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
- Feelings of A French Royalist, On The Disinterment Of The Remains Of The Duke D’Enghien by William Wordsworth
- Николай Огарев – Выпьем, что ли, Ваня
- The Tree Of Song by Sara Teasdale
- Эмиль Верхарн – Законы
- Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet CXXXIX by William Shakespeare
- Федор Сваровский – Речь на юбилее
- From My Diary, July 1914 by Wilfred Owen
- Алексей Жемчужников – Причина разногласия
- Олег Бундур – Барашки
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Е. А. Карлгоф
- Summer We Called Home by Vinita Agrawal
- traveling.html
- Валерий Брюсов – Февраль
- Off the Ground by Walter de la Mare
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.