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
- America
- Валерий Брюсов – Последнее желанье
- An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq. by William Cowper
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Билла Сиггера
- He’s on the porch by Yosa Buson
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- The Room by Mark Strand
- Николай Языков – Давным-давно люблю я страстно
- Федор Сологуб – Купол церкви, крест и небо
- Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter by Robert Frost
- Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Владимир Британишский – Очереди
- Sleep
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh:
- On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage by William Cowper
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.