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:
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
- Repentance by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet LXII by William Shakespeare
- “What ails you, Ocean, that nor near nor far” poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Языков – Прошли младые наши годы
- Poem
- The Bald-Pated Welshman and the Fly by William Somervile
- The Reverie of Poor Susan by William Wordsworth
- Sonet 48 by William Alexander
- Sonnet CXL by William Shakespeare
- Light by Tala Bar
- I Remember by Stevie Smith
- Владимир Орлов – Дядя Миша на печи
- To a Childless Woman by Siegfried Sassoon
- I Sit and Look Out. by Walt Whitman
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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