Thinking in terms of one
Is easily done—
One room, one bed, one chair,
One person there,
Makes perfect sense; one set
Of wishes can be met,
One coffin filled.
But counting up to two
Is harder to do;
For one must be denied
Before it’s tried.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Rapture by Neil Outar
- Silver Wedding by Vernon Scannell
- Олег Бундур – Старания
- Christmas poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- To a Lady, Who Made Me a Present of a Silver Pen by William Somervile
- Николай Гумилев – Орел Синдбада
- Wish If You…! by Praveen Parasar
- How Sweet I Roam’d by William Blake
- The Grizzly Bear poem – A. E. Housman
- Storm and Sunlight by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Высоцкий – Странные скачки
- If Death Is Kind by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Светлые ночи
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- Olney Hymn 59: A Living And A Dead Faith by William Cowper
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.