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:
- Psalm 9 by Mahmoud Darwish
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы живём в большом селе Большие Вилы
- Jones’s Porvate Argyment by Sidney Lanier
- The First Part: Sonnet 1 – In my first years, and prime yet not at height by William Drummond
- Lost Star by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Beggar by William Ellery Leonard
- Macer : A Character poem – Alexander Pope
- Resolve by Sylvia Plath
- Wandering Singers by Sarojini Naidu
- Владимир Набоков – Как часто я в поезде скором
- The Ballad Of The Foxhunter by William Butler Yeats
- AN ODE FOR BEN JONSON by Robert Herrick
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нет рядом никого, как ни дыши
- Михаил Лермонтов – В рядах стояли безмолвной толпой
- Locked Away by Margaret Marie Hubbard
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
- Muhammad by Mahmoud Darwish
- Lulu by Manolo Arriola
- Khanaa’s Song by Mallika Sengupta
- In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish
- If Old Men Fought by Mac McGovern
- Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Didn’t Apologize to the Well by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Belong There by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Am There by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Want To Write by Margaret Walker
- Hora Cero by Manolo Arriola
- Heaven, an envious home by Mahak Raithatha S
- He Is Calm, and I Am Too by Mahmoud Darwish
- Hate Survives by Mac McGovern
- Halloween by Mac Hammond
- Frijolita by Manolo Arriola
- FREEDOM by Mac McGovern
- For Life and Death of a Poet by Marcin Malek
- FLORECER by Manolo Arriola
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
