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
- Владимир Маяковский – За 10 месяцев 1920 года… (РОСТА №748)
- Владимир Маяковский – Современный Козьма Прутков
- Владимир Маяковский – Помогите цинготным детям (Главполитпросвет №274)
- Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
- I looked here by Stephen Crane
- Living with Cancer by Nin Andrews
- Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat :
- Владимир Маяковский – Чье рождество
- Character Of Charles Brown poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: On A Henpecked Country Squire:
- Robert Burns: To Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer: Ellisland, Nithsdale, July 27th, 1788.
- Michaelangelo by Vachel Lindsay
- Boy Running In The Rain
- I. The Witch of Coös by Robert Frost
- And because Love battles by Pablo Neruda
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).
