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:
- Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day by William Shakespeare
- In The Stilness O’ The Night by William Barnes
- Вера Павлова – О чем
- Awake by Sara Herlihy
- I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish
- An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by William Butler Yeats
- Two Views Of A Cadaver Room by Sylvia Plath
- XV: Some Verses: Ciprian’s Smyling by William Alexander
- Sonnet: Oh! How I Love, On A Fair Summer’s Eve poem – John Keats poems
- English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 2. Исаак Уоттс.
- The Clasp by Sharon Olds
- Владимир Высоцкий – Тексты для капустника к 5-летию Театра на Таганке
- Владимир Маяковский – Нас шахтер углем поздравит… (РОСТА)
- Joy and Pleasure by William Henry Davies
- Where’s the Poet? poem – John Keats poems
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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
