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:
- At Carnoy by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Room The Light and Golden Dust by Vishnu J Mohan
- Камышева Ю. – На далёком полюсе, где метёт пурга
- Second Epistle to Davie by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open by William Shakespeare
- Ballad of the Goodly Fere poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Shut Not Your Doors, &c. by Walt Whitman
- The Unsound Utterance by Raju Baruah
- Иван Варавва – В закубанском лесу
- Hymn Before Action by Rudyard Kipling
- Nell Barnes by William Henry Davies
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Олег Бундур – Август
- Николай Гумилев – О, если я весь мир постиг
- Robert Burns: Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham:
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
