Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.
It’s hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it’s been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.
Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it’s a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- On Seeing the Ladies Crux-Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto. poem – Alexander Pope
- Гавриил Державин – Песенка
- Nothing is Real by Rixa White
- life begins tomorrow by Raj Arumugam
- Be Lost In The Call by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Troopin’ by Rudyard Kipling
- Father Divine poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Вишневский – Незаконная гордость
- The Lion by Vachel Lindsay
- I see the Four-fold Man by William Blake
- Live for the moment, be in the present by Ramesh V Deshpande
- Book Eleventh: France [concluded] by William Wordsworth
- Strada’s Nightingale by William Cowper
- Again
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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.