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 – Тексты “окон”, переработанные для сборника “Грозный смех”
- Алексей Жемчужников – Себе
- Владимир Маяковский – Долой мешечников (РОСТА №525)
- Джон Китс – Дуралейная песня
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- The Hawk by William Butler Yeats
- A November Note poem – Alfred Austin
- Singer in the Prison, The. by Walt Whitman
- Away, Melancholy by Stevie Smith
- I Heard You, Solemn-sweet Pipes of the Organ. by Walt Whitman
- Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree by P. K. Page
- Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair by William Shakespeare
- The Cyclists poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, онанисты, кричите «Ура!»
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
