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:
- Hey! Mr.Pothole by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Mr. Brain by Russell Edson
- Илья Зданевич – Ослиный Бох
- Владимир Маяковский – Гимн взятке
- One Great Christmas Verse, Three Incomparable Gifts
- Николай Гумилев – Злобный гений, царь сомнений
- Recessional (A Victorian Ode) by Rudyard Kipling
- Last Curtain by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о штангисте
- Haiku: March by Monty Gilmer
- Ballade Of True Wisdom poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Mystic As Soldier by Siegfried Sassoon
- Compromising my ego by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse by William Cowper
- A Light Woman by Robert Browning
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
