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:
- Василий Жуковский – Был у меня товарищ
- Eclogues by Thomas Chatterton
- Sonnet XV. On The Grasshopper And Cricket poem – John Keats poems
- Holy Communion
- Sonet 56 by William Alexander
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 9 из 15
- An Astrologer’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Заболоцкий – Пекарня
- Love And Death by Sara Teasdale
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
- Алексей Плещеев – Ее мне жаль
- My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu
- Ярослав Смеляков – Русский язык
- Владимир Маяковский – Давайте и получите (РОСТА №495)
- Владимир Маяковский – Частушки (Милкой мне в подарок бурка…)
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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