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
- Владимир Маяковский – В Париже совещание “живых сил” (РОСТА №851)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тост
- Written After Leaving Her At New Burns by William Cowper
- Remorse by Siegfried Sassoon
- How Sleep the Brave by Walter de la Mare
- After Rain by P. K. Page
- Олег Бундур – Дождь
- Christmas Star by Walter William Safar
- A Captive Throstle poem – Alfred Austin
- The Bard by Thomas Gray
- The Gardener XX: Day After Day He Comes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: The Highland Widow’s Lament :
- Starting from Paumanok. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Седакова – Баллада
- Trio Of Love Songs by Sylvia Plath
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.