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:
- Flickering Dream by Satish Verma
- Владимир Маяковский – Схема смеха
- The Passing Of The Primroses poem – Alfred Austin
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Заболоцкий – На закате
- Philadelphia by Rudyard Kipling
- The Trout poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- You are coming! by Preeth Nambiar
- Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- A Slice Of School by Vaishnavi Prakash
- A Time to Talk by Robert Frost
- Федор Сваровский – Об удивительном
- Do I
- Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart by Robert Burns
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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