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:
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- Denis poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Thomas Gray – Thomas Gray
- Commerce by Satish Verma
- Two Stranger Birds in Our Feathers by Mahmoud Darwish
- Fragment – Wee Willie Gray (Song) by Robert Burns
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Long Long Ago by Robert Desnos
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Из стихотворения «Призраки»
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наводчица
- Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
- The Sirens’ Song by William Browne
- Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожная история
- Drink of This Cup by Thomas Moore
- Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare
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 Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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