or questions on these, please
e-mail me at am_bellows@hotmail.com.
All poems copyright (C) 2005-2007 by A.M. Bellows, but can
be reprinted and copied to others with permission if asked in
magazines etc (at no cost).
Longer Poems
Tristia (1980)
The Penultimate Truth
Poems of Forever (1978)
The Only Answer (1980)
Sequences
Enigma Variations (2003)
Lenten Masques (2004)
Lenten Days (2004)
Jersey Legends Sequence (2004)
Ace of Wands (2004)
Past Remembered (2004)
The Gnostic Way (2004)
Dukkering (2004)
Advent Days (2004)
Ogham Meditations (2004/2005)
Timeline (2004/2005)
The Alethiometer Cycle (2005)
Guernsey Legends Sequence (2005)
Short Poems
Riddles in the dark
The Prince of Frozen Air
After Troy Fell
Ghosts of Twilight
At the End of the Day
Hope's Delay
Fragments
Dread
Once...
Sparrow Song
Romances
In Sight
Secrets
You and I
1991
Winter Folk
Midnight Folk
Bless This House
1992:
Corbiere at Dawn
1992
Heartbeat
2003:
The Crooked Man, or the Story of the
Devil's Hole
Meeting at Formiae
The Divided Self
Song of Autumn
The Autumn Lands
The Mariner’s Lament
Hougue Bie
Art Magic
Heartbreak
An Outing to Hougue Bie
A Poem Puzzle
Thoughts
Harbour Lights
On Earth as in Heaven
The Love of God
Love Abides
Gardening Days
Another Eden
Eventide
My Lady
The Greater Trumps
Tarot
Estella
Seaside
The Way of Exchange
The Browning Version
Bethlehem
A Rabbit’s Tale
The dying year
Broken
Lovesong
2004:
Epiphany
The Baptism of The Lord
Cana
Coventry
The Dream
Candide
The Call
County Park
Seaside at Night
Immanuel
Testament
Parable of the Kite
Sunday Mass
Ghosts
The Compassion of the Lord
Ash Wednesday Secrets
Stolen Kisses
Ash Wednesday
Playing the Fool
Mandylion
Zoo Animals
The Lion of March
Temperature Falling
Triffid!
Persephone Rising
Lenten Quiet Day Sequence
Madrid
The Darkening Clouds
Quiet Day
More poems in 2004 - Lent to Easter
Lent Lunch
Coffee Break
An Alien Shore
An acrostic wish for you
Gethsemane
Eastertide
Spring Term 2004
Tetragrammaton.
Timeslip
Past Remembered
Kiss Me
Love Undefined
Insight
The Sand Reckoner
Confessional
The Light of Christ
The Snow Queen
Degrees of Separation
Cryptogram
Root and Branch
The Last Song
Twinkle, twinkle, little rat
The Isolate Tower
Eclipse of the Moon
A Pocket Universe
Havre des Pas Remembered
Why?
The Nine of Swords
Shades of Grey
The Three of Swords
The Romany Road
Cancale
Transit of Venus
The Forgiving Tide
The Lamp
Midsummer Fires
An acrostic wish for you (another
version)
Rainbow Evolution and Hunger Pains
Bron Trogain
Meditation Sequence - Summer 2004
Proofs in Shapes Unknown
Time Flow
Shroud
Light Encircled
Faceless Man
Greenwood
Summer Holidays, 2004
Line of Light
Freedom’s Sacrifice
Blue Moon
Rejoinder to Ozymandias
Spring Tide at St Brelade
The Weathervane
A Charm to Move The Wheel of Time
Seeker
Timeframe
Bad Weather
Siloam
Elizabeth Castle
Gypsy Witch
Whistle for the Wind
Wolfbane
A Romany Rye
Autumn Term, 2004
Autumn Days
Jersey Wonders
Darkness
Lion Park
Demonic
Equinox
Steam Fayre
Mabon
Cider Days
Portrait of a Gypsy Lady
Matter’s End
Sacred Grove
Rebirth
Spirit Guide
Haunted
Borderlands
The Wall of Stones
Remembrance
Judgement at Ravenna
The Slimline Tarot
Landscapes of the Night
An Inventive Mistake
God Given
Immanent Visions
The Dying Day
Sorrow Song
Lost and Found
Christmas Carole
Christmas Holidays, 2004
Ars Combinatoria
Bleak Midwinter
Dark Mirror
Christmas Eve
Lazy Days
Resolution
Earth Cry
The Silent Voice
Spring Term 2004
Sad Hyacinth
Quicksilver
Far Horizons
North Wind
Remembering
All Hallows Eve
Einstein’s Year
The Best of Fiends
Love Celestial
Now Ear This
Moonlight
Imbolc
A Man of Straw
Candlemas
Evenstar
The Hidden Face of God
Rekindled Flame
Seating Arrangements
Witch
Pickwinkling
Dust
Fog
The Colour out of Space
Valentino
The Tower of Twain
Water Seeker
Saturn Falling
Dervish
Touch
Easter at Athens, 1847
The Dean’s Lament, 1875
The Stone
The Spirit
Threefold
Her Loss, Hair Loss
All Passion Spent
Handfast
Harlequin
Parking Space
Traveller
Sweet Darkness
The Dark Wine
The Idol Maker
Dispossession
Easter Holidays 2005
Easter Rain
Death in Malta
Pre-person
Beginnings
An Inuit Spring
Ice Box
Despair
Man from a Far Country
Da Vinci's Last Supper
Reform Act
Circle Dance
The Week in Brief
Summer Term 2005
Blindsight
Nightline
Night Scented Stock
Raindance
Promenading
Hunchback
Crossing the Lines
Beltane Quartet 2005
The Mirror of Justice
Enlightenment
Fire Bringer
Burning Times
Clouds of Glory Sequence 2005
Rainbow Promise
Cloud Walking
Heart of Darkness
Shining Glories
Ascension
Summer Term 2005 continued
Owl Dreams
Perhaps
No Votes in Jersey
Vox Populi
Sorrow Song
Summoning
Crystal Powers
Psychotic Fair
Her Last Day
Trafalgar
How the Stars were Made
Ban-chuideachaidh Moire
The Celestial Sisters
Masada
Glimpses
The Nightingale
Sacred Shrine
Renunciation
Tooth
Sensual
Sea Harvest
A Neanderthal Sunset
Sleeping in Light
Nature Wisdom
London Pride
Sun Maiden
Interwoven
Farewell Peter Rabbit
Drift
The Modern Pilgrim Way
Meditation in Solitude
Heart of Darkness
Fois Anama
The Gutter
Paradise Towers
Memories in flight
Arena
Seaside Seasons
Sea Change
Burning Times
Ghost Light
Red Sky at Mourning
Autumn Term 2005
Wild Hunt
Holy Cross Day
A Tryst
Luna
House of Stone
Time’s Arrow
Intimacy
Green Island
Call Waiting
Angel
Inner Sight
Samhain Trio 2005
Samhain
Threshold
In Memoriam
Half Term Week 2005
The Bringer of Joy
Bonne Nuit
Sea Magic
Tristette
Fabrication De l'Amour
Halloween to Advent 2005
A Ray of Darkness
The Door into Summer
Meldilorn
Farewell Kissing
Serenade
Oasis
Candlemass
Images Sublime
Tearscape
Advent Reflections
The Wandering Jerseyman
Walking Together
An Ancient Compline
Sun in December
Christmas Holidays
On Christmas Eve
Midnight Mass
Christmas Walk
Northerner
New Year
Shades of Light
Spring Term
Ghosts of Rochdale
Emptiness
Drawing Down Mars
A Haunting Song
Wings of Love
Agape
The Bottle of Memories
Chimes of Midnight
God is not mocked
Moon on Water
Harbour Morning
Cold Fusion
Through the Void
The Last Synagogue of Tajikistanv
The Story Maker
Mind Meld
Prayer with Eyes Open (1)
Prayer with Eyes Open (2)
A Call to Listen
Breath of Life
Being There
Twilight Years
Leaves Alight
Beloved Son
Ostera Day
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
The Guardian
Waves
Then and Now
Benchmark
Byzantium Falls
Caiaphas' Lament
Rwanda Harvest
Moments at Hougue Bie
Midsummer's Eve
Summer Rain
Annie's Song
United 93
An Hour of Silence
Breakwater at Midnight
Heat Death
Darkness Visible
Brides of Christ
The Neighbour
Southampton Memories
Lost Child
A Father's Apology
Hamlet?
The Land of Mist
The Pattern Breaker
Samhain Poems 2006
The World of the Dead
Oblivion
Remembrance
The Memory of Stone
Armenian Odyssey, 1915
Time Lapse Photography
Winter Compass
Water Nymph
2007 Spring Term
Janus
Dawkinsworld
Answer to Job
I am special
Moonrise
Political Correctness
Crystal World
The Magic Sceptre
Certainty
Star Gazer
Desire
Submission
Journey to knowledge
Half Term
Who am I?
A Rose by Any Other Name
Lotus
Maybelieve
Kali's Gift
Mirror, Mirror
Awakening
In Praise of the Shibboleth
Tranceformation
Surya Namaskar
Man as Machine
The Doors of Perception
And It Harm None?
Submission
Shine
The Frozen Land
Southern Cross
Childhood memories
Easter 2007
Mind Map
Balance Sheet Blues
Absolute
In Praise of Human Dignity
Summer Term 2007
Dancing the Code
Venusian Lullaby
The Dark Path
The Empire of Glass
Bittersweet
State of Change
Killing Ground
Legacy of the Daleks
The Futurists
Mr. Nobody
The Reign of Terror
Ash
Moon Landing
Lizardworld
Sins of the Father
Degrees of Truth
The Beast
Snowflakes
The Romans
Ice Trap
The Joy Machine
Lord of the Storm
Undercurrents
The Disinherited
Windows on a Lost World
The Schoolboy's Story
The Celluloid Midas
There Are Fairies at the Bottom of My
Garden
Father Figure
The Three Paths
Prison without Walls
The Destroyers
Blood and Tears
Burning Dreams
The Exiles
Inferno
Me and My Shadows
The Space Pirates
Memory Lane
The Siege of Malta, 1565
Challenge of the Piper
Natural History of Fear
Inside the Spaceship
The Unheard Voice
Summer Holidays 2007
The Witch Hunters
The Lost
Water's Edge
Embrace the Darkness
Making History
New Earth
Summer Holiday
The Golden Door
The Time Museum
The Drowned World
Something Inside
Mind Shadow
Phoenix Rising
Target Practice
The Smugglers
Campaign
Guests of King Neptune
Autumn Term 2007
Scapegoat
Remembering Malacandra
Minuet in Hell
Fury from the Deep
Transcendence
Lamentations
Refugee
Belonging
No Nesting Place
The Twilight Kingdom
Waterways
The Haunted Planet
The Pale Horse
The Clockwise Man
Half Term Week
Before Midnight
The Dust Road
Druid Sequence
Patriotic Druids
2nd part of Term to Christmas Holidays
Other Lives
The Sons of the Crab
The Dust Road
Remembering War
The Patterning
Home Fires
One Act Tragedy
Witch Moon
Plaything
Avatar
Christmas Holidays 2007
Thin Places, Scarred Times
O Little Town
Spring Term 2008
End of Days
Blindsight
The Long Midwinter
Trading Futures
Snakedance
Anger Management
Parallel Lines
Neighbourhood
Beginnings
Beautiful Freaks
The Last Cow
Cailleach an Dudain
Silly Love Songs
Exeter Remembered
After Midnight
The Monsters Inside
The Unkind, Unfriendly Universe
Small Worlds