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:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Мой сад
 - Вера Павлова – Вот и пришли времена
 - Vacillation by William Butler Yeats
 - A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode Of Paolo And Francesca poem – John Keats poems
 - Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
 - The Garden poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - Иван Бунин – Надпись на могильной плите
 - Disabled by Wilfred Owen
 - The Hyaenas by Rudyard Kipling
 - Иван Киуру – Роща заалела
 - “Goldie Pinklesweet…” by Roald Dahl
 - Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
 - Олег Бундур – Кто делает весну?
 - Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Don’t fear death poem – Aleksandr Blok 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
- Казимир Лисовский – Река Енисей
 - Казалось, осталось недолго
 - Катя Пиксаева – Давай поговорим о доброте
 - Картошка
 - Кастрюль и сковородок музыкант
 - Карл Сэндберг – Три слова
 - Карл Сэндберг – Анекдот о цикуте для двух афинян
 - Карл Сэндберг – Джаз-фантазия
 - Карл Сэндберг – Молитва стали
 - Карина, ты моя любимая
 - Кариночка, любимая ты наша
 - Карие глазки, длинные ноги
 - Карина, моей души ты яркий свет
 - Какой чудесный, маленький комочек
 - Какой ты сегодня взволнованный
 - Камышева Ю. – На далёком полюсе, где метёт пурга
 - Какое это счастье – Материнство
 - Какое имя чудное Валерия
 - Какие яблоки в саду
 - Как заработать на сочинении собственных стихов: варианты заработка денег стихотворениями – Poetry Monster
 
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