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
- From The Italian Of Michael Angelo by William Wordsworth
- Николай Заболоцкий – Подводный город
- In a Sombre Mood by Satish Verma
- Как хорошо, что рядом верная подруга
- Grass is a taut crew; poem – Amy Michelle Mosier poems | Poems and Poetry
- Limitations by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Гербель – Бокал
- The Aisne
- Eclogue:–The ‘Lotments by William Barnes
- Something by Robert Creeley
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о планах
- When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer. by Walt Whitman
- Convalescent poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вера Павлова – Поколенье, лишённое почерка и походки
- Anne Pennington by Vasko Popa
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.