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:
- YOU ARE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY by Steve Troyanovich
- Николай Карамзин – К Дмитриеву (Многие барды, лиру настроив)
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночной пилигрим
- Валерий Брюсов – Глупое сердце, о чем же печалиться
- The Decameron poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Sleep
- O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth
- The Last Breath of a Ship by Tri Tran
- Омар Хайям – Любовь роковая беда
- Алишер Навои – Птицу-сердце полонила нежных локонов силком
- Adam by Rainer Maria Rilke
- A Lesson In Vengeance by Sylvia Plath
- What think You I take my Pen in Hand? by Walt Whitman
- The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Noe more unto my thoughts appeare by Sidney Godolphin
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