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
- Ballad on the American War by Robert Burns
- Николай Тихонов – Как след от весла
- In Answer to a Request poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney
- Persian Poem poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Анатолий Жигулин – Не надо бояться памяти
- Владимир Коркин – Август дозреет яблоком
- 1926 by Weldon Kees
- Sonnet CXL by William Shakespeare
- Ольга Берггольц – Тост
- Snake Pit by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Кондратий Рылеев – Оставь меня, Я здесь молю
- alexander.html
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – С винтовкой, но без знания – нет побед (РОСТА № 115)
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.