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
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Tom May’s Death poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- My Garden by Sappho
- Zummer Thoughts In Winter Time by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: Third Version
- Lamp Of Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Вера Павлова – Праздник после праздника
- Омар Хайям – Небо кушак, что облек изнуренный мой стан
- Our Army Of The Dead by Will McKendree Carleton
- Константин Бальмонт – Чудовище с клеймом
- Sonnet XVII. Happy Is England poem – John Keats poems
- The Last Letter by Priyanka Tungana
- Hymn To Apollo poem – John Keats poems
- To A Young Writer by Yvor Winters
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищ! Если ты пришел на Сухаревку… (РОСТА №262)
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).
