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:
- love by Raj Arumugam
- Canzone by W H Auden
- Think of the Soul. by Walt Whitman
- Игорь Северянин – Парижские Жоржики
- Love Sonnet XLIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я видел тень блаженства
- Омар Хайям – Мой друг, о завтрашнем заботиться не след
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- Василий Жуковский – Цветок
- The Sea Took Pity poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Наум Коржавин – Иван Калита
- The Happy Townland by William Butler Yeats
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me. by Walt Whitman
- The Chambermaid’s First Song by William Butler Yeats
- An Army Corps on the March. by Walt Whitman
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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