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:
- A Killing by Satish Verma
- Crowned poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Rich or Poor by William Henry Davies
- The Music Of The Rains – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- O aye my wife she dang me (Song) by Robert Burns
- Омар Хайям – О, кумир, Дружбу ты почему прервала
- Doomes-Day: The First Houre by William Alexander
- Владимир Маяковский – Тексты “окон”, переработанные для сборника “Грозный смех”
- Encounter In The Chestnut Avenue by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Владимир Коркин – Август дозреет яблоком
- Portrait of a Baby by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Before the white chrysanthemum by Yosa Buson
- Monadnock in Early Spring poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Notes for Canto CXX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- An Untold Love by Rixa White
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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
