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: The Lovely Lass O’ Inverness:
- Владимир Британишский – На берегу
- Calidore: A Fragment poem – John Keats poems
- A Cat Called Shan by Pamela Griffiths
- Danse Macabre by Sylvia Plath
- Tobias Smollett – Tobias Smollett
- Melmillo by Walter de la Mare
- A Lady Aurum by Thriveni Mysore
- Number 1 by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы просто куклы
- Шекспир – Запечатленный в слове лик твой милый – Сонет 59
- He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers by William Butler Yeats
- Jessie by Thomas Edward Brown
- Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu) by Sarojini Naidu
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
- Conviction (iii) by Stevie Smith
- Conviction (ii) by Stevie Smith
- Conviction (i) by Stevie Smith
- Bag-Snatching In Dublin by Stevie Smith
- Away, Melancholy by Stevie Smith
- Autumn by Stevie Smith
- Alone In The Woods by Stevie Smith
- The Triangle by Subhash Misra
- The Last Summer by Subhash Misra
- The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
- The dawn by Sukumaran Devarajan
- Some Clouds by Steve Kowit
- Scribbles by Suchi Gaur
- Rainbow Hues by Suchi Gaur
- Purple Heart Liz (My Girl At Woodstock) by Steve Sant
- Notice by Steve Kowit
- Must Work by Steve Downes
- Lifetime Of Death by Steve Sant
- In The Chapel Of Rest by Steve Sant
- I Had To Leave by Subhash Misra
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