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
- After Hearing a Waltz poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 03
- Happy Teacher’s Day by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ночная смена
- Bill ‘Awkins by Rudyard Kipling
- Attention please! Attention please! by Roald Dahl
- Владимир Набоков – Какое сделал я дурное дело
- I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth
- Юлиан Анисимов – Из Рильке
- Surrounded
- Invitation To The Redbreast by William Cowper
- Hurry by Marie Howe
- The Voice of Woman by Shahida Latif
- The Return of Persephone
- Lonely Burial by Stephen Vincent Benet
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).
