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:
- To Joanna by William Wordsworth
- And In Wonder And Amazement I Sing by Rabindranath Tagore
- Chi È? poem – Alfred Austin
- Untitled XIX by Yunus Emre
- Her Anxiety by William Butler Yeats
- By Philemon by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Права кооперации расширены декретом… (Главполитпросвет №154)
- The Waist of Time by The Waist of Time
- Spirit That Form’d This Scene. by Walt Whitman
- Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Вера Павлова – Снег
- The Flowers poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Гавриил Державин – Послание Мурзы Багрима к царевне Доброславе
- Владимир Вишневский – Долго же мы друг друга откладывали
- Николай Языков – Элегии (Скажи: когда)
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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
