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:
- To Melancholy- Written On An intensely agitated Day by Nithin Purple
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Кудри
- The Progress of Poesy by Thomas Gray
- Владимир Высоцкий – И в Дубне, и на Таганке что-то ставят, что-то строят
- Robert Burns: Epigram At Brownhill Inn:
- Огюст Барбье – Лев
- Владимир Корнилов – Трофейный фильм
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- A Lady Aurum by Thriveni Mysore
- Today’s News by Ted Berrigan
- Владимир Маяковский – Что делать?.. (РОСТА №193)
- A Saturday Sunrise by Philo Ikonya
- Николай Глазков – Богатырское распутье
- Back Home by Vladimir Mayakovsky
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
