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:
- It’s Beautiful to See Through the Eyes of the Sky by Walter William Safar
- Act of Union by Seamus Heaney
- Sonnet 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live by William Shakespeare
- Scorn Not The Sonnet by William Wordsworth
- Year’s End by Marilyn Hacker
- Written Before Re-Reading King Lear poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Звездочет
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы живём в большом селе Большие Вилы
- Владимир Маяковский – Студенту пролетарию
- Юлия Друнина – В манеже
- Chaplain To The Forces by Winifred Mary Letts
- Владимир Высоцкий – От скучных шабашей смертельно уставши
- Love, Romance, Relationship: Some Poetic Scenes!
- Let go of your worries by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- My rains by Vinko Kalinic
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
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
- Malay Song
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