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:
- Alternate Destination by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Dark Room( qua vadis) by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Ольга Седакова – Филемон и Бавкида
- Your Poems on My Patio by Martina Reisz Newberry
- The Gardener LXXXIII: She Dwelt on the Hillside by Rabindranath Tagore
- Алишер Навои – Кипарис подобен розе увлажненной
- On Mr. Gay poem – Alexander Pope
- On Death poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Три вида
- Sleep In The Mojave Desert by Sylvia Plath
- Song Of The Devoted Slave
- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
- Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner by Robert Burns
- Day by William Morris
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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