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:
- Robert Burns: The Bard At Inverary:
- Sonet 58 by William Alexander
- Ярослав Смеляков – Стихи, написанные на почте
- Николай Языков – Послание к Кулибину (Какой огонь тогда блистал)
- Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Николай Языков – Я. П. Полонскому (Благодарю тебя за твой подарок милой…)
- In the Nower poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ash-Boughs poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Купола
- A Tempest in a Teacup poem – A. Van Jordan poems | Poetry Monster
- Михаил Лермонтов – Бой с барсом (Отрывок Мцыри)
- Frog Autumn by Sylvia Plath
- AN HYMN TO THE MUSES by Robert Herrick
- Psalm 06 poem – John Milton poems
- Степан Щипачев – Ровеснику
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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