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Like an outdated combine harvester,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
- The Thorns In The Geäte by William Barnes
- Sonnet CIX by William Shakespeare
- Sunstroke
- The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Queen’s Complaint by Sylvia Plath
- Ghazal 119 by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- His Mercy Endureth For Ever by John Oxenham
- Mary Ambree poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Token by Robert Creeley
- Chanson D’Amour by Shaunna Harper
- Владимир Гандельсман – Воскрешение матери
- France, the 18th year of These States. by Walt Whitman
- Ballade Of Roulette poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Chi È? poem – Alfred Austin
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.