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:
- When I Go Alone At Night by Rabindranath Tagore
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Caledonia: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- For A Coming Extinction by W. S. Merwin
- Иван Варавва – Мать Кубань
- A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson
- On the Grasshopper (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame by William Shakespeare
- November 1968
- Calypso by W H Auden
- Piety poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sport
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- Омар Хайям – Не оплакивай, смертный, вчерашних потерь
- The Methodist by Thomas Chatterton
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
- Sweetheart by M. T. Metutera
- Sweet Fire by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Summer by Luther Seahand
- Sonnet # 9 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 8 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 7 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 6 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 4 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 21 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 2 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 19 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 18 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 17 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 15 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 14 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 13 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 12 by Luis A. Estale
- Sonnet # 11 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 10 by Luis A. Estable
- So Soon Done! by Luis Estable
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
