Tube Station
by A. S. J. Tessimond
The tube lift mounts,
sap in a stem,
And blossoms its load,
a black, untidy rose.
The fountain of the escalator
curls at the crest,
breaks and scatters
A winnow of men,
a sickle of dark spray.
A few random poems:
- Quality Customer Service – How to Measure Customer Satisfaction
- Валерий Брюсов – Il bacio
- Full Moon by Tu Fu
- The Ever-Patient Woman poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Elegie IV: On The Death of Prince Henrie by William Alexander
- Places and Men by William Allingham
- Жан де Лафонтен – Городская и полевая Крысы
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet. Why Did I Laugh Tonight? poem – John Keats poems
- To My Lord Fairfax poem – John Milton poems
- My Last Poem by Rifat Ilgaz
- Robert Burns: To A Louse: On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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