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
- Frijolita by Manolo Arriola
- The Silence In The Church
- Valentine In Form Of Ballade poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Two Springs by William Somervile
- Song. Good Counsel to a Young Maid by Thomas Carew
- An American by Rudyard Kipling
- Second Epistle to J. Lapraik by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Чудеса
- Федор Сологуб – Кукушка кукует
- Василий Курочкин – Как не вскрикнуть тут с поэтом
- Robert Burns: On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain: A Fragment
- Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Come home, sweetheart by Raj Arumugam
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Из поэмы “Дуняша”
- Владимир Высоцкий – Все ушли на фронт
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).
