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:
- Two Songs From A Play by William Butler Yeats
- Shut Not Your Doors, &c. by Walt Whitman
- divided_passion.html
- Marsh Hymns by Sidney Lanier
- If You Ask Me by Miraj Patel
- ‘Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love by William Wordsworth
- Covenent by Rudyard Kipling
- Leda And The Swan by William Butler Yeats
- With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses by Vachel Lindsay
- Banishment by Siegfried Sassoon
- Crowdie ever mair (Song) by Robert Burns
- dance of life by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Маяковский – С винтовкой, но без знания – нет побед (РОСТА № 115)
- Николай Карамзин – Луизе в день ее рождения 13 генваря, при вручении ей подарка
- Sixteen Dead Men by William Butler Yeats
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
- Malaria
- Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars
- Love Lightly
- Lost Delight
- Listen Beloved
- Lines By Taj Mahomed
- Less Than The Dust
- Lallji My Desire
- Lalila To The Ferengi Lover
- Kotri By The River
- Khristna And His Flute
- Khan Zadas Song On The Hillside
- Kashmiri Song
- Kashmiri Song By Juma
- In The Early Pearly Morning
- Illusion
- I Shall Forget
- I Arise And Go Down To The River
- Hira Singhs Farewell To Burmah
- Golden Eyes
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