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:
- Нина Найденова – Наши игрушки
- On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird by William Cowper
- Sounds of your love poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch by William Shakespeare
- Freddy by Stevie Smith
- Константин Бальмонт – Надгробные цветы
- Ode to H.H. The Nizam Of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
- The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry
- Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor by Robert Burns
- SOFT MUSIC by Robert Herrick
- The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca
- Come Into The Garden, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- All About You by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё с себя снимаю, слишком душно
- Владимир Солоухин – У моря
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
