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:
- Elegy V. Anno Aet. 20. On The Approach Of Spring (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Song—A Lass wi’ a Tocher by Robert Burns
- Lady Freedom Among Us by Rita Dove
- The Mystic Isle by Rainbow Reed
- An Eccho by William Alexander
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Распутие
- Meditation on the A30 poem – John Betjeman poems
- Fear by Vinko Kalinić
- Яков Полонский – На пути
- Юнна Мориц – Букет котов
- Владимир Маяковский – Не только для того, чтоб тебя накормить… (Главполитпросвет №2)
- “Give me October’s meditative haze” poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Вера Павлова – Нежность больше не делится
- Владимир Маяковский – Дела вузные, хорошие и конфузные
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
