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
- Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town by T. S. Eliot
- It Is a Beauteous Evening by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns:
- The Light o’ the Moon by Vachel Lindsay
- Death by William Butler Yeats
- When The Green Lies Over The Earth poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Two Or Three: A Recipe To Make A Cuckold poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet CXLVII by William Shakespeare
- Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Incommunicado by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Языков – Романс (Красой небесною прекрасна)
- Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Youth And Beauty by William Carlos Williams
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).
