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:
- A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствует III интернационал! (РОСТА № 140)
- On His Deceased Wife poem – John Milton poems
- Омар Хайям – И сиянье рая, и ада огни
- Dews of Silence by Raju Baruah
- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
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- София Парнок – В земле бесплодной не взойти зерну
- The Yeoman of Kent by William Somervile
- The Lew O’ The Rick by William Barnes
- Song, by a Person of Quality poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Алексей Толстой – Рука Алкида тяжела
- A beach dawn by Sunil Sharma
- Whenever I Go There by W. S. Merwin
- Must Work by Steve Downes
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works