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:
- Омар Хайям – И теперь живу под гнетом страха
- When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маринин – К нам тётя соседка заходит на чай
- Moonrise by Yvor Winters
- Robert Burns: I Hae a Wife O’ My Ain:
- Half The People In The World by Yehuda Amichai
- Аля Кудряшева – Тяжело деревьям зимой
- Федор Сологуб – Купол церкви, крест и небо
- Robert Burns: O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair:
- Robert Burns: Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell: Of Glenriddell and Friars’ Carse.
- Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech’s Absence by Robert Burns
- Come Into the Garde, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Late Evening Song by Weldon Kees
- Confused and Distraught by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Ольга Берггольц – Ответ
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.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