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:
- Old And New by Rabindranath Tagore
- Гавриил Державин – Капнисту
- Orlando Furioso Canto 18 by Ludovico Ariosto
- He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- CIA Dope Calypso by Allen Ginsberg
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Мне ль позабыть огонь и живость)
- Faith by John Oxenham
- The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes
- I don’t want to have you by Vinko Kalinic
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- Ярослав Смеляков – Русский язык
- Robin Hood poem – John Keats poems
- Trebetherick poem – John Betjeman poems
- Олег Бундур – Ужин
- Journey Of Life by Nikhil Srinivas
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
