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:
- Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut:
- Loves Blindness
- Владимир Костров – Романс
- Sassoon’s Public Statement Of Defiance by Siegfried Sassoon
- Medicine to my brain poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы вместе грабили одну и ту же хату
- A Curse for Kings by Vachel Lindsay
- A Lyric to Mirth by Robert Herrick
- For a’ that and a’ that by Robert Burns
- Beside The Idle Summer Sea by William Ernest Henley
- Forever Closed by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love by William Butler Yeats
- Иван Мятлев – Приди, приди
- Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Child an’ the Mowers by William Barnes
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
- A Florida Ghost. by Sidney Lanier
- A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman. by Sidney Lanier
- A Birthday Song. To S. G. by Sidney Lanier
- A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master by Sidney Lanier
- The Triumph by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Portrait by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sporting Acquaintances by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Triumph by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sassoon’s Public Statement Of Defiance by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Portrait by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sporting Acquaintances by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Solar Eclipse by Siegfried Sassoon
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Prelude: The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon
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