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:
- Lucky by Thomas Lux
- As if by Sara Herlihy
- From Menander by William Cowper
- It’s the Wrong Address by peggy boone
- Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin
- Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
- To… (Kern) poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Какое имя чудное Валерия
- Владимир Маяковский – Был без работы буржуям пир… (Главполитпросвет №24)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – О, не играй веселых песен мне
- What the Ghost of the Gambler Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы бдительны, мы тайн не разболтаем
- On the Beach at Night, Alone. by Walt Whitman
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- 3 Inspirational Quotes That Encourage You to Be Yourself
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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
