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:
- Between the Dusk of a Summer Night by William Ernest Henley
- Macer : A Character poem – Alexander Pope
- In Tara’s Halls by William Butler Yeats
- The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
- Le monstre by Patryck Froissart
- Sonnet 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend by William Shakespeare
- Юрий Галансков – Мне больно
- A Man Young And Old: VI. His Memories by William Butler Yeats
- Rural Architecture by William Wordsworth
- Courting Fidelity by Satish Verma
- I Do Not Speak by Stevie Smith
- Sonet 35 by William Alexander
- The First Part: Sonnet 1 – In my first years, and prime yet not at height by William Drummond
- Song of the Bowmen of Shu poem – Ezra Pound poems
- I Salute You , O Women! by Ms Tabzeer Yaseen
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