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 Thief
- Eco en la madrugada by Mara Romero Torres
- A Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Федор Сваровский – Пилот и Биби Хлотрос
- Нина Воронель – Дождливый рассвет
- Essential Beauty by Philip Larkin
- Free Fantasia On Japanese Themes poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Анатолий Жигулин – Цветы сажают в торф
- Nature’s Law: A Poem by Robert Burns
- greece.html
- The Sirens’ Song by William Browne
- Love Equals Insanity by Talha Jafri
- In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
- Наум Коржавин – Есть у тех, кому нету места
- Eclogue III by Virgil
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.