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:
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Lines on Curll poem – Alexander Pope
- To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy
- Kinetic Poem 2 by Roger McGough
- Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath love put in my head by William Shakespeare
- Как тяжело, когда идет война
- Robert Burns: Jockey’s Taen The Parting Kiss:
- Lover’s Gifts LXX: Take Back Your Coins by Rabindranath Tagore
- Федор Сологуб – В мантии серой
- Ballade of Dead Actors by William Ernest Henley
- Robert Burns: Farewell To Eliza:
- To Dr. MReading Mathmatics by William Somervile
- “Brook! Whose Society The Poet Seeks” by William Wordsworth
- Lets go by Vinko Kalinić
- Sonnet XV. On The Grasshopper And Cricket poem – John Keats poems
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
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
- Infelix
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