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 Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand
- Стефан Малларме – В идоложертвенном ликующем костре
- Wind in the Beechwood by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Paumanok Picture. by Walt Whitman
- My Winter Rose poem – Alfred Austin
- A Girl’s Garden by Robert Frost
- Юнна Мориц – Зейдер-Зее
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Есть много всяких мук – и много я их знаю)
- Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair by Robert Burns
- The Wish to be Generous by Wendell Berry
- And the days are not full enough poem – Ezra Pound poems
- new_land.html
- Владимир Маяковский – Частушки (Милкой мне в подарок бурка…)
- Sonnet: On seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep at a tale of distress by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: The Last Time I Came O’er The Moor:
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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
