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:
- Whenever I Go There by W. S. Merwin
- Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 8
- The Hunter by Shel Silverstein
- Meditatio poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищи, близятся ужасы зимы… (РОСТА №270)
- The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt by Shel Silverstein
- Шекспир – Дыханье мысли и огонь желанья – Сонет 45
- “Célibataire” by Sylvia Plath
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти Н.И. Кульбина
- I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone by Stephen Dunn
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Николай Карамзин – Пророчество на 1799 год, найденное в бумагах Нострадамуса
- In The Chapel Of Rest by Steve Sant
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
- Body Script by Satish Verma
- Blue Mountains by Satish Verma
- Blistering Attack by Satish Verma
- Blemishes by Satish Verma
- Battle For Madness by Satish Verma
- Bare Tongue by Satish Verma
- Backtracking by Satish Verma
- AWAY FROM HOME by Satish Verma
- Astigmatism by Satish Verma
- Armless Enemies by Satish Verma
- Animation by Satish Verma
- Ancient Sins by Satish Verma
- Anarchy by Satish Verma
- An Art by Satish Verma
- Afterimages by Satish Verma
- A Saint Between Us by Satish Verma
- A River Flows Underground by Satish Verma
- A Killing by Satish Verma
- A DARK HOUSE by Satish Verma
- A Civil War by Satish Verma
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
