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:
- A Grey Day by William Vaughn Moody
- Robert Burns: Bonie Dundee:
- The Fraser River by Mike Yuan
- Олег Бундур – Лагуна
- Валерий Брюсов – Гнутся высокие лотосы
- The Past is the Present by Marianne Moore
- To My Friends poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day by William Cowper
- Юлия Друнина – Запас прочности
- Владимир Маяковский – Спросили раз меня: “Вы любите ли НЭП?”
- Ione, Dead the Long Year poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ode to Beer, an Irish Song
- Marsh Hymns by Sidney Lanier
- Омар Хайям – Если счастлив от счастья
- gem_immortality.html
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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