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
- Ethiopia – Lalibela
- Excelsior. by Walt Whitman
- Recessional by Rudyard Kipling
- Race of Veterans. by Walt Whitman
- Olney Hymn 7: Vanity of the World by William Cowper
- Валерий Брюсов – Голубое, голубое
- Since We Must Die poem – Alfred Austin
- The Chipmunk by R. L. Karlowsky
- Николай Гумилев – Зараза
- Николай Языков – Романс (Красой небесною прекрасна)
- The Fool By The Roadside by William Butler Yeats
- Алексей Плещеев – Твоя любовь мне утешенье
- Robert Burns: On Commissary Goldie’s Brains:
- Historion poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A Greeting by William Henry Davies
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.