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:
- Lover’s Gifts VIII: There Is Room for You by Rabindranath Tagore
- Night A-Zetten In by William Barnes
- The Toucan by Shel Silverstein
- An Essay on Man: Epistle II poem – Alexander Pope
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- The Long Hill by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Маяковский – Точеные слоны
- The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
- Hope In Spring by William Barnes
- Вера Звягинцева – Стоишь, не поднимая глаз
- Sealed Appropriate
- Olney Hymn 52: For The Poor by William Cowper
- WATER LILLIES AND ADVICE by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- Иннокентий Анненский – Франсис Жамм. Когда для всех меня не станет меж живыми
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Собачий пир
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
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Morning by Mark R Slaughter
- Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- Manure by Mark R Slaughter
- Slag by Mark Base
- Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
- She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- Question mark remarks by Mark Miller
- Life by Marvin Bell
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
- Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
- Please Don’t Judas Me by Mark Miller
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