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:
- Epigramma in Duos montes Amosclivum Et Bilboreum poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Fake Identity by Roberto Cocina
- Олег Бундур – Дрова
- Belly Good by Marge Piercy
- Sonnet 06 poem – John Milton poems
- Darkness poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Minnie and Winnie poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Hey birds by Raj Arumugam
- Олег Бундур – Железное здоровье
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Ballad First
- Totem by Sylvia Plath
- My mother was telling me by Vinko Kalinic
- O Tell Me The Truth About Love by W H Auden
- Another on the said Occasion by Robert Burns
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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
