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.

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Poems in English 

• Bubbles from Eternity by Muralidharan Mudaliar by Poetry In English
• Black magic by Mrunmayi Mandan by Poetry In English
• Back I Go to My Prison by Ms Tabzeer Yaseen by Poetry In English
• Appease by Muralidharan Mudaliar by Poetry In English
• St. Roach by Muriel Rukeyser by Poetry In English
• The Conjugation of the Paramecium by Muriel Rukeyser by Poetry In English
• Whoever Comes From The Earth by Nelly Sachs by Poetry In English
• Utopia by Ndue Ukaj by Poetry In English
• Tumult by Nicole M Nugent by Poetry In English
• Tip tap RAIN by Neelam Sinha by Poetry In English
• The Waist of Time by The Waist of Time by Poetry In English
• The Shadow of Crows by Ndue Ukaj by Poetry In English
• The Red Earth of Kupungarri by Nicole M Nugent by Poetry In English
• The man with the blue eye by Neelam Shah by Poetry In English
• The Freedom Of Poetry by Ndue Ukaj by Poetry In English
• The Emigrant by Ndue Ukaj by Poetry In English
• The blanket is same always by Neelam Sinha by Poetry In English
• Superficially by Ndue Ukaj by Poetry In English
• Sonnet (XII) : O Buddha ! I do wish to follow your golden middle path by Neelam Sinha by Poetry In English
• Sonnet (XI) : I know me and I do believe in the causation by Neelam Sinha by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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