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:
- Robert Burns: Lines Written In Friars’-Carse Hermitage:
- Владимир Луговской – Жестокое пробужденье
- To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent poem – John Keats poems
- Наум Коржавин – Песня лейб-казачьей сотни
- Шекспир – Как и любовь – Сонет 151
- Song from Aella by Thomas Chatterton
- The Judge by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet Ix
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел, Дикая Свинья и Кошка
- The Lovely Maïd Ov Elwell Meäd by William Barnes
- Николай Тихонов – Даль полевая, как при Калите
- ah, happy crow by Raj Arumugam
- A Padlock for the Mouth by William Somervile
- Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic by Robert Burns
- Олег Григорьев – Угро
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