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 Британишский – Ты шепчешь мне
- Владимир Луговской – Конек-горбунок
- Epistle to John Maxwell, Esq., of Terraughty by Robert Burns
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Чудом тени
- Нинель Эпатова – Настя с мамою в лесочке
- I Cast My Net Into The Sea by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Мне были дороги мгновенья
- Celebrate Spring Today poem with a translation – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Григорьев – Секрет
- Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
- Юнна Мориц – Разноцветные котята
- The Princess In The Tower by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьский марш
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- The Melancholy of Birth
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
