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
- La Regina Avrillouse poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Яков Полонский – Не жди
- The Immortal Part poem – A. E. Housman
- Омар Хайям – Не бойтесь дарить согревающих слов
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама Резинотрест
- Николай Некрасов – Я не люблю иронии твоей
- Robert Burns: The Farewell:
- Occupy the Wall Street by Sunil Sharma
- “Call Not The Royal Swede Unfortunate” by William Wordsworth
- The Poet as Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
- O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Корнилов – На колоннаде
- Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day by William Cowper
- Blind by Siegfried Sassoon
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.