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:
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- The Gardener LXIX: I Hunt for the Golden Stag by Rabindranath Tagore
- Night-Piece by Siegfried Sassoon
- Eclogue:–A Ghost by William Barnes
- Георгий Иванов – Там, над Невой зеленоватой
- Картошка
- Robert Burns: Sweet Tibbie Dunbar:
- The Dead by Sylvia Plath
- To The Autumn Wind poem – Alfred Austin
- Night Song At Amalfi by Sara Teasdale
- Children039s Eyes
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше буржуи о производстве думали… (РОСТА №792)
- One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein
- The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
- Юрий Галансков – Вступление к поэме “Апельсиновая шкура”
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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