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
- Ольга Седакова – Баллада
- To Beatrice Stuart–Wortley Ætat poem – Alfred Austin
- On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley
- The Mermaid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic by Robert Burns
- Ballades III – Of Blue China poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Георгий Иванов – То, о чем искусство лжет
- Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence by William Shakespeare
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
- Sonnet 21 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnets CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Who is the Bogeyman? by Ross D Tyler
- The First Part: Sonnet 3 – Ye who so curiously do paint your thoughts, by William Drummond
- The Gardener XIII: I Asked Nothing by Rabindranath Tagore
- Extempore in the Court of Session by Robert Burns
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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.