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:
- Dust in the Eyes by Robert Frost
- If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
- Нина Пикулева – Читайте, дети
- Алексей Толстой – Стасюлевич и Маркевич
- Robert Burns: Where Are The Joys I have Met?:
- Нина Воронель – Запахи детства еще не забыты
- Nocturnal Vigils poem – Alfred Austin
- Innermost One by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Набоков – Барс
- The Benefactors Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Immoral Laboratories
- Blank by Nizar Sartawi
- On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton
- A turn of events by Ross D Tyler
- A Tree Song by Rudyard Kipling
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