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
- Everymaid by John Oxenham
- Only Iraq by Mahmoud Darwish
- Омар Хайям – О доколе ты по свету будешь кружить
- Аля Кудряшева – Ходят катера по Малой Невке
- Омар Хайям – Будь мягче к людям
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In Imitation of Spenser : The Alley poem – Alexander Pope
- Girl Child – An Alternate Reality by Rekha Seshadri
- Cold Eyes by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Heel & Toe To The End by William Carlos Williams
- Snow Flakes by Tala Bar
- The Burial Of Moliere poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Room The Light and Golden Dust by Vishnu J Mohan
- Banishment by Siegfried Sassoon
- Hey! Mr.Pothole by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
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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).
