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:
- Шекспир – Ты положи с моей любовью рядом – Сонет 117
- Sonnet 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend by William Shakespeare
- How To Paint A Water Lily by Ted Hughes
- In the spring twilight by Sappho
- Desmond’s Song by Thomas Moore
- Khabaram raseed imshab poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Cozy Little Room by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Robert Burns: Crowdie Ever Mair:
- The Starling poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Raindrops by Michael Mulcahy
- Song—The Fall of the Leaf by Robert Burns
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
- Lover’s Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones And Crags, by William Wordsworth
- Home Is So Sad by Philip Larkin
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
- the-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.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
