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:
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- The Twa Sisters poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux poem – A. E. Housman
- I a soul by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Maya by Rabindranath Tagore
- Michael: A Pastoral Poem by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
- Такахама Кёси – Как ярко сияет
- The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
- Robert Burns: Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me:
- Зинаида Александрова – Мы оделись раньше всех
- The Beggars by Sylvia Plath
- Sin poem – Yao Ying poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Высоцкий – Набат
- Маяковский – Послушайте: Стих Владимира Маяковского – Читать текст стихотворения на Poetry Monster
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
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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
