Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [Category]

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Agate.

Amber.

Amethyst.

Aquamarine:
Staring into aquamarine and amethyst - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Aquamarine Pisces gems for eyes - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Angled slats of aquamarine - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Beryl.

Carbuncle:
Windows of agates, and gates of carbuncles - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"

Carnelian:
A branch of carnelian to serve as food - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

A lamina of coral and carnelian - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Chalcedony:
Paved with copper and chalcedony - Richard Aldington "On a Motor-Bus at Night"

Burnished like chalcedony - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Scene"

Chrysolite:
Girt by a colonnade of crysolite - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Citrine:
Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"

Crystal.

Diamond.

Emerald.

Garnet:
Unanswered red garnet - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"

That dark garnet of a husband - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

each new days i show my garnet arms - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

A garnet stone to match my gift - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Gem.

Jade/Jaded.

Jasper.

Jet.

Jewel.

Lapis:
Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

A sea-gull of lapis lazuli - Marianne Moore "Talisman"

Malachite.

Moonstone.

Nephrite:
Lush throats throttled by nephrite - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway

Obsidian.

Onyx.

Opal.

Peridot:
Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote [sic] - Sarojini Naidu "Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad"

Dazzling as a piece of raw peridot - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Lime cordial, molten peridot - Richard Scott "Peridot"

To recover some peridot shard - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Quartz.

Rock.

Rhinestone:
A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"

Rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"

Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Rhodonite:
One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

Ruby.

Sapphire.

Selenite:
Selenite incense holder to honor my fresh dead - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

Soapstone:
Uprooting soapstone and jade - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Stone.

Tigereye:
A tigereye banded five kinds of gold - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

Topaz.

Tourmaline:
To lay tourmalines and tinted glass - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"

Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Turquoise.


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