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:
- Ок Мельникова – Sha man
- Exeat by Stevie Smith
- Ezra on the Strike poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Ghost by Walter de la Mare
- Written In Germany On One Of The Coldest Days Of The Century by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Если ты не впадаешь в молитвенный раж
- Song: Eternity of Love Protested by Thomas Carew
- Better And Best by John Oxenham
- The Old Maid by Sara Teasdale
- The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: I’ll Meet Thee On The Lea Rig:
- Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- My Mother’s Grief
- Robert Burns: On The Seas And Far Away:
- I think it rains by Wole Soyinka
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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