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:
- Robert Burns: Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland: On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries.
- Robert Burns: Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill:
- Низами Гянджеви – Будь весел — короток наш век
- Robert Burns: On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of Mossknowe:
- Низами Гянджеви – В привычке сердца воровать ты
- On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper
- Ghouls’ Parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Бундур – Первый пирог
- Thee, God, I Come from poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Song—A Health to ane I loe dear by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Декрет о натуральном налоге на хлеб, картофель и масличные семена
- Not the Pilot. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: A Mother’s Lament For the Death of Her Son.:
- Владимир Британишский – Дороги
- Child by Sylvia Plath
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
- Consider This And In Our Time by W H Auden
- The Common Life by W H Auden
- Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W H Auden
- Christmas Oratio by W H Auden
- Carry Her Over the Water by W H Auden
- Canzone by W H Auden
- Calypso by W H Auden
- Base Words Are Uttered by W H Auden
- Autumn Song by W H Auden
- August 1968 by W H Auden
- Atlantis by W H Auden
- As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
- As We Like It by W H Auden
- As the poets have mournfully sung by W H Auden
- Are You There? by W H Auden
- After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden
- Academic Graffiti by W H Auden
- A Walk After Dark by W H Auden
- A New Year Greeting by W H Auden
- Continual Conversation With A Silent Man by Wallace Stevens
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