EQUALE
ALM No.67, August 2024
POETRY
Equale
The oboe air sounds as we the Chords laud Kalki
Triumph is ours! We kneel with Tower might in all our minds
And then we raise our hands
As we exalt the space-dark lakebed where all our foes repose
Their souls and bones diffuse and cold like evening and fog
Long gone.
Behold this funeral march of joy! Behold our banners blaze like suns!
Proclaim the K and its force deployed! Rejoice as all succumb!
All must then know the Delta emblem of death, the love Kshatriyas won.
Procession done galaxies await all the free
Blades we now raise are charged with glassy light and Kalpa-timed
And so we make our plans
Within the dawn that vast Red Sky wrath proclaimed for Watchers’ joy
And march the endless plain to laud the gain of our God
And son.
Ashen Light Command
All those asteroids now careening through bright Venus clouds
All those monoliths now descending through the solar glare
Gargantuan blocks soon expanding on to a soft lava
To form our base
And they interlock, chondrites combating so hard against acid,
The sulphur rain
Gales that can never wreck femtotech software -
Regal code for the retroing thrust on each huge rock
Royal signs for the Ashen light swirls of the night side.
See the vapour trails now arising from Maxwell Montes
See the smoke and dust now emerging like bright nebulae
Titanic updrafts soon arriving at our desired target
The cooler clouds
But they pass away, showing the progress made now by our tower,
The fifty K
Height that we know provides angular balance
Crust now thickened by nuclear blasts to a great width
Mars’ Olympus inspiring great Hive Men from day one.
Ishtar Terra now within range of this famed satellite
Ishtar Terra now a plateau for our prime landing craft
And Skadi Mons, cruel peak but centre of our sublime project
Awaits our rule
And the warriors waiting to battle wild worlds in this system
The galaxy
Ever inspiring dark infinite visions
Spiral vast with its globular swarms and their red light
Spiral cold but a smouldering goal for the K men.
Self Suzerain
Now I’m so close Proxima hails me
Flares of red flame Praising my skill
Ruby challenged Diamond shielded
But it jolts hard Gravity’s hill.
So I lean back Cheering that red disk
Venerating Lucifer’s blaze
All the star clouds Nebulous angels
Even bright stars Lost in the haze.
And alone here Suzerain leasing
Far but fearless Plasma my aim
Poised to gain now Samples of sunlight
Who could rule me Threaten my claim?
So I swoop low Primed to scoop star fire
Lasers guiding Probes to the glare
Angry gases Surge on my viewport
But I’m smiling Loving the dare.
That’s my nature Facing the fury
Always has been. Always will be.
I am Vishnu I am Lord Shiva
I am their son I am Kalki.
Amine Linkmen
Roused from minimal formal darkness
Charged with love, the Lone Pair’s plea
Praise the sign of Vishnu’s greatness -
Amine’s link, who sets us free!
Lines of kindred, lanes of stardust
Shiva, Shantih joined as One
Kneel before him, know the Linkman:
Being’s lemma, youth and Son!
O, the light of flarestars blazes sacred!
O, their aim is youth and timeless glory!
Hail the Boy! Hail the Boy!
Hear us sing, you crowned with triple circles!
Now your radiance guides us starward
Now you make us young like you
Kim and Kravah, Kathor’s Scion
Vastness’ spark and kalpas’ due!
Hive of minds, the Tower’s triumph
Delta K and now we see
Life exalting, dark defiant
Males rejoice in great Kalki!
Arrokoth
Distant
Silent
Drifting
Spinning
Waiting
Strengthening
Reaching
Wakening
And now I’ve come to stay
And now I’ve come to be here
Twin Arrokoth my sign -
Red hammer sign of Kalki.
Love me one Lord now
Hear me orator
Know me Kantah and Kumudah
But fear me, Kathor’s own!
Heed well the warrior’s roar!
Two Gods took root in me
Tor’s art and Heaven’s arrow.
So the galaxy now proclaims the crossbow’s oath
Amethyst or emerald, rotor’s son.
Each ark of stars a fiery hook and call -
The far glimpse and the beckoning fair one.
Daniel King is an Australian same-sex oriented writer, with a strong interest in Hinduism (particularly pertaining to Kalki, the 10th and final avatar of Vishnu, the Preserver, incarnating now and forever together with Shiva, the Destroyer), mysticism in general, and astronomy. As a surfer, he is also strongly influenced by marine imagery.