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
- Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo by Robert Burns
- Envoi poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Невидимка
- Sonnet LIV by William Shakespeare
- Аля Кудряшева – Такие слишком медовые эти луны
- Gathering Leaves by Robert Frost
- Stir in Stillness by Shruti Talnikar
- Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
- Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key by William Shakespeare
- Foreign Missions in Battle Array by Vachel Lindsay
- Валерий Брюсов – Петербург (Здесь снов не ваял Сансовино)
- Юрий Верховский – Месяцу, заре, звезде, лазури
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот по борьбе с голодом отчет (Главполитпросвет №320)
- Владимир Маяковский – Увеличивается ли питание Москвы… (Главполитпросвет №234)
- Handy Man by Shel Silverstein
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
