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 Owl poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way by William Shakespeare
- The Journey by Yvor Winters
- Владимир Маяковский – Порт
- The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- How To Publish Your Writing With Duotrope
- Doomes-Day: The Fourth Houre by William Alexander
- Bathing In The River
- I Can’t Touch The Sun by Shel Silverstein
- For The Dead
- Spring in Town by William Cullen Bryant
- Нина Воронель – Я не хочу опять вернуться в детство
- A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc. by Robert Burns
- The Upas Tree poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Soledad by Robert Hayden
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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