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:
- These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
- The Irish Unionist’s farewell to Greta Hellastrom in 1922 poem – John Betjeman poems
- Robert Burns: M’Pherson’s Farewell:
- SCARY DANCE by Satish Verma
- Ode to H.H. The Nizam Of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
- Apparition by William Ernest Henley
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Омар Хайям – О, если б, захватив с собой стихов диван
- Robert Burns Country: Ronalds Of The Bennals, The:
- A Pict Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Before by Yehuda Amichai
- Isaiah LXIII by Phillis Wheatley
- Sonnet (XI) : I know me and I do believe in the causation by Neelam Sinha
- Шекспир – Проснись, любовь – Сонет 56
- The Quest poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Platonick Love
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Of Wit
- Not Fair
- Life
- Hymn To Light
- Hymn Light
- Epitaph
- Despair
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Cousel
- Constantias Song
- Constantia039s Song
- Concealment
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