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
- Epistle II: To A Lady (Of the Characters of Women) poem – Alexander Pope
- Clouds Above The Sea by Philip Levine
- The man with the blue eye by Neelam Shah
- The Girt Wold House O’ Mossy Stwone by William Barnes
- Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 4 by Robert Burns
- To G.A.W. poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank:
- Sonnet # 15 by Luis A. Estable
- Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns
- salamis_quot.html
- A Bay In Anglesey poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The Victory Obtained By Blake Over the Spaniards, In The Bay Of Scanctacruze, In The Island Of teneriff.1657 poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon
- Keepe On Your Maske (Version for his Mistress) by William Strode
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).
