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:
- The Poet Angels Who Came To Dinner
- Robert Burns: Gudewife, Count The Lawin:
- Федор Сологуб – Краем прибережной кручи
- A Song: When June is Past, the Fading Rose by Thomas Carew
- Bob The Fiddler by William Barnes
- Альфред Теннисон – Лорд Борлей
- Of Three Or Four In The Room by Yehuda Amichai
- Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain by William Shakespeare
- The Astronomer by Rabindranath Tagore
- On The Queen’s Visit To London, The Night Of The 17th March 1789 by William Cowper
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope
- The Last Breath of a Ship by Tri Tran
- The Morning Walk
- A Prayer On Going Into My House by William Butler Yeats
- The Banyan Tree by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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