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:
- St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- An Epitaph (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Берггольц – Вечерняя станция
- Ольга Седакова – Азаровка
- Widow by Sylvia Plath
- Станислав Востоков – Не хочется отцу и маме
- Владимир Маяковский – Дурацкий сон (РОСТА №234)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бездна
- Николай Языков – Послание к А. Н. Очкину (О, ты, с которым я, от юношеских лет)
- Three Songs Of Zahir U Din
- Without You by Miraj Patel
- Everybody’s Makin’ It Big But Me by Shel Silverstein
- On An Insight On Grecian Spring by Nithin Purple
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXXI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross 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
- 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
