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:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Над синим мраком ночи длинной
- Ghazal to Pera Belle by Serkan Engin
- Николай Тихонов – Когда уйду
- Robin Hood poem – John Keats poems
- Storm and Sunlight by Siegfried Sassoon
- Compromising my ego by Tanisha Avarsekar
- The Phases Of The Moon by William Butler Yeats
- Sound And Sense poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Маяковский – Не пей сырой воды! (Главполитпросвет №230)
- Олег Григорьев – Футбол
- But I Was Looking At The Permanent Stars by Wilfred Owen
- All Hail To The Czar! poem – Alfred Austin
- Алишер Навои – Чаша, солнце отражая
- Disabled by Wilfred Owen
- Love and Wine by William Wycherley
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
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
- The Tree Of Knowledge
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