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:
- Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power by William Shakespeare
- Boo to Buddha poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
- Омар Хайям – Нищим дервишем ставши
- Defamation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Корнилов – Зачем
- Николай Заболоцкий – Слепой
- I was born with a cry by Nur Al-Alam
- Dedication To Lady Windsor poem – Alfred Austin
- Earth’s Answer by William Blake
- lines_and_squares.html
- I hear it was Charged against Me. by Walt Whitman
- Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
- The Waist of Time by The Waist of Time
- Robert Burns: On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico:
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
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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
