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:
- The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling
- The Dreams Of My Heart by Sara Teasdale
- Константин Бальмонт – Нам нравятся поэты
- The Final Poem poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Don’t fear death poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Константин Батюшков – На книгу под названием «Смесь»
- First Poem by Peter Orlovsky
- Нина Воронель – Поэты военных лет
- The Peacock by William Butler Yeats
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Гербель – Введение к поэме
- White in the Moon the Long Road Lies poem – A. E. Housman
- The Tree of Scarlet Berries poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Upper Lambourne poem – John Betjeman poems
- Scenes Of The Mind poem – Aldous Huxley poems | 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
- 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:
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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
