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 Wind In Woone’s Feäce by William Barnes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Королевский крокей
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong
- Владимир Высоцкий – Давайте я спою вам в подражанье радиолам
- The most noble bird, wife by Mukeshkumar Raval
- Шекспир – Про черный день – Сонет 63
- Second Epistle to J. Lapraik by Robert Burns
- Distributive Trade II – The Wholesaler
- Los Able Minded Poets Music Review
- The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
- Abyss by Pierre Reverdy
- Impromtu On Ogareva poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees by William Shakespeare
- No LOVE by venkatesh.valusa
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 Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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