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:
- Алексей Толстой – Рука Алкида тяжела
- Mesopotamia by Rudyard Kipling
- Let Me Not Forget by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Address to the Unco Guid by Robert Burns
- Олег Григорьев – Участковый стал в двери стучать
- Over The Hill From The Poor-House by Will McKendree Carleton
- The Hunter by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Британишский – На берегу
- Василий Курочкин – Казацкие стихотворения
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXXI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Алишер Навои – Сверкнула в темноте ночной краса
- Омар Хайям – Будь все добро мое кирпич один, в кружало
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
