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:
- Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman
- The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly by Vachel Lindsay
- Do You Know What It’s Like
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова дрожат они, грезы бессильные
- A Watch-String by William Strode
- The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Give Me Back My Rags #12 by Vasko Popa
- Memory poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character:
- The Bonny Hind poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Жан де Лафонтен – Ссора Собак с Кошками и Кошек с Мышами
- Days Are Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- To Vernon Lee poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- what a poet must do by Raj Arumugam
- The Ring of Stars by Robert Desnos
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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