it was not Alisa
the girl who posed in the photograph
with bare
feet, half-naked, dressed
in rags, her dark hair
cropped short
one hand pressed against her waist
as if dancing
palm stretched out for alms
with naked
shoulders
it was certainly not Alisa
that girl grew into a charming
Victorian lady
gave birth to three sons, two
died in the Great War
no it was not Alisa
who was seen
one hot summer afternoon, floating in a boat
on the river, by a lecturer in mathematics, an eccentric
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sleep
- Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent by William Shakespeare
- Atlantis by W H Auden
- Crowding by Satish Verma
- Алексей Толстой – Темнота и туман застилают мне путь
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. by Walt Whitman
- Epigram at Brownhill Inn by Robert Burns
- Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq. poem – John Keats poems
- Calypso by W H Auden
- The Confederate Flags poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – На высоком берегу
- Ship Starting, The. by Walt Whitman
- Lines By Taj Mahomed
- Василий Тредиаковский – Леший и мужик
- Covenent by Rudyard Kipling
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).
