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:
- Николай Карамзин – Прости
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика
- Invocation by Marilyn Hacker
- Composed on The Eve Of The Marriage Of A Friend In The Vale Of Grasmere by William Wordsworth
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- The Cat in the Kitchen by Robert Bly
- Sonnet: As From The Darkening Gloom A Silver Dove poem – John Keats poems
- Desesperanto by Marilyn Hacker
- Степан Щипачев – Ладонь
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- Atalanta’s Race by William Morris
- He’s on the porch by Yosa Buson
- Ольга Седакова – Госпожа и служанка
- I Heard You, Solemn-sweet Pipes of the Organ. by Walt Whitman
- Song from Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney
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
- the-flash-reverses-time.html
- que-sera-sera.html
- power-of-thought.html
- phantasm.html
- once_was_a_singer_for_god_remembering_nekia.html
- old-boy.html
- lost_love_is_never_lost.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- holiday_letter_for_a_poet_gone_to_war.html
- gratitudes_of_a_dozen_roses.html
- every_hour_henceforth.html
- einstein-defining-special-relativity.html
- cell-mate.html
- calling-the-spirits.html
- angel_of_christmas_love_shining_bright.html
- angel_of_better_days_to_come.html
- All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry by Aberjhani
- a-tempest-in-a-teacup.html
- Eveleen’s Bower by Thomas Moore
- Erin! The Tear and the Smile in Thine Eyes by Thomas Moore
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