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:
- “Life of my life, you seem to me” by Torquato Tasso
- Recollection of the Arabian Nights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Week by Thomas Hardy
- In Tempore Senectutis poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Константин Бальмонт – Электрон
- Sound O’ Water by William Barnes
- Нинель Эпатова – Настя с мамою в лесочке
- Verses Left by Mr. Pope poem – Alexander Pope
- Зинаида Александрова – Давайте, девочки, купаться
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Современная идиллия
- Doomes-Day: The Ninth Houre by William Alexander
- The Prarie Battlements by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Чехарда в палате… (РОСТА №881)
- The Leaden-Eyed by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Высоцкий – Снова печь барахлит, тут рублей не жалей
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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