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
- Николай Заболоцкий – Гроза идет
- Hart-Leap Well by William Wordsworth
- Senec. Traged. Ex Thyeste Chor.2 poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Юрий Левитанский – Человек, строящий воздушные замки
- To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho
- Владимир Маяковский – Слушай, наводчик
- Эмиль Верхарн – Восстание
- Алексей Плещеев – Мною злых и глупых шуток
- Николай Глазков – Пусть будет эта повесть
- In The Night by Stevie Smith
- Persuasions to Joy, a Song by Thomas Carew
- Sonnet Viii
- Robert Burns: Sketch -New Year’s Day [1790]: To Mrs. Dunlop.
- WINGS ATTACHED by Satish Verma
- Sonnet 14 poem – John Milton poems
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).
