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
- Наум Коржавин – Мне без тебя так трудно жить
- Sonnet 10
- Gadara, A.D. 31 by John Oxenham
- A Message from my Lodge at Wangchuan to Pei Di by Wang Wei
- Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank by Robert Burns
- Show me by Rixa White
- A daily prayer by a kid by Sunil Sharma
- Robert Burns: Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie:
- Стефан Малларме – Отходит кружево опять
- Ольга Седакова – Три богини
- Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen by William Butler Yeats
- The Identification by Roger McGough
- Glitches by Satish Verma
- The Current by Raymond Carver
- Омар Хайям – О, если б, захватив с собой стихов диван
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.