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:
- Ольга Берггольц – Ответ
- Lucky by Tony Hoagland
- Motto prefixed to the Author’s first Publication by Robert Burns
- No! by Thomas Hood
- The Brook poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Fragrance of life by Preeth Nambiar
- Long Odds poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- If You Ask Me by Miraj Patel
- In Ithica poem – Andrew Lang poems
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
- The Speed Of Light by W. S. Merwin
- Indignation Of A High-Minded Spaniard by William Wordsworth
- Keepen Up O’ Chris’mas by William Barnes
- cell-mate.html
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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