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
- Untitled XII by Yunus Emre
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- A character of it’s own by Sylvan Lightbourne
- Loud Silence by Preethi Saravanakumar
- Sexual eyes poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Яков Полонский – Наплывает туча с моря
- Don’t Hang Up The Phone by Miraj Patel
- The Winds Out of the West Land Blow poem – A. E. Housman
- English Literature for Shaping Your Ideas
- Владимир Луговской – Гуниб
- Английская поэзия. Перси Биши Шелли. К Мэри Шелли. Percy Bysshe Shelley. To Mary Shelley
- Gem Immortality
- A Way to Love God by Robert Penn Warren
- Владимир Солоухин – Ветер
- The Queen
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