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:
- The Rowers by Rudyard Kipling
- Who is at my door? by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A Piece Of The Storm by Mark Strand
- Ianthe’s Question by Walter Savage Landor
- A Poet! He Hath Put His Heart To School by William Wordsworth
- first_light.html
- Night poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Корнилов – Вечер Гарри Каспарова в Политехническом
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- My rains by Vinko Kalinic
- To A Young Writer by Yvor Winters
- In The Night by Stevie Smith
- Bag-Snatching In Dublin by Stevie Smith
- Teachers Day special
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.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