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:
- Олег Бундур – Папа возмущается
- VII: Some Verses: On The Death of John Murray by William Alexander
- On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper
- Denner’s Old Woman by William Cowper
- So Small, So Vital
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тайна
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 20. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Заболоцкий – Пир в доме Бомбеева
- Наум Коржавин – Перевал
- Men by Maya Angelou
- Thoughts On The Works Of Providence by Phillis Wheatley
- Love Preparing to Fly poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Aftermath poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Глазков – Рассчитывая на успех
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
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- A Lake And A Fairy Boat by Thomas Hood
- Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy
- Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
- [Greek Title] by Thomas Hardy
- Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
- A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- boy_running_in_the_rain.html
- xai_kou_from_book_seeds_of_faith.html
- xai_kou1.html
- xai_kou0.html
- xai_kou.html
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
- victor.html
- traveling.html
- tracks_in_the_private_country.html
- the_world.html
- the_holy_tree.html
- the_emigrant.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