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:
- On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Some Clouds by Steve Kowit
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Геракл (перевод)
- Ruth A-Ridèn by William Barnes
- Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem by William Shakespeare
- A child said, What is the grass by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Корнилов – На колоннаде
- Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- There is a life-force within your soul by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Василий Курочкин – Как не вскрикнуть тут с поэтом
- Towns in Colour poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Огарев – Прощанье с краем, откуда не уезжал
- Ольга Берггольц – Воспоминание (И вот в лицо пахнуло земляникой)
- Владимир Британишский – В чащобах памяти кого не встретишь вдруг
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
- Dickinson And The Alabaster Gogyohka
- Dawned Again
- Create
- Conference Swan Beauty
- Colors And Sounds
- Children039s Eyes
- Audience With A Poet Written December 13 1976 For Robert E Hayden Ph D
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- Antediluvian Kural On Twitter
- Alexander
- Acts Of Love
- A Single Man
- A Poet039s Privilege
- A Poem
- A Dialogue
- A City One Wish
- A Choka Is A Littoral Drift
- Gazebo
- All Days Seem Same
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
