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:
- Владимир Корнилов – Учитель
- Why Write? by Mark Olynyk
- Colors by Shel Silverstein
- Perfections. by Walt Whitman
- Омар Хайям – Будь камнем твердым я
- The Settle An’ The Girt Wood Vire by William Barnes
- Юлиан Анисимов – Из Рильке
- The Brave and the Love Flute by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- On Receiving Hayley’s Picture by William Cowper
- Шекспир – Неужто я, приняв любви венец – Сонет 114
- Robert Burns: Craigieburn Wood:
- You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop by Marge Piercy
- AN HYMN TO THE MUSES by Robert Herrick
- English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. A Christmas Carol. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.
- Robert Burns: The Inventory: In answer to a mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes
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
