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:
- Алишер Навои – О, мне бы крылья
- Омар Хайям – Небо кушак, что облек изнуренный мой стан
- Vaishnavi Prakash – Vaishnavi Prakash
- Владимир Маяковский – Только организация урожай умножит… (Главполитпросвет №33)
- A Letter to a Live Poet by Rupert Brooke
- Not Fear by Rafael Guillen
- A Little Te Deum Of The Commonplace by John Oxenham
- Владимир Британишский – На конференции молодых геофизиков
- Галина Гампер – Я вгоняла содержанье
- Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- Sonnet CXIX by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Был бы я благочестьем прославиться рад
- Sidelined by Satish Verma
- Владимир Корнилов – Собака подлеца
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
- the-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.html
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
