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:
- Year that Trembled. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – И в Дубне, и на Таганке что-то ставят, что-то строят
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Троянки (перевод)
- Vo’k A-Comèn Into Church by William Barnes
- Cotton and Corn by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Британишский – Далекая скрипка
- Westward on the High-Hilled Plains poem – A. E. Housman
- Nigra Sum poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Notre-Dame
- Lines on Fergusson, the Poet by Robert Burns
- Death’s Echo by W H Auden
- Life a battlefield by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Владимир Маяковский – Чем отличается Красная Армия от царской?.. (РОСТА №559)
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Destiny poem – Zubair Ahmad Parray poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Lovesong by Ted Hughes
- Lineage by Ted Hughes
- How To Paint A Water Lily by Ted Hughes
- Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
- God’s Grandeur by Ted Hughes
- Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes
- Examination at the Womb-Door by Ted Hughes
- Earth-Moon by Ted Hughes
- Crow’s Nerve Fails by Ted Hughes
- Crow’s Fall by Ted Hughes
- Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days by Ted Hughes
- A Woman Unconscious by Ted Hughes
- Weak by Tanisha Avarsekar
- The battle of fire by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Taketh away by Tanisha Avarsekar
- So tired by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Silent consolation by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Life a chess game by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Life a battlefield by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Late realizations by Tanisha Avarsekar
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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