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:
- Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled by Robert Burns
- The Given Love
- Николай Некрасов – Встреча душ
- Gratitude And Love To God by William Cowper
- Василий Жуковский – Из альбома, подаренного Ростопчиной (Пушкин)
- Олег Бундур – Первый пирог
- Are You There? by W H Auden
- The Wish to be Generous by Wendell Berry
- Soledad by Robert Hayden
- Memorial Tablet by Siegfried Sassoon
- Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
- The Fire by Nin Andrews
- Владимир Высоцкий – Иноходец
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствуют недели помощи по всей республике (Главполитпросвет №353)
- The Dark Hour by William Henry Davies
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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