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:
- Diving Wreck
- AN ODE FOR BEN JONSON by Robert Herrick
- Imitated From The Japanese by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Бундур – На высоком берегу
- Владимир Британишский – Молодой Толстой
- Robert Burns: Deluded Swain, The Pleasure:
- Алексей Жемчужников – Заколдованный месяц
- Patience, Hard Thing! The Hard Thing But To Pray poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
- Fergus And The Druid by William Butler Yeats
- Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ritual To Read To Each Other by William Stafford
- Шекспир – Ты утоляешь мой голодный взор – Сонет 75
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Synchronicity by Marina Cecilia Kohon
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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