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:
- Ballade Of The Summer Term poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Николай Гумилев – Людям будущего
- All Things Will Die poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Аля Кудряшева – Дождь напевает, искрясь по зарослям
- Song to the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell
- intertwined by rachel wright
- Джон Донн – Ничто
- The Ploughman’s Life by Robert Burns
- Happy Teacher’s Day by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Gift Of The Great – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Победой увенчав Октябрьский бой… (Главполитпросвет №364)
- The Little Turtle by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Костров – Вот избушка
- The Smiles Of The Bathers by Weldon Kees
- Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet LIV by Sir Philip Sidney
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
- Nominalism Is A Liquid Kuhi
- My Mother’s Grief
- If Truth In Hearts That Perish
- I Havent Betrayed You My Hometown
- Eclipse Of Love
- Divided Passion
- Death039s Claim
- Dear Bhikkhu A Eulogy
- As With A Senryu S Hardening Ridge
- A Gogyohka And The Forgotten Panopticon
- A Faded Postcard Is A Tanka Daydream
- The Dead Woman poem – Pablo Neruda
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- Diffugere Nives poem – A. E. Housman
- Water Strider
- The Infernal Regions
- Honeycomb
- Dark Matter
- Wet City Night
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