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
- Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
- Анатолий Жигулин – Москва
- Breather by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Владимир Маяковский – Наши поправки в англо-советский договор (Красный перец)
- Олег Григорьев – Благо
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Кудри
- from The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о конькобежце на короткие дистанции, которого заставили бежать на длинную
- To A Young Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leading To Ardres, August 7, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Иннокентий Анненский – Гораций
- The Unchanging by Sara Teasdale
- Lines Written In The Highlands After A Visit To Burns’s Country poem – John Keats poems
- Confessions of a Software Engineer by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
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).
