Don’t call me Ma’am,
it just isn’t right.
I know down here in the south,
parents have raised their children to be polite.
It makes me feel old,
and that just isn’t me.
Save your Ma’ams for some other old person,
I am only 53.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
- The Given Heart
- In Memoriam
- Алексей Плещеев – Она и он
- The Dying Prince
- Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
- Вероника Тушнова – Я поднимаюсь по колючим склонам
- Untitled IV by Yunus Emre
- The Early Purges by Seamus Heaney
- A Rare Guest poem – Alfred Austin
- Ольга Седакова – Только время доходит сюда
- Нина Гаген-Торн – Возвращение
- Poems On Beauty by Rabindranath Tagore
- Огюст Барбье – Любовь к песням
- Dreaming of Li Po by Tu Fu
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).