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:
- Gospel Music Inspires Body & Soul
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- Владимир Маяковский – Врангель – фон… (РОСТА №472)
- La Nue
- To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday poem – Alexander Pope
- Омар Хайям – Душой ты безбожник с Писаньем в руке
- Алексей Толстой – Шумит на дворе непогода
- Proud Music of The Storm by Walt Whitman
- VII: Some Verses: On The Death of John Murray by William Alexander
- Monologue At 3 AM by Sylvia Plath
- Lover’s Gifts LII: Tired of Waiting by Rabindranath Tagore
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Николай Заболоцкий – Сказка о кривом человечке
- Омар Хайям – Когда к жизни Любовь меня в мир призвала
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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