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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Нападали белогвардейцы на Донецкий бассейн… (РОСТА №611)
- The World is with Me by Thomas Hood
- The Great Conch Train Robbery by Shel Silverstein
- The Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.:
- Bulgarian Lullaby by Vasil Slavov
- Robert Burns: The Slave’s Lament:
- Zoo-Keeper’s Wife by Sylvia Plath
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- A Tale, Founded On A Fact, Which Happened In January, 1779 by William Cowper
- Who Knows? by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Высоцкий – Неужто здесь сошёлся клином свет
- Endymion: Book I poem – John Keats poems
- The Reformers by Rudyard Kipling
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Не называй далекой бездной
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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