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:
- As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre poem – A. E. Housman
- Far Out by Philip Larkin
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не хочу, чтоб свет узнал
- O You Who’ve gone on Pilgrimage by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Николай Гумилев – Лесной пожар
- Вера Полозкова – Францу Кафке
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 44. She Is Far From the Land. Томас Мур.
- Владимир Маяковский – Помощь не придет на такой вой… (Главполитпросвет №14)
- Sit Smiling by Rabindranath Tagore
- Happy Victory Day – May 9, 2022
- Николай Языков – Стансы (В час, как деву молодую)
- Николай Тихонов – Другу
- Какое это счастье – Материнство
- The Simplon Pass by William Wordsworth
- Иван Дмитриев – Шарлатан
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 Hosts
- 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
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