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:
- Василий Курочкин – Мы всё смешное косим, косим
- They Did Not Expect This by Vernon Scannell
- Ballade Of Autumn poem – Andrew Lang poems
- X: Some Verses: To His Most Affectionate Friend Mr. Lithgow by William Alexander
- Further Instructions poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Haunted by you by Melissa Skelton
- Ce N’est Jamais Le Même Jardin by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Спиридон Дрожжин – В деревне
- Year’s End by Marilyn Hacker
- Ольга Берггольц – Старая гвардия
- Алишер Навои – Нет, не от слез кровавых одежда моя красней
- Statistic by Shivam Pandya
- My Garden by Sappho
- Outsong in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.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
