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:
- Landscape by Paul Celan
- Федор Сваровский – Слава стране моей
- Syrinx poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Orlando Furioso Canto 14 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Otho The Great – Act II poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride? by William Shakespeare
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand. by Walt Whitman
- Sealed Appropriate
- November by Thomas Hood
- La Figlia che Piange by T. S. Eliot
- A Dialogue At Fiesole poem – Alfred Austin
- Reading Runes by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- A Twilight Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Address to Edinburgh by Robert Burns
- Paradise Lost: Book 06 poem – John Milton poems
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 Exeter Road poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The End poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Cyclists poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Cross-Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Crescent Moon poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Coal Picker poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Coal Picker poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Captured Goddess poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Bungler poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Boston Athenaeum poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Bombardment poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Blue Scarf poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Basket poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Allies poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Allies poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sword Blades and Poppy Seed poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
