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:
- Identity poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Жан де Лафонтен – Пьяница и Жена его
- Владимир Высоцкий – Старательская
- The Gardener XXVII: Trust Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: To A Mountain Daisy: On turning down with the Plough, in April, 1786.
- Life and Love by Nithin Purple
- A Cruel Mistress. by Thomas Carew
- A Saturday Sunrise by Philo Ikonya
- One Night, The Fukien Robbers poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Hyperion, A Vision: Attempted Reconstruction Of The Poem poem – John Keats poems
- The Cobweb by Raymond Carver
- Disabled by Wilfred Owen
- Владимир Маяковский – Радуются ли империалисты-победители? (Главполитпросвет №335)
- XIV: Some Verses: To Mr. Edward Allane by William Alexander
- Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame by William Shakespeare
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
- I Awake and Choose To Live by P.J.Reed
- I Am Me by Patrick Neo Mabiletsa
- I am Ireland by Patrick Pearse
- I Am In Pain For You by Patrick Neo Mabiletsa
- HEAL ME by WALID SABA
- Ghost Girl by P.J.Reed
- Full Moon by Walid Saba
- Expressive Moments by Pamela Griffiths
- Expectations by Pamela Griffiths
- Epic by Patrick Kavanagh
- Drowning. Not Waving by P.J.Reed
- Don’t Need Anything by Pat Mullan
- Dinner Date by P.J.Reed
- Detached Living by P.J.Reed
- Desire # 4 by Patricia Fargnoli
- Décembre austral by Patryck Froissart
- Death Fugue by Paul Celan
- Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree by P. K. Page
- Crystal by Paul Celan
- Corona by Paul Celan
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