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
- Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
- Story by Stephen Dunn
- Love Sonnet LX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Robert Burns: Lines Written In Friars’-Carse Hermitage:
- Sonnet I: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase by William Shakespeare
- Юрий Верховский – Ах, душечка моя, как нынче мне светло
- An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic by Vachel Lindsay
- Алишер Навои – О сердце, столько на земле
- 10 Things I Do Every Day by Ted Berrigan
- Feast of the Eyes
- Зинаида Александрова – Подснежник
- A Hillside Thaw by Robert Frost
- Sonet 58 by William Alexander
- Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
- Hymn To Death poem – Alfred Austin
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.