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:
- The Host Of The Air by William Butler Yeats
- On Being Challenged to Write an Epigram in the Manner of Herrick by Sir Walter Raleigh
- To Arms! poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – С могучей страстию в мучительной борьбе
- With a Book poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я всё чаще думаю о судьях
- King Arthur’s Men Have Come Again by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect by William Shakespeare
- Ольга Берггольц – Я иду по местам боев
- Вера Павлова – Всходить на костёр Жанною
- Lord Roberts by Rudyard Kipling
- Like Barley Bending by Sara Teasdale
- Robert Burns: Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge:
- Михаил Ломоносов – На сочетание стихов Российских
- Oh Day Of Fire And Sun by Sara Teasdale
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
- What the Sexton Said by Vachel Lindsay
- What the Rattlesnake Said by Vachel Lindsay
- What the Moon Saw by Vachel Lindsay
- What the Miner in the Desert Said by Vachel Lindsay
- What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said by Vachel Lindsay
- What the Ghost of the Gambler Said by Vachel Lindsay
- What the Coal-Heaver Said by Vachel Lindsay
- What Semiramis Said by Vachel Lindsay
- The Trap by Vachel Lindsay
- The Tale of the Tiger-Tree by Vachel Lindsay
- The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly by Vachel Lindsay
- The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit by Vachel Lindsay
- The Song of the Garden-Toad by Vachel Lindsay
- The Scissors-Grinder by Vachel Lindsay
- The Rose of Midnight by Vachel Lindsay
- The Raft by Vachel Lindsay
- The Proud Farmer by Vachel Lindsay
- The Prarie Battlements by Vachel Lindsay
- The Perfect Marriage by Vachel Lindsay
- The Mysterious Cat by Vachel Lindsay
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
