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
- Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland by Robert Burns
- For Fixation Who Loves Me Back poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Берггольц – Нам от тебя теперь не оторваться
- Only Iraq by Mahmoud Darwish
- A Promise to California. by Walt Whitman
- On The Decline Of Oracles by Sylvia Plath
- Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe
- Наталья Шевченко – Он не в себе
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Веселый ветер
- Robert Burns: O Wat Ye Wha’s In Yon Town:
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- If by Rudyard Kipling
- Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion by Wallace Stevens
- Nijole Miliauskaite – Nijole Miliauskaite
- Winter Wind by Vasil Slavov
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.