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:
- Life Brings Me to this Journey. by Stephen Sweitzer
- Life a chess game by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- The Sacred Tree
- Наум Коржавин – Наверно, я не так на свете жил
- The Nympholept
- The Higher Pantheism poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Fragment Of An Ode To Maia. Written On May Day 1818 poem – John Keats poems
- I’m Out O’ Door by William Barnes
- Гавриил Державин – Покаяние
- States! by Walt Whitman
- Doomes-Day: The Third Houre by William Alexander
- Омар Хайям – Есть много вер, и все несхожи
- Николай Языков – Я. П. Полонскому (Благодарю тебя за твой подарок милой…)
- Ballades IV – Of Life poem – Andrew Lang 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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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
