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 First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C. poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- To The Royal Society
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- The Pleäce A Teäle’s A-Twold O’ by William Barnes
- Come, Let Us Find by William Henry Davies
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Роза и дева
- Юлиан Анисимов – Весенний дождь
- Владимир Вишневский – Звучит воинственно: “носки”
- Вера Павлова – Сражаться с прошлым
- The Seven Sages by William Butler Yeats
- Oh Day Of Fire And Sun by Sara Teasdale
- the_emigrant.html
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Ballad First
- Zitten Out The Wold Year by William Barnes
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 Hosts
- 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
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