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
- Владимир Маяковский – Две культуры
- Николай Заболоцкий – Дождь
- As Like The Woman As You Can by William Ernest Henley
- A Man Young And Old: VIII. Summer And Spring by William Butler Yeats
- E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Merry Guide poem – A. E. Housman
- Diary of a Church Mouse poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet XVII. Happy Is England poem – John Keats poems
- What Work Is by Philip Levine
- Новелла Матвеева – Страна Дельфиния
- The Deserter by Winifred Mary Letts
- Владимир Вишневский – Нервическая песнь
- That devil of a man
- Николай Заболоцкий – Осеннее утро
- The Ugly Little Bird
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).
