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:
- O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet LXV by William Shakespeare
- The Everlasting Monday by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Был бы я благочестьем прославиться рад
- Николай Глазков – Давно хотел сложить стихи
- Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day by William Shakespeare
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Буржуазия и пролетариат стали врагами друг против друга… (Главполитпросвет №19)
- Blue flower by Tanisha Avarsekar
- The Gardener XXI: Why Did He Choose by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Седакова – С нежностью и глубиной
- Esteem for Chloris by Robert Burns
- The Superannuated Lover by William Somervile
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- Robert Burns: Lines To Mr. John Kennedy:
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 Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton
- Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole
- Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
- Timothy Thomas Fortune – Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
- On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton
- Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton
- My Precious Girl by Tiffany Ann Monroe
- My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
- Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
- Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
- Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
- Lucky by Thomas Lux
- Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Love of the heart by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
- Just A Dance by Tiffany M
- Thomas Lux – Thomas Lux
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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