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
- I Have a Fire for You in my Mouth by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A Mathematical Problem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Faith by John Oxenham
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ревность
- His Last Sonnet poem – John Keats poems
- Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
- Flowers By The Sea by William Carlos Williams
- To A Cricket by Michael McGovern
- Михаил Лермонтов – Что толку жить!.. Без приключений
- Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
- In a Subway Station by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Заболоцкий – Урал
- Английская поэзия. Айзек Розенберг. Дочери войны. Isaac Rosenberg. Daughters of War
- Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee by Robert Burns
- Black Market Love by Taisha Destin
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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.