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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Про Тита и Ваньку
- Has Your Soul Sipped? by Wilfred Owen
- The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant
- Robert Burns: To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough:
- Had Something To Say by Vattacharja Chandan
- Robert Burns: On My Ever Honoured Father:
- A Prayer in the Prospect of Death by Robert Burns
- Николай Заболоцкий – Разговор с медведем
- Николай Языков – Родина
- You by Thonda Sri Indrani
- The Last Leap
- Владимир Маяковский – Радуются ли империалисты-победители? (Главполитпросвет №335)
- The Black Tower by William Butler Yeats
- Как прекрасны все цветы
- Владимир Маяковский – Новые силы в III Интернационале!.. (РОСТА №891)
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
