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’s Tantrums by William Barnes
- Михаил Кузмин – Уж не слышен конский топот
- Banishment by Siegfried Sassoon
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Маяковский – Только организация урожай умножит… (Главполитпросвет №33)
- Orlando Furioso Canto 18 by Ludovico Ariosto
- 100,000 Pennies by Shel Silverstein
- Morning Midday And Evening Sacrifice poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- To John Keats poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Берггольц – Детскосельский парк
- March by William Morris
- In the Waters of Purity by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Новелла Матвеева – Отражённым светом
- Ольга Берггольц – Феодосия
- The Rose Tree by William Butler Yeats
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
- Malay Song
- Malaria
- Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars
- Love Lightly
- Lost Delight
- Listen Beloved
- Lines By Taj Mahomed
- Less Than The Dust
- Lallji My Desire
- Lalila To The Ferengi Lover
- Kotri By The River
- Khristna And His Flute
- Khan Zadas Song On The Hillside
- Kashmiri Song
- Kashmiri Song By Juma
- In The Early Pearly Morning
- Illusion
- I Shall Forget
- I Arise And Go Down To The River
- Hira Singhs Farewell To Burmah
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