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:
- A London Plane-Tree poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Mi ha el by Vinko Kalinić
- The Secret Garden by Rita Dove
- God’s Work Ethics
- Poema II, “Pañuelos de La Alhambra” by Mara Romero Torres
- Hound Voice by William Butler Yeats
- On the Death of a Young Gentleman by Phillis Wheatley
- An Untold Tale by Shahida Latif
- Robert Burns: On Andrew Turner:
- Яков Полонский – Цветок
- Robert Burns: Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham:
- Intrigued with Evening by Jelaluddin Rumi
- How We Heard The Name
- When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29) by William Shakespeare
- Кондратий Рылеев – Как солнце ни блестит и как оно ни светит
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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
