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:
- Федор Сваровский – Небесный гость в четыре лепестка
- Farewell To Italy poem – Alfred Austin
- Аля Кудряшева – Поперек
- Prison Souvenirs, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Prière by T. Wignesan.
- On Being Challenged to Write an Epigram in the Manner of Herrick by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- After Parting by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищи, близятся ужасы зимы… (РОСТА №270)
- Алексей Ржевский – Как я стал знать взор твой
- The Wound by Robert McNamara
- Against Hope
- Кондратий Рылеев – Мне тошно здесь, как на чужбине
- Days by Philip Larkin
- Far Within Us #1 by Vasko Popa
- Forest by Walter William Safar
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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
