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
- Time To Transplant by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Владимир Маяковский – Чье рождество
- Владимир Корнилов – Гитара
- Rile Me Up! by Michael D Wentworth
- To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation by Phillis Wheatley
- An Interchanging Poetry Expression Of Love by Mac McGovern
- I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- The Two Springs by William Somervile
- Омар Хайям – Мы пешки, небо же игрок
- Владимир Высоцкий – Снова печь барахлит, тут рублей не жалей
- A Question poem – Alfred Austin
- I know our friendship wil never end by Miraj Patel
- Наум Коржавин – Еще в мальчишеские годы
- Cavern in Paradise by Rita Odessa Villaruel
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.