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:
- The Flower of Mending by Vachel Lindsay
- On Visiting The Tomb Of Burns poem – John Keats poems
- The Owl by Ted Hughes
- Memory by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming by William Shakespeare
- Mary’s Song by Sylvia Plath
- On A Plant Of Virgin’s-Bower, Designed To Cover A Garden-seat by William Cowper
- Feelings of A French Royalist, On The Disinterment Of The Remains Of The Duke D’Enghien by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Толстой – Уж ты нива моя, нивушка
- Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Олег Григорьев – Иду я среди голодный
- Tear of warm dew of mind by Seema Gupta
- The Declaration of London by Rudyard Kipling
- CIA Dope Calypso by Allen Ginsberg
- To One Shortly to Die. by Walt Whitman
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
