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:
- To a Pupil. by Walt Whitman
- Алексей Толстой – Уж ты нива моя, нивушка
- Hint From The Mountains For Certain Political Pretenders by William Wordsworth
- Hokku Poems in Four Seasons by Yosa Buson
- In this World by Wendell Berry
- Eclogue:–John, Jealous At Shroton Feäir by William Barnes
- Talk by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Drunkards in the Street by Vachel Lindsay
- Listening to the moon by Yosa Buson
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Туча
- Dear Bhikkhu A Eulogy
- Benediction by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet 74: But be contented when that fell arrest by William Shakespeare
- Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- The Lime-tree Bower my Prison by Samuel Coleridge
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
