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 Высоцкий – У профессиональных игроков
- Иван Бунин – Беру твою руку и долго смотрю
- Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann by Robert Burns
- Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
- Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
- Mr. Brain by Russell Edson
- Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father by Robert Burns
- Sonnet. To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown poem – John Keats poems
- The First Part: Sonnet 12 – Ah! burning thoughts, now let me take some rest, by William Drummond
- Sword Blades and Poppy Seed poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Раек (РОСТА №8)
- Hymn To Adversity by Thomas Gray
- I love you
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи к портрету И.И. Дмитриева (Министр, поэт и друг)
- Saint George the Dragon by Michael Nikoletseas
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.