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:
- Epitaph for Maria Wentworth by Thomas Carew
- Аля Кудряшева – Мне снился
- A Great Time by William Henry Davies
- Виталий Кодрян – 31 августа
- Яков Полонский – Ночь на восточном берегу Черного моря
- Омар Хайям – Есть много вер, и все несхожи
- Ольга Седакова – Играющий ребенок
- “If I Must Go” by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Языков – П. Н. Шепелеву (Ты мой приятель задушевной)
- Barmaid by William Ernest Henley
- Interior Design Institutes in Dehradun
- Шекспир – Люблю твои глаза – Сонет 132
- The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland by William Butler Yeats
- Elegy I. To Charles Deodati (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Motionless Body
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
