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:
- See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
- Олег Григорьев – Схватили за ногу правую
- Towns in Colour poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Почему собаки дерутся
- ‘Out, Out–‘ by Robert Frost
- FLORECER by Manolo Arriola
- Christmas poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Drear-Nighted December poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Жид
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ткач
- Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- The India Wharf by Sara Teasdale
- Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
- State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish
- OFF-LIMITS by Satish Verma
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
