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:
- In a Spring Grove by William Allingham
- Pity by Sara Teasdale
- To Arms! (II) poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть в Мессине
- Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo by Robert Burns
- The Jungle Husband by Stevie Smith
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Радуга
- By The Fates poem – Alfred Austin
- An Essay On Criticism poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Наши поправки в англо-советский договор (Красный перец)
- Candles by Sylvia Plath
- Rainbow Hues by Suchi Gaur
- So I Said I Am Ezra poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Above the Battle’s Front by Vachel Lindsay
- Олег Григорьев – Я спросил электрика Петрова
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.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