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:
- Омар Хайям – Моя любовь к тебе достигла совершенства
- The Eye-Mote by Sylvia Plath
- Let go of your worries by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Awaken by Mark Miller
- Омар Хайям – Не оплакивай, смертный, вчерашних потерь
- Love’s Unity poem – Alfred Austin
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- Stans Puer ad Mensam by Sir Walter Raleigh
- The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
- To Leonide Massine in ‘Cleopatra’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- Memo to my Spouse by Adeola Ikuomola
- Bredon Hill poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way by William Shakespeare
- Новелла Матвеева – Есть вопиющий быт, есть вещие примеры
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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
