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:
- Languaculture by Mike Yuan
- Mama I’ll Sing One For You by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Корнилов – Небо
- As Once The Winged Energy Of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sleep Did Come Wi’ The Dew by William Barnes
- Владимир Маяковский – Не юбилейте
- Thomas Gray – Thomas Gray
- Yarrow Visited by William Wordsworth
- Джон Мильтон – О своей слепоте
- Владимир Маяковский – Странно… но верно
- Николай Языков – Песня (Налей и мне, товарищ мой)
- Николай Языков – Землетрясенье
- Кондратий Рылеев – К портрету
- What am I, After All? by Walt Whitman
- Snowfall by Steve Troyanovich
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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