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:
- The Winds Out of the West Land Blow poem – A. E. Housman
- The Storm by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Robert Burns: Mark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion:
- Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns
- Job Interview by William Matthews
- Гавриил Державин – Задумчивость
- Coming To This by Mark Strand
- Scorn Not The Sonnet by William Wordsworth
- Нина Гаген-Торн – На свете есть много мук
- Федор Сологуб – Слепой судьбе противореча
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Вульфу (Нe называй меня поэтом)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Кудри
- The Rape of the Lock poem – Alexander Pope
- Как живёшь ветеран милиции
- Юнна Мориц – В цирке
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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
