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Like an outdated combine harvester,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
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 X. Rob Roy’s Grave by William Wordsworth
- Rendezvous
- Ballade Of The Bookworm poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Hyla Brook by Robert Frost
- Ольга Седакова – То в теплом золоте, в широких переплетах
- Stings by Sylvia Plath
- Before The World Was Made by William Butler Yeats
- Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
- As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore
- Николай Языков – Услад
- Blank Dreams
- Владимир Маяковский – Частушки (Милкой мне в подарок бурка…)
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Владимир Маяковский – Собственную революцию удушив… (РОСТА №443)
- On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author’s Instance by William Cowper
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.