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:
- October by William Cullen Bryant
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти Н.И. Кульбина
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Reply to an Announcement by J. Rankine by Robert Burns
- The Dunciad: Book I. poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon by Milton Acorn
- These nights by Manushya Puthiran
- Михаил Кузмин – Туманный день пройдет уныло
- The Blackbird by William Barnes
- Deity of my dreams by Vasishta Sharma Gudi
- Epigram Addressed to an Artist by Robert Burns
- Women’s Harvest Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Olney Hymn 64: Praise For Faith by William Cowper
- Владислав Ходасевич – О, если б в этот час желанного покоя
- Drugs Made Pauline Vague by Stevie Smith
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