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
- Come, Come, Whoever You Are by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Higher Pantheism poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Stir in Stillness by Shruti Talnikar
- Aix In Provence by Robert Browning
- On A Similar Character (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill poem – John Keats poems
- Composed By The Sea-Side, Near Calais, August 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Poor Devil! by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Sonnet CXXXIII by William Shakespeare
- Зинаида Александрова – Таня и волчок
- A World So Different by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Олег Бундур – Я вырасту, мама
- Ок Мельникова – Не в этот раз
- The Silence In The Church
- Ruined World by Michael Yuan
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).
