When I see a couple of kids
And guess he’s fucking her and she’s
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise
Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives–
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side
Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide
To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if
Anyone looked at me, forty years back,
And thought, That’ll be the life;
No God any more, or sweating in the dark
About hell and that, or having to hide
What you think of the priest. He
And his lot will all go down the long slide
Like free bloody birds. And immediately
Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Британишский – Несбывшееся
- Низами Гянджеви – О кипарис с плавной поступью мри
- The tragic tale of Bobby Magee by Ross D Tyler
- Call It Music by Philip Levine
- Наум Коржавин – Легкость
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 42. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- The Five Adorations poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Омар Хайям – Красой затмила ты Китая дочерей
- A Farewell poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Аля Кудряшева – Осень в городе
- The Gardener XXVIII: Your Questioning Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Freedom poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Карамзин – Эпитафия Джону Гею
- Lifetime Of Death by Steve Sant
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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.