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Like an outdated combine harvester,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
- Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Из допущенных в рай и повергнутых в ад
- A Saint Between Us by Satish Verma
- Sport
- Never Give All The Heart by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Бундур – Заповедная жизнь
- A Woman Unconscious by Ted Hughes
- And She is Spoke by Winifred Mary Letts
- Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep by Mary Frye
- Behold, the grave of a wicked man by Stephen Crane
- The Mermaid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old by William Wordsworth
- The Frivolity of Dreaming by Mahi Chauhan
- All In A Word
- Corn Grinders by Sarojini Naidu
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.