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:
- little teddy bear lost by Raj Arumugam
- Recorders Ages Hence. by Walt Whitman
- Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow by Robert Duncan
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
- I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, by Stephen Crane
- Magpiety by Philip Levine
- Bistro Memories by P.J.Reed
- Haiku: His Little Drum by Monty Gilmer
- Hunger and Thirst by Muhammad Dawood Jan
- Goodbat Nightman by Roger McGough
- Absence: A Farewell Ode On Quitting School For Jesus College by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn by William Shakespeare
- On Invalids (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
- The Imperfect Lover by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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