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:
- Алексей Жемчужников – Полевые цветы
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заключительная песня Кэрролла
- The Monastery Of Life by Vaishnavi Prakash
- November 1968
- 1926 by Weldon Kees
- Angels by Russell Edson
- The Sitter by Shel Silverstein
- Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd. by Walt Whitman
- Fragment of an Ode to Maia poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: This Is No My Ain Lassie:
- Riding Together by William Morris
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- Валерий Брюсов – К.Д. Бальмонту (Вечно вольный, вечно юный)
- Hail, Zaragoza! If With Unwet eye by William Wordsworth
- Олег Сердобольский – Корова и божья коровка
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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