Thinking in terms of one
Is easily done—
One room, one bed, one chair,
One person there,
Makes perfect sense; one set
Of wishes can be met,
One coffin filled.
But counting up to two
Is harder to do;
For one must be denied
Before it’s tried.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владислав Ходасевич – О, если б в этот час желанного покоя
- Surf Song
- Владимир Маяковский – О дряни
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- Омар Хайям – Если есть у тебя для жилья закуток
- Robert Burns: The Winter Of Life:
- Владимир Набоков – Ut pictura poesis
- In a Subway Station by Sara Teasdale
- Love’s Harvest poem – Alfred Austin
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- Esteem for Chloris by Robert Burns
- Lying Down by Robert Desnos
- Николай Глазков – Должны мы все свой пай нести
- Sick Leave by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Про пешеходов и разинь, вонзивших глазки небу в синь
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.