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:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Подводный город
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- Creativity in America and How Italians Can Learn From American Ingenuity
- Яков Полонский – По горам две хмурых тучи
- Did you call me Love by Rohini bhatia singh
- Lesbos by Sylvia Plath
- On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture by William Cowper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бездна
- Владимир Костров – Вот женщина с седыми волосами
- Feelings Of A Noble Biscayan At One Of Those Funerals by William Wordsworth
- Poem Stories
- Николай Глазков – Должны мы все свой пай нести
- Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
- Book Thirteenth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored Concluded] by William Wordsworth
- A Song : The Sparkling Eye by William Cowper
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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