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:
- My mother was telling me by Vinko Kalinic
- Ольга Берггольц – Второй разговор с соседкой
- Вера Звягинцева – Другу-переводчику
- My Friend, Come In These Rains — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- An Appearance by Sylvia Plath
- To Beatrice Stuart–Wortley Ætat poem – Alfred Austin
- By The Fates poem – Alfred Austin
- The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Болезнь
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрь 1917–1926
- Hart-Leap Well by William Wordsworth
- My Heart’s In The Highlands by Robert Burns
- Bound Home to Mount Song by Wang Wei
- English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 2. Исаак Уоттс.
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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
