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Like an outdated combine harvester,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 Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Untitled #13 by Nijole Miliauskaite
- The Common A-Took In by William Barnes
- Stillborn by Sylvia Plath
- ah poor moon by Raj Arumugam
- As At Thy Portals Also Death. by Walt Whitman
- Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds
- Spring poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
- How a Little Girl Danced by Vachel Lindsay
- A Parænesis To Prince Henry by William Alexander
- Robert Burns: Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit Night, December 4th, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries.:
- Илья Эренбург – Взвился рыжий, ближе
- the_holy_tree.html
- The Old Land And The Young Land 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.