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:
- An Insolent Jew
- Song—Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
- Control by Sidney Lanier
- If I Got You by Miraj Patel
- The Gardener XXXIV: Do Not Go, My Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Epitaph for Robert Aiken by Robert Burns
- There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Молкнущий вечер во мгле
- Ah! Sun-Flower by William Blake
- Николай Языков – Воспоминание
- Busy Heart, The by Rupert Brooke
- Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep by Mary Frye
- Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
- The Wrath of Love by Shawn Ervin
- Степан Щипачев – День
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
