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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё с себя снимаю, слишком душно
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Lines On Fergusson, The Poet :
- Robert Burns: Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver:
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- That Light by Paul Hostovsky
- The Proud Farmer by Vachel Lindsay
- Sit Smiling by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Долго же шёл ты, в конверте листок
- Олег Бундур – Сорока
- As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Пустяк у Оки
- Election Ballad for Westerha’ by Robert Burns
- On The Nature Of Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- What Peace Is Like
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
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
- The Old Maids Story
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