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
- Николай Гумилев – Маскарад
- A Brief History of Special Education
- The Return by Sara Teasdale
- On The Way To The Bottom by Shel Silverstein
- Pensive and Faltering. by Walt Whitman
- At the Party by W H Auden
- Men Improve With The Years by William Butler Yeats
- Федор Сологуб – Певице
- Song—A Health to ane I loe dear by Robert Burns
- Зинаида Александрова – В гости к бабушке
- Эмиль Верхарн – Заблуждение
- Гавриил Державин – На возвращение графа Зубова из Персии
- Владимир Высоцкий – Расскажи, дорогой
- Огюст Барбье – Видимость
- A VOW TO VENUS by Robert Herrick
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.