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:
- Constancy To An Ideal Object by Samuel Coleridge
- Virgule by Thomas Lux
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не возьмут и невзгоды в крутой оборот…
- Омар Хайям – Коль станешь твердым
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мартовский Заяц
- Владимир Маяковский – Для чего оттягивают паны мириться?.. (РОСТА №264)
- Низами Гянджеви – Из месяца лишь день прошел
- Daryl, My Son by Ronald G. Auguste
- Scythe Song poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler
- Владимир Маяковский – Бродвей
- A Song by Thomas Carew
- A bat flits by Yosa Buson
- Robert Burns: First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, The :
- At the Mid Hour of Night by Thomas Moore
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