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
- A Bay In Anglesey poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Invitation
- Numb by Stephenie Tucker
- Ulster by Rudyard Kipling
- Smoke by Théophile Gautier
- Aftershock by William Marr
- The Temple of Fame poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти О.Н. Чюминой
- Николай Языков – Песня (От сердца дружные с вином)
- Аля Кудряшева – Я работаю солнечной батареей
- Psalm 81 poem – John Milton poems
- Yew-Trees by William Wordsworth
- Spirit whose Work is Done. by Walt Whitman
- The Voice of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
- When I read the Book. by Walt Whitman
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.