Quickstep
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Acknowledge the drum’s whisper.
Yield to its velvet
Nudge. Cut a slow air-
Curve. Then dip (hip to hip):
Sway, swing, pedantically
Poise. Now recover,
Converting the coda
To prelude of sway-swing-
Recover.
Acknowledge
The drum-crack’s alacrity;
Acrid exactitude –
Catch it, then slacken,
Then catch as cat catches
Rat. Trace your graph:
Loop, ellipse. Skirt an air-wall
To bend it and break it –
Thus; so;
As the drum speaks!
A few random poems:
- Василий Тредиаковский – Невозможно быть довольным
- Валерий Брюсов – Е.Т. (Кто глаза ее оправил)
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Григорьев – Вечером девочка Мила
- Нина Воронель – Бабий стих
- The Princess (part 3) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Haven Woones Fortune A-Twold by William Barnes
- Олег Григорьев – Ты боишься высоты
- On Time poem – John Milton poems
- Кондратий Рылеев – О милый друг, как внятен голос твой
- The Terrible Abstractions by Vernon Scannell
- Family Reunion by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now by William Shakespeare
- Вера Полозкова – Декабрь
- Einstein Defining Special Relativity poem – A. Van Jordan poems
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works