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
- Boris Godunov poem – Alexander Pushkin
- A General Summary by Rudyard Kipling
- Love Equals Insanity by Talha Jafri
- As Like The Woman As You Can by William Ernest Henley
- Some Kiss We Want by Rumi
- Invern poem – Ezra Pound poems
- I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth
- Day That I Have Loved by Rupert Brooke
- Interrupted Meditation by Robert Hass
- Юрий Верховский – Как раненый олень кидается в поток
- To the Muse poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Волк-дурень
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- A Gravestone by William Allingham
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).
