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:
- Riposte to the Bard: Sonnet 130 remade in my lady’s image by Neil Outar
- Владимир Британишский – Петербургский горожанин
- Владимир Высоцкий – На Филиппинах бархатный сезон
- Владимир Высоцкий – Неужто здесь сошёлся клином свет
- Юнна Мориц – Приход вдохновения
- Winter – The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne poem – Alexander Pope
- On The Plethora Of Dryads by Sylvia Plath
- A Dream by Robert Burns
- A Country Nosegay poem – Alfred Austin
- Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh by William Cowper
- In Spring, Santa Barbara by Sara Teasdale
- Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee by Robert Burns
- To England poem – Alfred Austin
- Life by Marvin Bell
- The Fallen Elm poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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