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
- Beachy Blues poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Man Young And Old: II. Human Dignity by William Butler Yeats
- Shema by Primo Levi
- Palanquin Bearers by Sarojini Naidu
- Нина Воронель – Вечная мерзлота
- To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Like The Water by Wendell Berry
- Coming To This by Mark Strand
- Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be by Vachel Lindsay
- Now Close the Windows by Robert Frost
- Poems from Makiwane poem – Amitabh Mitra poems | Poems and Poetry
- Disconnect by Snowdon King
- Robinson by Weldon Kees
- My Desire
- Михаил Ломоносов – На Фридриха II, короля Прусского (Сочинение господина Вольтера, переведенное господином Ломоносовым)
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.