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
- Thrushes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Buying leeks by Yosa Buson
- Soul by Malkia Charlee NoCry
- The Motherless Child by William Barnes
- Holidays by Nicolene Kissinger
- Morning Song in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Lines Written On A Banknote:
- The Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
- Олег Бундур – Кто идет?
- Ape by Russell Edson
- Николай Карамзин – Impromptu графине Р, которой в одной святошной игре досталось быть королевою
- Алишер Навои – О сердце, столько на земле
- Negligence
- Владимир Британишский – По Иртышу
- Ольга Берггольц – Не может быть, чтоб жили мы напрасно
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.