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 Force Of Prayer, Or, The Founding Of Bolton, A Tradition by William Wordsworth
- A Eulogy by Shaunna Harper
- Robert Burns: On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit : A wild scene among the Hills of Oughtertyre.
- Happy Teacher’s Day by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Олег Бундур – Ранним утром
- Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Степанов – В лесу осиновом
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- Robert Burns: Epigram Addressed To An Artist:
- Crazy Jane On The Mountain by William Butler Yeats
- Федор Сологуб – В норе темно и мглисто
- Владимир Костров – 1380 год
- Song—Stay my Charmer by Robert Burns
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Haunted. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- A Story At Dusk
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
