by Alexa Shelby
Each vessel is an apple:
Round, annular and beaming
exuding empathy, caliber.
Full to the brim, to the core
unsure of how to grow.
Only anticipating the ceaseless picking –
Imagine such an aimless existence!
Whole and uncorrupted,
permanently cherished;
And momentarily
loved
by all children.

A few random poems:
- The Dregs Of Love poem – Alfred Austin
- Cleared by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Of A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw:
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character:
- A Song About Myself poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore by William Shakespeare
- Алексей Жемчужников – Заметки о некоторой публицистике
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- Harry Ploughman poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Farewell To Spring poem – Alfred Austin
- Laus Mariae by Sidney Lanier
- A World So Different by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Robert Burns: Stanzas On The Same Occasion [Prospect of Death]:
- The Return by Rudyard Kipling
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