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:
- Robert Burns: On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain: A Fragment
- Interregnum by Weldon Kees
- Incommunicado by Sylvia Plath
- Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- This I Beg To Have by Luis Estable
- Михаил Лермонтов – Валерик
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрь 1917–1926
- Happiness by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Poetry and the Power of Words
- How Solemn as One by One. by Walt Whitman
- Any Lifetime by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- For The Future by Wendell Berry
- I Dream of my Grandmother and Great-Grandmother by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Robert Burns: The Epitaph:
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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