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:
- 1914 III: The Dead by Rupert Brooke
- Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare
- They Did Not Expect This by Vernon Scannell
- Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now by William Shakespeare
- Changing Of The Seasons by Shel Silverstein
- Epigram at Brownhill Inn by Robert Burns
- Олег Бундур – Зимнее утро
- Tithonus
- Олег Бундур – В огороде
- Robert Burns: Address To The Deil:
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствует III интернационал! (РОСТА № 140)
- Юлия Друнина – Я горожанка
- Вера Павлова – Объятье
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXVII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Владимир Британишский – Дым отечества
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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
