by Alan Noakes
Yes the ‘if onlys’ seem to persist for ever
As hovering wraithlike used-up dreams.
‘if only ‘ this or that
On such and such a day
Had varied by an hour or an inch
Or something neglected had been done
Or that something done had been neglected
Then ‘perhaps’ the other might have been:
But then
‘perhaps’ and ‘if only’ are first cousins
Addicted to survival only in our minds.
Copyright ©:
Alan Noakes
A few random poems:
- Christmas Dance of the Hours by Michael T. Bee
- Augustus Gloop… by Roald Dahl
- Milagros Retenidos poem – Ana Chig poems | Poems and Poetry
- St. Roach by Muriel Rukeyser
- Song At Capri by Sara Teasdale
- Feast of the Eyes
- In The Country – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Schlummerland – Slumberland / CD by Roland Zoss
- To his Indifferent Mistress by William Wycherley
- Владимир Маяковский – Два гренадера и один адмирал
- In the Old Age of the Soul poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Written On The Day That Mr Leigh Hunt Left Prison poem – John Keats poems
- A Dream of Rodney King by Mary TallMountain
- Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Tip tap RAIN by Neelam Sinha
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
