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
- Olney Hymn 48: Joy And Peace In Believing by William Cowper
- In Every Direction by Ralph Angel
- The Bowling-Green by William Somervile
- The Drunkards in the Street by Vachel Lindsay
- Ольга Берггольц – Борису Корнилову
- A Nativity by William Butler Yeats
- The Identification by Roger McGough
- Вероника Тушнова – Костер
- An Immorality poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Wine by Sara Teasdale
- Аля Кудряшева – Вечер большого дня
- The Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Bean Vield by William Barnes
- By Philemon by William Cowper
- The Voice by Sara Teasdale
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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.