it was not Alisa
the girl who posed in the photograph
with bare
feet, half-naked, dressed
in rags, her dark hair
cropped short
one hand pressed against her waist
as if dancing
palm stretched out for alms
with naked
shoulders
it was certainly not Alisa
that girl grew into a charming
Victorian lady
gave birth to three sons, two
died in the Great War
no it was not Alisa
who was seen
one hot summer afternoon, floating in a boat
on the river, by a lecturer in mathematics, an eccentric
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Nos Immortales by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Olney Hymn 23: Pleading For And With Youth by William Cowper
- Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann by Robert Burns
- Repentance by Shailendra Chauhan
- Владимир Маяковский – В России голод… (Главполитпросвет № 236)
- Юнна Мориц – Свежий бублик
- Николай Заболоцкий – Сон
- Patterns poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Ballad of the King’s Jest by Rudyard Kipling
- Inscription For A Hermitage In The Author’s Garden by William Cowper
- Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still by William Shakespeare
- A Week Later by Sharon Olds
- Soldier an’ Sailor Too by Rudyard Kipling
- A Summary History of Lord Clive by William Topaz McGonagall
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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).
