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:
- There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Platonick Love
- Spenser’s Ireland by Marianne Moore
- Rural Architecture by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Jerusalem Tavern, Dumfries.: Inscription On A Goblet
- About The Sheltered Garden Ground by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Шекспир – Дыханье мысли и огонь желанья – Сонет 45
- Prayer—O Thou Dread Power by Robert Burns
- The Conundrum of the Workshops by Rudyard Kipling
- An Essay On Criticism poem – Alexander Pope
- Robert Burns: My Wife’s A Winsome Wee Thing:
- Apologize by Miraj Patel
- Antediluvian Kural On Twitter
- Николай Гербель – В дорогу
- Василий Жуковский – Эолова арфа
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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