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
- Audley Court poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Hortus poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Олег Бундур – Уроки
- Аля Кудряшева – Осень в городе
- Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare
- The Happy Days When I Wer Young by William Barnes
- The Fading Flower by Will McKendree Carleton
- The Kiss: A Dialogue by Robert Herrick
- The Do’set Militia by William Barnes
- Ольга Берггольц – Озерный край
- Ts’ai Chi’h poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожный дневник: Часть IV
- Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
- Robert Burns: Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain:
- Less Than The Cloud To The Wind by Sara Teasdale
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).
