About A. S. J. Tessimond
1902 - 1962/EnglishArthur Seymour John Tessimond was an English poet. After studying at Liverpool University, he moved to London where he worked in bookshops, and also as a copywriter. He later moved to France. An eccentric and an Imagist, Tessimond wrote astute, elegant, u
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Poetry & Stories
Attack On The Ad-Man
This trumpeter of nothingness, employedTo keep our reason dull and null and void.
Meeting
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.
Birch Tree
The birch tree in winterLeaning over the secret pool
Flight Of Stairs
Stairs fly as straight as hawks;Or else in spirals, curve out of curve, pausing
The Man In The Bowler Hat
I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
About A. S. J. Tessimond
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Who is A. S. J. Tessimond?
1902 - 1962/EnglishArthur Seymour John Tessimond was an English poet. After studying at Liverpool University, he moved to London where he worked in bookshops, and also as a copywriter.
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Poems & Stories by A. S. J. Tessimond
Attack On The Ad-Man
This trumpeter of nothingness, employedTo keep our reason dull and null and void.
Meeting
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.
Birch Tree
The birch tree in winterLeaning over the secret pool
Flight Of Stairs
Stairs fly as straight as hawks;Or else in spirals, curve out of curve, pausing
The Man In The Bowler Hat
I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
Betrayal
If a man says half himself in the light, adroitWay a tune shakes into equilibrium,
Empty Room
The clock disserts on punctuation, syntax.The clock's voice, thin and dry, asserts, repeats.
Houses
People who are afraid of themselvesMultiply themselves into families
Day Dream
One day people will touch and talk perhapseasily,
Quickstep
Acknowledge the drum's whisper.Yield to its velvet
Cats
Cats no less liquid than their shadowsOffer no angles to the wind.
Cinema Screen
Light's patterns freeze:Frost on our faces.
Selected Quotes by A. S. J. Tessimond (चुनिंदा उद्धरण)
The birch tree in winterLeaning over the secret pool
This trumpeter of nothingness, employedTo keep our reason dull and null and void.
People who are afraid of themselvesMultiply themselves into families
I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
If a man says half himself in the light, adroitWay a tune shakes into equilibrium,
Acknowledge the drum's whisper.Yield to its velvet
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