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
- Омар Хайям – Люди тлеют в могилах, ничем становясь
- At Delphi poem – Alfred Austin
- Зинаида Александрова – Маленькой елочке холодно зимой
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- A Letter To Doctor Ingelo, then With My Lord Whitlock, Amba poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Effect by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Emigrant by Ndue Ukaj
- Far Within Us #4 by Vasko Popa
- Tatiana’s Letter poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Владимир Степанов – Кот
- A Dainty Thing’s The Villanelle by William Ernest Henley
- A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
- Валерий Брюсов – Гесперидовы сады
- Sonnet # 21 by Luis A. Estable
- A Poem about Lemonade
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).
