When I see a couple of kids
And guess he’s fucking her and she’s
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise
Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives–
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side
Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide
To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if
Anyone looked at me, forty years back,
And thought, That’ll be the life;
No God any more, or sweating in the dark
About hell and that, or having to hide
What you think of the priest. He
And his lot will all go down the long slide
Like free bloody birds. And immediately
Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- How to Write Creative Non-fiction
- Break of Day by Siegfried Sassoon
- An Immorality poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Живу я в лучшем из миров
- The Mower To The Glo-Worms poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Secret Music by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Lost Friend poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Taylor Swift
- Our Be’thplace by William Barnes
- Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry: Requesting a Favour
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- Наум Коржавин – На побывке
- The True Beauty of Poetry
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.