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 – В нашем вновь обретенном ленинградском доме
- In The Name of Eternal Love by Walter William Safar
- Владимир Корнилов – Иннокентий Анненский
- Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Revelation poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Christopher Okigbo – Looking Back at His Short-lived Life and Taking Stock of His Poetic Legacy
- Secrets of Academic Success: Passion
- Not Heat Flames up and Consumes. by Walt Whitman
- Гавриил Державин – К Анжелике Кауфман
- cascades of emptiness by Steve Troyanovich
- Farmers Market by Mary TallMountain
- Epigram Addressed to an Artist by Robert Burns
- Николай Заболоцкий – Я не ищу гармонии в природе
- Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil: A Story From Boccaccio poem – John Keats poems
- Михаил Кузмин – Я знаю вас не понаслышке
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
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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
