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:
- The Autopsy by Russell Edson
- EXISTENTIAL DILEMMMA by Satish Verma
- The Banyan Tree by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Village Garden poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song—Willie brew’d a Peck o’ Maut by Robert Burns
- Other by Robert Creeley
- The Cat’s Song by Marge Piercy
- Жан де Лафонтен – Обезьяна и Дельфин
- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England by Phillis Wheatley
- Composed By The Sea-Side, Near Calais, August 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Орлов – Добрый день
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank:
- Ольга Берггольц – Нам от тебя теперь не оторваться
- A Song From ‘The Player Queen’ by William Butler Yeats
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
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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