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:
- Don’t Need Anything by Pat Mullan
- My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
- Must Work by Steve Downes
- IX: Some Verses: This Day Design’d To Spoil The World of Peace by William Alexander
- Gethsemane by Rudyard Kipling
- Amnesiac by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth by William Shakespeare
- The Roussalka poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox by Robert Burns
- The Cyclists poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- walking with a staff by Raj Arumugam
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Заяц-врун
- Олег Григорьев – Жена торговала колбасой
- Ode to Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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
