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:
- A Song at Cock-Crow by Rudyard Kipling
- Heavy Woman by Sylvia Plath
- Death Of Captain Cooke, by William Lisle Bowles
- Николай Языков – Странный случай
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 1 к статуе Петра Великого
- From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i poem – John Milton poems
- Омар Хайям – Друг, два понятия должен бы ты затвердить
- Владимир Набоков – Еще безмолвствую и крепну я в тиши
- The Madness Of King Goll by William Butler Yeats
- A Song of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
- All Days Seem Same
- Anguish of Fate by Pierre Reverdy
- Azure and Gold poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan
- Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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
