Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
Whatever they are,
As bribes to teach them how to execute
Sixteen sexual positions on the sand;
This makes them join (the boys) the tennis club,
Jive at the Mecca, use deodorants, and
On Saturdays squire ex-schoolgirls to the pub
By private car.
Such uncorrected visions end in church
Or registrar:
A mortgaged semi- with a silver birch;
Nippers; the widowed mum; having to scheme
With money; illness; age. So absolute
Maturity falls, when old men sit and dream
Of naked native girls who bring breadfruit
Whatever they are.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
- Alone by Yvor Winters
- Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is by William Shakespeare
- The Lantern Out Of Doors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Drèven O’ The Common by William Barnes
- nonsense verse by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Высоцкий – О нашей встрече
- The Song of the Garden-Toad by Vachel Lindsay
- Finis by Walter Savage Landor
- Impromptu on Dumourier’s Desertion of the French Republican Army by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now by William Shakespeare
- The Columbian Exchange Beginning With Spanish Colonization
- Из всех искусств кинематограф
- The Warning by Robert Creeley
- Anticipation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.