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:
- Robert Burns: I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon Town:
- On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley
- Song For The Severed Head In `The King Of The Great Clock Tower’ by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Корнилов – Погодинка
- Balin and Balan poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Old Huntsman by Siegfried Sassoon
- Lament For The Makers By William Dunbar
- Константин Бальмонт – Чудовище с клеймом
- Жан де Лафонтен – Городская и полевая Крысы
- Where Is the Real Non-Resistant by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet CXLVII by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Заносы не дают железным дорогам жить… (РОСТА №838)
- Владимир Корнилов – В Македонии
- One Ran Before by Yvor Winters
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
- On Going Unnoticed by Robert Frost
- On a Tree Fallen Across the Road by Robert Frost
- October by Robert Frost
- Now Close the Windows by Robert Frost
- Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
- Not To Keep by Robert Frost
- New Hampshire by Robert Frost
- Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
- Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
- My November Guest by Robert Frost
- My Butterfly by Robert Frost
- Mowing by Robert Frost
- Misgiving by Robert Frost
- Meeting and Passing by Robert Frost
- Maple by Robert Frost
- Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter by Robert Frost
- Lodged by Robert Frost
- Locked Out by Robert Frost
- Leaves Compared With Flowers by Robert Frost
- Into My Own by Robert Frost
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