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:
- Николай Гумилев – Крест
- Владимир Высоцкий – У меня было сорок фамилий
- Thoughts On The Works Of Providence by Phillis Wheatley
- Федор Сологуб – Займитесь чтением в вагоне
- Шекспир – Чтобы стихи, рожденные когда-то – Сонет 38
- rice_pudding.html
- Compensation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- How to Become an Inspiration
- Ольга Берггольц – Разговор с соседкой
- Олег Чупров – Тают в сумраке лица
- Владимир Высоцкий – И душа, и голова, кажись, болит
- In The Forum poem – Alfred Austin
- Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham poem – Alexander Pope
- a deceving reflection by vanessa anderson
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
