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 Gardener LXXXIII: She Dwelt on the Hillside by Rabindranath Tagore
- Landscape by Paul Celan
- Darest Thou Now, O Soul. by Walt Whitman
- They Did Not Expect This by Vernon Scannell
- Book Ninth [Residence in France] by William Wordsworth
- St. Francis of Assisi by Vachel Lindsay
- The Sparrow’s Nest by William Wordsworth
- For A Coming Extinction by W. S. Merwin
- Out of Town poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Solomon To Sheba by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Корнилов – Соперник
- The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
- E.A. Nov. 6, 1900 by John Oxenham
- The Old Gumbie Cat by T. S. Eliot
- Memorial Day For The War Dead by Yehuda Amichai
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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
