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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о сумасшедшем доме
- Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux
- The Real Work by Wendell Berry
- Sitting Beside The Very Street by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Олег Бундур – Где живут мысли
- When I heard at the Close of the Day. by Walt Whitman
- A Light In The Attic by Shel Silverstein
- Poets
- Владимир Высоцкий – В Средней Азии безобразие
- Жан де Лафонтен – Павлин, жалующийся Юноне
- Moment’s Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas
- The Advice by Thomas Chatterton
- Home Is So Sad by Philip Larkin
- A child said, What is the grass by Walt Whitman
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
- Dublinesque by Philip Larkin
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
- Days by Philip Larkin
- Cut Grass by Philip Larkin
- Counting by Philip Larkin
- Continuing To Live by Philip Larkin
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
- Breadfruit by Philip Larkin
- Best Society by Philip Larkin
- Aubade by Philip Larkin
- At Grass by Philip Larkin
- Arrival by Philip Larkin
- Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin
- An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
- Ambulances by Philip Larkin
- A Study Of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin
- You Can Have It by Philip Levine
- Wisteria by Philip Levine
- Where We Live Now by Philip Levine
- What Work Is by Philip Levine
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