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:
- Eclogue:–A Bit O’ Sly Coorten by William Barnes
- Ballad Of The Press-Gang At Shihao Village by Du Fu
- The Routine Things Around The House by Stephen Dunn
- Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Where Are You
- Ballade Of Cleopatra’s Needle poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ballade Of The Midnight Forest poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Occupy the Wall Street by Sunil Sharma
- The Lonely Climber: A Seed Poem by Mike Yuan
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- Василий Жуковский – Гаральд
- Covering Two Years by Weldon Kees
- Robert Burns: Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul:
- Who is now Reading This? by Walt Whitman
- Олег Григорьев – Вечером девочка Мила
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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
