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:
- To Charles Cowden Clarke poem – John Keats poems
- The Complaint Of A Forsaken Indian Woman by William Wordsworth
- With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
- Низами Гянджеви – О кипарис с плавной поступью мри
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come. by Walt Whitman
- For a’ that and a’ that by Robert Burns
- Николай Карамзин – К соловью
- Lallji My Desire
- Criss-Cross Acrostic*: Ai My Eye ! by T. Wignesan
- Владимир Британишский – О чем размышляют
- Василий Тредиаковский – Будь жестока, будь упорна
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Тополь
- If by Rudyard Kipling
- On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- The First Part: Sonnet 10 – Fair Moon, who with thy cold and silver shine by William Drummond
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
