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:
- When I Watch the Living Meet poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Федор Сологуб – Выйди в поле полночное
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Только на фронте
- Robert Burns: To Dr. Maxwell: On Miss Jessy Staig’s recovery.
- Ce N’est Jamais Le Même Jardin by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper
- Олег Бундур – Папа и родительское собрание
- The Little Worold by William Barnes
- Bereavement by William Lisle Bowles
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 poem – Alexander Pope
- Prelude by Rudyard Kipling
- Continual Conversation With A Silent Man by Wallace Stevens
- Base Words Are Uttered by W H Auden
- What a Glow Everywhere I see – Aaj Rung Hai poem – with a translation Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
