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:
- Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Без меня собираясь в застолье хмельном
- Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
- Иван Мятлев – Падучая звезда
- On Hermocratia (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Between going and staying the day wavers by Octavio Paz
- Mi ha el by Vinko Kalinić
- Владимир Маяковский – Детский театр из собственной квартирки
- Starlight
- Владимир Маяковский – Две культуры
- The Meäd In June by William Barnes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мао Цзедун большой шалун
- Implosions
- Вера Павлова – Заплетала косички
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
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lead Soldiers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- J–K. Huysmans poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- J–K. Huysmans poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Irony poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Irony poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Darkness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Answer to a Request poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Answer to a Request poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In a Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In a Castle poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hora Stellatrix poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- From One Who Stays poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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