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:
- Олег Чупров – На предназначенной орбите
- CROSSING THE DEAF by Satish Verma
- To Clementina Black poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Гумилев – Злобный гений, царь сомнений
- Вероника Тушнова – Я поднимаюсь по колючим склонам
- Robert Burns: A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge:
- Алексей Плещеев – Бабушка и внучек
- Say, What Is Honour?–‘Tis The Finest Sense by William Wordsworth
- Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
- Upper Lambourne poem – John Betjeman poems
- Anguish of Fate by Pierre Reverdy
- The First Part: Sonnet 3 – Ye who so curiously do paint your thoughts, by William Drummond
- An Autumn Reverie by William Topaz McGonagall
- An April Fool poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Григорьев – А меня уж везли зарывать
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
