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 Distant Winter by Philip Levine
- Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
- A Girl by Ezra Pound
- Ольга Седакова – Несчастен
- Нина Воронель – Харьков
- Rain by Shel Silverstein
- An Adventure in the Life of King James V of Scotland by William Topaz McGonagall
- St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Sonnet Ii
- Easter Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Набат
- Владимир Маяковский – Чемпионат всемирной классовой борьбы
- Владимир Маяковский – Дешевая распродажа
- Rendezvous
- Владимир Маяковский – Тебе тепло?.. (РОСТА №599)
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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
