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
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Splenda by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- The Paper Windmill poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Flying Home by Sudeep Sen
- The Weather-Beaten Tree by William Barnes
- The First Part: Sonnet 10 – Fair Moon, who with thy cold and silver shine by William Drummond
- The Vaudois by William Wordsworth
- Insolent Storm Strikes At The Skull by Sylvia Plath
- Константин Бальмонт – Мудрецы говорят
- In a Spring Grove by William Allingham
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Фронту помог ты… (РОСТА №444)
- Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
- Not Fear by Rafael Guillen
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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
