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:
- In a Castle poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Наум Коржавин – На друга-поэта
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ночью
- Федор Сологуб – Скупа Филис, но пыл мятежный
- Paradise Lost: Book 01 poem – John Milton poems
- Олег Григорьев – Как бумажный пароходик
- All The Dead Dears by Sylvia Plath
- Doomes-Day: The Eighth Houre by William Alexander
- The house where I was born (09) by Yves Bonnefoy
- The Bells Ov Alderburnham by William Barnes
- The Wanderings of Oisin: Book II by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Бундур – Тревожное время
- Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton
- The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
- To Independence by Tobias Smollett
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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