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
- When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich by Vachel Lindsay
- Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Бундур – 1 сентября
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Орест (перевод)
- Жан де Лафонтен – Осел со священной ношей
- Ready for Retirement by Mike Yuan
- The Wild Goose’s Will by Mike Yuan
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Владимир Гиппиус – Иначе, как стихами, говорить
- Яков Полонский – Откуда
- The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin by Rudyard Kipling
- The Mother by Patrick Pearse
- Alfred’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion by Samuel Coleridge
- Ah Poverties, Wincings and Sulky Retreats. by Walt Whitman
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.