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
- Open sky by Shailendra Chauhan
- English Poetry. Henry Livingston. To the Memory of Sarah Livingston. Генри Ливингстон.
- A Way to Love God by Robert Penn Warren
- The Banyan Tree by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Британишский – Красный конь
- Robert Burns: You’re Welcome, Willie Stewart:
- Gangrene by Philip Levine
- Robert Burns: The Whistle -A Ballad:
- Johnny Rich by Will McKendree Carleton
- My Heritage
- Asparagus – A Tanka Poem
- TURNING GRAY by Satish Verma
- Pomona by William Morris
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Drapple-thorned Aphrodite, by Sappho
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.