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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грустная песня о Ванечке
- Владимир Маяковский – Радуются ли империалисты-победители? (Главполитпросвет №335)
- Living with Cancer by Nin Andrews
- Владимир Высоцкий – Перед выездом в загранку заполняешь кучу бланков
- It Is a Beauteous Evening by William Wordsworth
- The Sirens’ Song by William Browne
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (Куда так проворно, жидовка младая)
- Юлия Друнина – Ялта Чехова
- The Net by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore by William Shakespeare
- How to Make Money Online Writing and Selling eBooks
- America by Tony Hoagland
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
- A Farmhouse on the Wei River by Wang Wei
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
