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 Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- The Captured Goddess poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Москва
- Invocation by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Bonnie House O’ Airly poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Edgar Allan Poe by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Perfect High by Shel Silverstein
- Юнна Мориц – Вместо сноски
- St. Francis of Assisi by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Потрясающие факты
- Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need by William Shakespeare
- The Internet Romance
- Don’t know the answer by Vinko Kalinic
- Lines Written In Early Spring by William Wordsworth
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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