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
- Федор Тютчев – Как дымный столп светлеет в вышине
- Carrion Comfort poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- My Mother’s Grief
- All through eternity by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Николай Заболоцкий – Осеннее утро
- The Eviction by William Allingham
- The Gardener LVII: I Plucked Your Flower by Rabindranath Tagore
- John Bloom In Lon’on by William Barnes
- Song—Address to the Woodlark by Robert Burns
- On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley
- Garden of Sprites by Lyndsey Hylton
- Full Moon by Tu Fu
- To Foreign Lands. by Walt Whitman
- Василий Тредиаковский – Невозможно быть довольным
- Валерий Брюсов – К портрету К.Д. Бальмонта
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.