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:
- A Girl Was Singing In A Church Choir poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Федор Сологуб – В этот час
- If I could tell you by W. H. Auden
- Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Song—Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive by Robert Burns
- The Child an’ the Mowers by William Barnes
- Far Within Us #2 by Vasko Popa
- The Sympathies of the Long Married by Robert Bly
- Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint poem – John Milton poems
- Михаил Кузмин – Трое (Нас было трое)
- Untitled XXIII by Yunus Emre
- The Journey by Yvor Winters
- Владимир Высоцкий – Странные скачки
- Some Clouds by Steve Kowit
- Early summer rain by Yosa Buson
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
