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Like an outdated combine harvester,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
- Two Hundred Years After by Siegfried Sassoon
- At Sea by Sara Teasdale
- Наум Коржавин – Гамлет
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грусть моя, тоска моя
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- The Quarry by William Vaughn Moody
- San Francisco Night Windows by Robert Penn Warren
- Вера Полозкова – Мне бы только хотелось
- Exposure by Wilfred Owen
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 26. Erin, Oh Erin. Томас Мур.
- Владимир Маяковский – Постоял здесь, мотнулся туда
- The Battle Of Salamis
- A Man (In Memory of H. of M.) by Thomas Hardy
- The Fish by William Butler Yeats
- Song of the Exposition. by Walt Whitman
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.