Flight Of Stairs
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Stairs fly as straight as hawks;
Or else in spirals, curve out of curve, pausing
At a ledge to poise their wings before relaunching.
Stairs sway at the height of their flight
Like a melody in Tristan;
Or swoop to the ground with glad spread of their feathers
Before they close them.
They curiously investigate
The shells of buildings,
A hollow core,
Shell in a shell.
Useless to produce their path to infinity
Or turn it to a moral symbol,
For their flight is ambiguous, upwards or downwards as you please;
Their fountain is frozen,
Their concertina is silent.
A few random poems:
- Аля Кудряшева – Я этой ночью уйду, не спи
- The Epic of Jack and Jill by Robby Charters
- But I Was Looking At The Permanent Stars by Wilfred Owen
- A Highly Valuable Chain Of Thoughts poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Федор Сологуб – Круг начертан, и Сивилла
- The Fall by Satish Verma
- Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell by Robert Burns
- Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
- zen: a very short history by Raj Arumugam
- Sonnet LXIV by William Shakespeare
- Cromwell’s Return poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк, Мать и Ребенок
- Robert Burns: Their Groves O’Sweet Myrtle :
- A Stick Of Incense by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Вишневский – Нервическая песнь
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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