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:
- Mary’s Song by Sylvia Plath
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- Sonnet III: Look In Thy Glass, and Tell the Face Thou Viewest by William Shakespeare
- Стефан Малларме – В альбом
- Олег Сердобольский – Воробышек и крошки
- Новелла Матвеева – Дома без крыш
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Запретный плод
- Владимир Бенедиктов – На море
- Ballade Of Midsummer Days And Nights by William Ernest Henley
- Full Fathom Five by Sylvia Plath
- Paradise Lost: Book 06 poem – John Milton poems
- Daryl, My Son by Ronald G. Auguste
- Вера Павлова – Завещание
- Альфред Теннисон – Годива
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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