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 May-Tree by William Barnes
- Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- La Nuit Blanche by Rudyard Kipling
- Another Song by Philip Levine
- Ольга Берггольц – Ласточки над обрывом
- On The Death Of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield by Phillis Wheatley
- Tommy by Rudyard Kipling
- Water Strider
- A New Age by W H Auden
- Myfanwy poem – John Betjeman poems
- After Rain by P. K. Page
- Clouds by Philip Levine
- In Memoriam F.O.S. by Sara Teasdale
- The Ladies by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet # 9 by Luis A. Estable
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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.