Continuing to live — that is, repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries —
Is nearly always losing, or going without.
It varies.
This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise —
Ah, if the game were poker, yes,
You might discard them, draw a full house!
But it’s chess.
And once you have walked the length of your mind, what
You command is clear as a lading-list.
Anything else must not, for you, be thought
To exist.
And what’s the profit? Only that, in time,
We half-identify the blind impress
All our behavings bear, may trace it home.
But to confess,
On that green evening when our death begins,
Just what it was, is hardly satisfying,
Since it applied only to one man once,
And that one dying.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- In A Railroad Station by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Корнилов – Спортлото
- Robert Burns: Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain:
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances. by Walt Whitman
- A Highly Valuable Chain Of Thoughts poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Nanna by Ross D Tyler
- Confused and Distraught by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Song—O can ye Labour Lea? by Robert Burns
- With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
- A Voice
- The Match poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Маяковский – ПОДХОДИ, ТОВАРИЩ, СМОТРИ ЛУЧШЕ… (Главполитпросвет №69)
- Tom’s Garland poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
- The Other Half by Shaunna Harper
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).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.