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:
- Infelice by Stevie Smith
- The Season poem – Alfred Austin
- The Portrait — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Complimentary Epigram to Mrs. Riddell by Robert Burns
- What the Ghost of the Gambler Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вы с Музой свадьбу золотую
- Ольга Берггольц – Два стихотворения дочерям
- An Act of Faith by Talha Jafri
- I Have Become Very Hairy by Yehuda Amichai
- The Song Of The Kasak poem – Alexander Pushkin
- English Poetry. Richard Hovey. John Keats. Ричард Хави.
- Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожный дневник: Часть IV
- Eve- Song by Mary Gilmore
- Faith and Faiths by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.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