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:
- Prayer, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Prière by T. Wignesan.
- Heccar and Gaira by Thomas Chatterton
- Низами Гянджеви – Ты рукой мне сжала сердце
- Four Quartets 2: East Coker by T. S. Eliot
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- Константин Бальмонт – Эльзи
- Валерий Брюсов – Где-то
- To A Young Lady Who Had Been Reproached For Taking Long Walks In The Country by William Wordsworth
- The Commitment by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Sonnet 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Note to Reality by Tony Hoagland
- Владимир Маяковский – Повествование это о странствии эсера вокруг света (Красный перец)
- Константин Бальмонт – Четыре источника
- Halls grew darker poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet. Written In Disgust Of Vulgar Superstition 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
- History by Robert Lowell
- Dolphin by Robert Lowell
- Now That You’re Gone by Roberto Cocina
- My World Destroyed by Roberto Cocina
- My Heart Screams by Roberto Cocina
- My Beach by Robert Saltzman
- Mortal Words by Robert McNamara
- Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
- Man And Wife by Robert Lowell
- Identification In Belfast by Robert Lowell
- Homecoming by Robert Lowell
- Home After Three Months Away by Robert Lowell
- High School Crush by Roberto Cocina
- Greengrocer by Robert McNamara
- For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
- Fake Identity by Roberto Cocina
- Epilogue by Robert Lowell
- Don’t Disappear by Roberto Cocina
- Crossroads by Roger Hayes
- Artistic Soul Retold by Roberto Cocina
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works