If Only
by Mary Etta Metcalf
dreams flow through my head of days past
when youth could do no wrong…life wadreams s good
the freedom felt…the acts performed…were they wrong
how different life would have been…if only i had known
actions perceived…ideas run rampant…mind speeding on
falling into the trap only life seemed to know about
continuing on as if nothing was wrong…nothing at all
how different life would have been…if only i had known
things omitted in childhood…youth in the dark
as life raced forward as a speeding train out of control
and i asked…is there no end…where is the light
how different life would have been…if only i had known
i tried to put the breaks on…it broke in my hands
i cried at the fear that rose within me
groping my way through life…crying…what is going on
how different life would have been…if only i had known
End of the poem
15 random poems
- A Boy by Sara Teasdale
- Алишер Навои – Двух резвых своих газелей, которые нежно спят
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, рабочий! Вот о чем сегодня речь (Главполитпросвет №166)
- Bagua by Rose Mry Boehm
- Black song about a black woman and red wine by Vinko Kalinić
- The Great War by Vernon Scannell
- Sonnet CXXXII by William Shakespeare
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона вторая
- Robert Burns: Prologue: Spoken by Mr. Woods on his benefit-night, Monday, 16th April, 1787
- Константин Бальмонт – Эльзи
- Владимир Лифшиц – Баллада о черством куске
- America by Walter William Safar
- Concerning Emperors by Vachel Lindsay
- Николай Гумилев – Избиение женихов
- Passing by Shaunna Harper
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
