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
- Gimmick In A Geisha by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Owen Aherne And His Dancers by William Butler Yeats
- Mary Ambree poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Time I Like Best by Roger McGough
- The Evening Light poem – Alfred Austin
- Юлия Друнина – Ты рядом
- The missing pen by Ross D Tyler
- Зинаида Александрова – Маленькой елочке холодно зимой
- Такахама Кёси – Неспешно ступает
- Did I Not Say To You by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: Masonic Song:
- Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh
- Artilleryman’s Vision, The. by Walt Whitman
- Shadow Overhead by Vaishnavi Prakash
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.