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:
- Владимир Степанов – Рассказ оружейника
- City of My Childhood
- Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Омар Хайям – Этот мастер всевышний
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грусть моя, тоска моя
- In The Hills Of Shiloh by Shel Silverstein
- Music by Walter de la Mare
- Владимир Степанов – Мишка (Буква М)
- Ольга Высотская – Звёздочки
- The Sparrow’s Nest by William Wordsworth
- Second Poem by Peter Orlovsky
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field. by Walt Whitman
- Sleep of the Body the Soul’s Awakening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Альфред Теннисон – Нищая и король
- Алексей Плещеев – Как солнце блещет ярко
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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
