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:
- Шекспир – Лелеет лето лучший свой цветок – Сонет 94
- Cambridge in the Long poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Surreal landscapes by Sunil Sharma
- Quarrel In Old Age by William Butler Yeats
- Canzone by W H Auden
- The Folly Of Being Comforted by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Бундур – Шляпа
- A Boston Ballad, 1854. by Walt Whitman
- The Melancholy of Birth
- Олег Григорьев – Лежу я в одиночестве
- Владимир Орлов – Добрый день
- Иван Бунин – Ночного неба свод далекий
- Такахама Кёси – Мимо порта родного
- The City Limits poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- The House Where We Were Wed by Will McKendree Carleton
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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
