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:
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- Catharina : The Second Part. On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq. by William Cowper
- Epigram on Andrew Turner by Robert Burns
- Ольга Седакова – Маленькое посвящение Владимиру Ивановичу Хвостину
- An Evening by William Allingham
- Омар Хайям – Если бог не услышит меня в вышине
- Владимир Маяковский – Первомайское поздравление
- Olney Hymn 7: Vanity of the World by William Cowper
- Now Finale to the Shore. by Walt Whitman
- Lamp Of Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
- Lost poem – Alfred Austin
- The Day Of Wrath / Dies Iræ poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Over The Hill From The Poor-House by Will McKendree Carleton
- The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benet
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