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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше. Теперь
- In The Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
- The Cooling Tower poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Slumber-Song by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Hawthorn Tree by Willa Cather
- “`Covet who will the patronage of Kings ” poem – Alfred Austin
- Woman With Parasol by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Михаил Ломоносов – Лишь только дневной шум замолк
- Creativity in America and How Italians Can Learn From American Ingenuity
- Алексей Жемчужников – Себе
- Алексей Плещеев – Тобой лишь ясны дни мои
- Alameda by Paul Blackburn
- word of God by Raj Arumugam
- Song—Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
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 I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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
