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:
- After Long Silence by William Butler Yeats
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка лягушонка Джимми и ящерки Билли
- Thanksgiving by Mac Hammond
- Жан де Лафонтен – Третейский Судья, Брат милосердия и Пустынник
- Николай Гумилев – Он воздвигнул свой храм на горе
- A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux
- Morning Poem #6 by Wanda Phipps
- Владимир Маяковский – Новый враг
- Алексей Жемчужников – Возрождение
- Listening To Rwanda Genocide by Satish Verma
- To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
- The Lover’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Британишский – Багульник, ельник, изволоки, взгорья
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
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
