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:
- Transcended Land Of Love by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Николай Гумилев – Неизгладимы, нет, в моей судьбе
- Владимир Набоков – Поэт
- The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
- O Tell Me The Truth About Love by W H Auden
- Олег Бундур – Лагуна
- Fragment. Where’s The Poet? poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet II. To ****** poem – John Keats poems
- Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View by Raj Arumugam
- Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars
- Robert Burns: On Commissary Goldie’s Brains:
- A Song of the White Men by Rudyard Kipling
- A Ballad of Our Lady (Ave Maria, gracia plena)
- The Loving Game by Vernon Scannell
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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
