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:
- The house where I was born (04) by Yves Bonnefoy
- The Saint And The Hunchback by William Butler Yeats
- A Tale of Starvation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On Returning To England poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Был без работы буржуям пир… (Главполитпросвет №24)
- The Rowing Song by Roald Dahl
- Yes, It Was The Mountain Echo by William Wordsworth
- To A Cloud by William Cullen Bryant
- One Hour to Madness and Joy. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – В куски разлетелася корона
- Sunday Morning Blues poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: Another [Epigram On The Said Occasion… On A Henpecked Country Squire]:
- The Times Are Nightfall poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Альфред Теннисон – Смерть Старого Года
- Иннокентий Анненский – Франсис Жамм. Когда для всех меня не станет меж живыми
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Poems.html 0
- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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