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:
- Who does she think she is…. by Shel Silverstein
- Otho The Great – Act V poem – John Keats poems
- Омар Хайям – День каждый услаждай вином
- Harp Song of the Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling
- Lover’s Gifts LVIII: Things Throng and Laugh by Rabindranath Tagore
- In The Country – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – В куски разлетелася корона
- London Poets poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- In The Forum poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: For A’ That:
- Conversation
- A Jog-Trot Pair by Thomas Hardy
- Наум Коржавин – Кое-кому
- Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Запись в книге почётных гостей Киевского завода шампанских вин
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