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
- Songs of Depression poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
- Days and Nights by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Владимир Набоков – Поэт
- Only Iraq by Mahmoud Darwish
- Олег Григорьев – Дружба
- Юрий Коринец – О стиральной машине
- Василий Курочкин – Старая песня
- Sonnet CXIX by William Shakespeare
- Sleep by Russell Edson
- The Eve Of St. Agnes poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Британишский – Мне скучно
- Postip by Manolo Arriola
- Until You’ve Found Pain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Far Within Us #1 by Vasko Popa
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).
