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:
- Another on the said Occasion by Robert Burns
- Илья Эренбург – Я не трубач, труба
- Complaint by William Carlos Williams
- Владимир Маяковский – Тёплое слово кое-каким порокам
- Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
- ode to love by Rohit Sridharan
- Two Kopjes by Rudyard Kipling
- Константин Бальмонт – Если грустно тебе
- Ирина Гурина – Как появляются листочки
- Вера Павлова – Они влюблены и счастливы
- On The Dunes by Sara Teasdale
- AN EPITAPH UPON A CHILD by Robert Herrick
- Аля Кудряшева – Слишком уж зол ветер
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы просто куклы
- Владимир Маяковский – Нечеловеческой силы требовала война… (Главполитпросвет №285)
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
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Poet Angels Who Came To Dinner
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- The Man That Poetry Made
- Power Of Thought
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- My Aroma
- Lost Love Is Never Lost
- Holiday Letter For A Poet Gone To War
- Gratitudes Of A Dozen Roses
- Every Hour Henceforth
- Cell Mate
- Calling The Spirits
- Angel Of Christmas Love Shining Bright
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- The Prison Of The Past
- The Dead Woman
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
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