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:
- Do not be ashamed by Wendell Berry
- Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney
- “The Girt Woak Tree That’s In the Dell” by William Barnes
- Fire, Famine, And Slaughter : A War Eclogue by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- Look not in my eyes, for fear poem – A. E. Housman
- Are You the New person, drawn toward Me? by Walt Whitman
- Elijah by Peter Bardsley
- Sonet 56 by William Alexander
- “And Is It Among Rude Untutored Dales” by William Wordsworth
- Жан де Лафонтен – Дафнис и Алцимадура
- Иван Бунин – Апрель
- Thoughts by Ronald G. Auguste
- A Song Of The Future. by Sidney Lanier
- When To The Attractions Of The Busy World by William Wordsworth
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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