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
- Statement of Being poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Не может быть, чтоб жили мы напрасно
- Listening To Rwanda Genocide by Satish Verma
- A Writer’s Pen by Sahiti Siddharth
- The Mead A-Mow’d by William Barnes
- A Song of Kabir by Rudyard Kipling
- Sleepless by Sara Teasdale
- Ripening by Wendell Berry
- Sonnet VI. To G. A. W. poem – John Keats poems
- Федор Сологуб – Забыв о счастьи, о весельи
- Green Thumb by Philip Levine
- Like Barley Bending by Sara Teasdale
- Late Light by Philip Levine
- What the Sexton Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Your choice by Mrunmayi Mandan
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.