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:
- Dead Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art by William Shakespeare
- The First Part: Sonnet 5 – How that vast heaven intitled First is roll’d, by William Drummond
- Bring Wine by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Woman by Manmohan Acharya
- Олег Григорьев – Слезы
- Нина Воронель – Юбилей в доме литераторов
- Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour by Wallace Stevens
- MOURNING by Satish Verma
- NOCHE MARINA by Victoria l.mora paoli
- In David’s “Child’s Garden Of Verses” by Sara Teasdale
- Illusion of Time by Ndue Ukaj
- The Two Thieves; Or, The Last Stage Of Avarice by William Wordsworth
- Counting Sheep by Russell Edson
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
- Central Park At Dusk by Sara Teasdale
- At Sea by Sara Teasdale
- At Night by Sara Teasdale
- Alchemy by Sara Teasdale
- Advice To A Girl by Sara Teasdale
- A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale
- A Winter Bluejay by Sara Teasdale
- A Song Of The Princess by Sara Teasdale
- A Prayer by Sara Teasdale
- A Minuet Of Mozart’s by Sara Teasdale
- A Maiden by Sara Teasdale
- A Little While by Sara Teasdale
- A Fantasy by Sara Teasdale
- A Boy by Sara Teasdale
- A Ballad Of The Two Knights by Sara Teasdale
- Tides by Sara Teasdale
- The Years by Sara Teasdale
- The Mystery by Sara Teasdale
- The Ghost by Sara Teasdale
- The Fountain by Sara Teasdale
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