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:
- Celebrate Spring Today poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Как папа прогуливал школу
- A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada by William Strode
- Алексей Толстой – Против течения
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
- The Wedding Night by Mukeshkumar Raval
- Ольга Седакова – Кот, бабочка, свеча
- Noon by Philip Levine
- Fight to a Finish by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ione, Dead the Long Year poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Кондратий Рылеев – Луна
- Summer poem – Alexander Pope
- Sleep of the Body the Soul’s Awakening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- To Make A Dadist Poem by Tristan Tzara
- Song—O let me in this ae night 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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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