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:
- Олег Бундур – Тропа
- The Human Tragedy ACT II poem – Alfred Austin
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мужчина средних лет и его две Возлюбленные
- Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart by Robert Burns
- Василий Жуковский – К князю Вяземскому
- Alexander E. Musset
- The Lovely Maïd Ov Elwell Meäd by William Barnes
- A Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady by William Cowper
- The Three Beggars by William Butler Yeats
- A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
- Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Return From Business poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Тигр и киса
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Из поэмы “Дуняша”
- Олег Бундур – Однажды на даче
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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