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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Братство РОСТА БН
- Николай Заболоцкий – Гроза идет
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Plaidoirie for a “Prince” of Jaffna by T. Wignesan
- The Woman in the Ordinary by Marge Piercy
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я был слесарь шестого разряда
- The Star by Sara Teasdale
- The Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
- A River Flows Underground by Satish Verma
- Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase by William Shakespeare
- Стефан Малларме – Устав от горького бездействия и лени
- Николай Гумилев – На Дуксе ли, на Бенце ль я
- The Garden poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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