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:
- October by Robert Frost
- Вера Полозкова – Есть дерево, в лесу всего древней
- Let Me Tide Over by Vattacharja Chandan
- An Epithalamium by Sappho
- Lodged by Robert Frost
- “`Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law” poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Корнилов – Сызнова
- Такахама Кёси – Драчливые петухи
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Mowgli’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books by Robert Frost
- Юлия Друнина – В манеже
- Song by Seamus Heaney
- Live for the moment, be in the present by Ramesh V Deshpande
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
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- A Lake And A Fairy Boat by Thomas Hood
- Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy
- Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
- [Greek Title] by Thomas Hardy
- Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
- A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- boy_running_in_the_rain.html
- xai_kou_from_book_seeds_of_faith.html
- xai_kou1.html
- xai_kou0.html
- xai_kou.html
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
- victor.html
- traveling.html
- tracks_in_the_private_country.html
- the_world.html
- the_holy_tree.html
- the_emigrant.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