Quickstep
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Acknowledge the drum’s whisper.
Yield to its velvet
Nudge. Cut a slow air-
Curve. Then dip (hip to hip):
Sway, swing, pedantically
Poise. Now recover,
Converting the coda
To prelude of sway-swing-
Recover.
Acknowledge
The drum-crack’s alacrity;
Acrid exactitude –
Catch it, then slacken,
Then catch as cat catches
Rat. Trace your graph:
Loop, ellipse. Skirt an air-wall
To bend it and break it –
Thus; so;
As the drum speaks!
A few random poems:
- To The Right Honourable William, Earl Of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary Of The State For North-America, by Phillis Wheatley
- Юлия Друнина – Я порою себя ощущаю связной
- Владимир Набоков – Какое сделал я дурное дело
- To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton
- In A Letter To C. P. Esq. In Imitation Of Shakspeare by William Cowper
- One Hour to Madness and Joy. by Walt Whitman
- The Cloud by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet CL by William Shakespeare
- Алексей Жемчужников – Осенью в швейцарской деревне
- The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Yasmini
- Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
- Михаил Ломоносов – День коронования Великия государыни императрицы Елисаветы Петровны
- Kodja Mustafa Pasha poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works