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:
- An Abandoned Factory, Detroit by Philip Levine
- Степан Щипачев – Лил дождь осенний
- Memory Of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh
- Василий Жуковский – Голос с того света
- An Epitaph 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- june_sick_room.html
- GESTURES by Satish Verma
- Not Speaking Of The Way poem – Yosano Akiko poems | Poetry Monster
- The Carpenter’s Son by Sara Teasdale
- Winter Landscape poem – John Betjeman poems
- Thee, God, I Come from poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Степанов – Подберёзовик и подосиновик
- A Night In June poem – Alfred Austin
- Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
- Владимир Корнилов – Достается, наверно, непросто
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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
