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 Набоков – Верба
- Fragment Of An Ode To Maia. Written On May Day 1818 poem – John Keats poems
- Miss Worthington by Rose Mary Boehm
- On Receiving Hayley’s Picture by William Cowper
- Олег Бундур – Деревенская история
- The Priestess of Panormita poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Vision of the Archangels. Руперт Брук.
- An Army Corps on the March. by Walt Whitman
- Низами Гянджеви – Я бросил молодость в пожар моей любви
- My Mother’s Body by Marge Piercy
- A Nativity by William Butler Yeats
- La Vie Boheme poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- Алишер Навои – Кипарис подобен розе увлажненной
- Ольга Ермолаева – В кирзовых сапогах скользить по горной глине
- Gravity Suspended
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
