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 Merchant by Rabindranath Tagore
- Наталья Хрущева – Дождик и художник
- Константин Бальмонт – Эльзи
- A Walk After Dark by W H Auden
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Transcended Land Of Love by Vaishnavi Prakash
- The Given Heart
- Telescopes In The Square by Graham Rowlands
- Crepuscule du Matin poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
- In The Chapel Of Rest by Steve Sant
- Михаил Кузмин – Вы молчаливо-нежное дитя
- Юрий Верховский – Судьба с судьбой
- Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town by T. S. Eliot
- Syrinx poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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