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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Трудовая взаимопомощь инвентарем (Агитплакаты)
- Валерий Брюсов – Две испанских песенки
- Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie:
- For To Admire by Rudyard Kipling
- What the Sexton Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Offerings. by Walt Whitman
- Аля Кудряшева – Театр-весна
- AUTUMN GRAPES by Önder Kurt
- THE DANGERS OF AN HONEST MAN IN MUCH COMPANY by Abraham Cowley
- A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W. by Phillis Wheatley
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson:
- From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Владимир Высоцкий – Очи чёрные: Часть I
- Runner, The. by Walt Whitman
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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