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:
- Philadelphia by Rudyard Kipling
- Unlyric Love Song
- The Houses by Rudyard Kipling
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- Владимир Луговской – Первый снег
- Composed After A Journey Across The Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire by William Wordsworth
- Waldenses by William Wordsworth
- Vellen O’ The Tree by William Barnes
- Владимир Корнилов – Жизнь
- The Other Half by Shaunna Harper
- Bothwell Castle by William Wordsworth
- A Sort Of A Song by William Carlos Williams
- Ольга Ермолаева – В кирзовых сапогах скользить по горной глине
- The Sleepers by Sylvia Plath
- The Song of the Cities 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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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