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 Talking Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Федор Сологуб – В лес пришла пастушка
- How To Paint A Water Lily by Ted Hughes
- Its gonna be sunday by Shailendra Singh
- Miracles. by Walt Whitman
- The Song of the Garden-Toad by Vachel Lindsay
- The New Decalogue poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Такахама Кёси – Как ярко сияет
- Наум Коржавин – Меня, как видно, Бог не звал
- Two Lacquer Prints poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Come down, O Maid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Странные скачки
- Ten Years After by Graham Rowlands
- Maktoob
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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
