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
- To a Historian. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: My Collier Laddie:
- Robert Burns: The Gowden Locks Of Anna:
- The Burnt-Out Spa by Sylvia Plath
- Олег Григорьев – Пьет оса кисель из чашки
- Lemmebesomethin’ by Shel Silverstein
- To the Right Hon. The Earl of Halifax , with the Fable of the Two Springs by William Somervile
- Vaishnavi Prakash by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Keepe On Your Maske And Hide Your Eye by William Strode
- All in June by William Henry Davies
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Waldenses by William Wordsworth
- I Have Become Very Hairy by Yehuda Amichai
- If The World Was Crazy by Shel Silverstein
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.