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
- The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
- Илья Зданевич – Экспромт
- Владимир Маяковский – С Польшей подписан мир… (РОСТА №428)
- I like to let the word fly about by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Betrayal poem – Alice Notley
- New Hampshire by Robert Frost
- Олег Бундур – Яблоко
- Grass by Russell Edson
- Athor and Asar poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster by Robert Burns
- Михаил Кузмин – Все дни у Бога хороши
- The Voice of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
- Love Sonnet XXVI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Степан Щипачев – Березка
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).
