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:
- On a certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope
- Don’t Disappear by Roberto Cocina
- I’ve dreamt of dreaming ’bout you by Vinko Kalinić
- “Sadder than lark when lowering” poem – Alfred Austin
- Федор Сваровский – Небесный гость в четыре лепестка
- A Wintry Picture (II) poem – Alfred Austin
- Lines written on a Bank-note by Robert Burns
- A Thanksgiving to God for His House by Robert Herrick
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Высоцкий – Живу я в лучшем из миров
- Hira Singhs Farewell To Burmah
- Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled by Robert Burns
- Fuck Israel
- The Borders by Sharon Olds
- The Heart Chirps by Ramesh Anand
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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
