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 Broncho That Would Not Be Broken by Vachel Lindsay
- Carry Her Over the Water by W H Auden
- Ольга Берггольц – Не сына, не младшего брата
- The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
- Ольга Седакова – Первая тетрадь
- Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws by William Shakespeare
- Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова дрожат они, грезы бессильные
- My Friend’s Light poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- On The Benefit Received By His Majesty From Sea-Bathing, In The Year 1789 by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin:
- Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
- Владимир Британишский – В нашем вновь обретенном ленинградском доме
- You and I by Roger McGough
- Prisoner by Rabindranath Tagore
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.