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:
- Child of a Day by Walter Savage Landor
- The Dawn Of American Literature
- Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change by William Shakespeare
- Karazah Karl
- My Child Wafts Peace by Yehuda Amichai
- An Eare-Stringe by William Strode
- On Receiving Heyne’s Virgil From Mr. Hayley by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Проверь, товарищ, правильность факта
- The Tent poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm by Rudyard Kipling
- Psalm 01 poem – John Milton poems
- The Higher Pantheism poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Bathed in War’s Perfume. by Walt Whitman
- Think No More, Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- Николай Языков – Жизни баловень счастливый
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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
