How distant, the departure of young men
Down valleys, or watching
The green shore past the salt-white cordage
Rising and falling.
Cattlemen, or carpenters, or keen
Simply to get away
From married villages before morning,
Melodeons play
On tiny decks past fraying cliffs of water
Or late at night
Sweet under the differently-swung stars,
When the chance sight
Of a girl doing her laundry in the steerage
Ramifies endlessly.
This is being young,
Assumption of the startled century
Like new store clothes,
The huge decisions printed out by feet
Inventing where they tread,
The random windows conjuring a street.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonnet CXXIX by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Степанов – Хлопотунья
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – В метро
- Владимир Маяковский – Профплакаты
- Power of Peace by Rixa White
- Hobbinol; or The Rural Games by William Somervile
- how did poetry begin? by Raj Arumugam
- Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- Exposure by Wilfred Owen
- Владимир Британишский – Крылов и тверяки
- Waiting For The Beloved — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Зинаида Александрова – Игрушки
- The French And the Spanish Guerillas by William Wordsworth
- Зинаида Александрова – Волчонок
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.