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:
- Benlomond by Thomas Campbell
- The First Part: Sonnet 12 – Ah! burning thoughts, now let me take some rest, by William Drummond
- Robert Burns: O That’s The Lassie O’ My Heart :
- Euclid by Vachel Lindsay
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- Джон Китс – Делим яблоко Евы
- Leto and Niobe by Sappho
- Prelude to an Unwritten Masterpiece by Siegfried Sassoon
- Виктор Кирюшин – Небеса набухшей парусиною
- The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Валерий Брюсов – Исполненное обещание романтическая поэма
- My Spouse Nancy by Robert Burns
- Isaiah LXIII by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Набоков – Санкт-Петербург
- Sonnet XII. On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour poem – John Keats poems
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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