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POEM STARTER
Inspired by Daniel HJ
If Only...
Write a poem which starts or ends with "If only".
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If only feelings were colors bright,
Joy would be gold, shining in light.
Sadness a blue, deep and profound,
Anger a red, loud and unbound.
Hope could be green, fresh as a spring,
Fear a gray shadow, quietly lingering.
Love would be violet, warm and divine,
While laughter would be a playful design.
If only our feelings could paint the thin air,
We’d be free and honest, devoted and fair,
A canvas...
If only…
Always if only
If only I did this
If only I did that
It is what it is
So what if you sat
So what if you tried hard to win
What really matters isn’t a pin
If you regret the past
You won’t move on fast
You’ll be stuck there forever
Yet you can’t change it, never
So move along the trail
And you will prevail
If only you remembered this long ago
But you still need to move along and let it go...
“If only”
Those are two dangerous words, they almost have a sense of desperation around them. Wishing for things to be different, not happy with how it is right now. Uncontentment is a different feeling around those two words. The desire that things would have taken a different term. I think there is nothing wrong with wanting to improve things, but it’s also important to accept where you are righ...
If only I’d had the courage,
The courage to stand by you,
I knew you were suffering,
And yet I did nothing.
Stayed silent, afraid,
I saw your mind drift off—
into the never after,
I caused you pain,
Not with harsh words or actions,
But with the emptiness I left in their place.
A piece of me died that day.
If only I’d been brave enough—
Maybe you’d still be here....
if only I could do something
really do something
to help you
I’m sorry
I feel bad
but the best I can do is telling you
not to give up
keep on trying
I can only give you words of encouragement
the rest is up to you
I wish there’s was more I could do
if only I wasn’t so helpless
if only I could make things happen
if only I could do something to help you
I love you man
I hope you can do this
I know ...
if only I had someone, if someone was mine
if only I could talk to them about anything, anytime
maybe I wouldn’t be here, writing these rhymes
what else can I do
when the only two people I can vent to
have problems of their own, too?
ugh I just need a man
but it’s not like I can
just go on over, tell him, “hey you, come and hold my hand”
“hold me in your arms until I stop crying”
“make me smile...
If only the world was gone
All traces of its sin erased
Removed from the brink of the world
What was the point of creating us?
We disgusting humans?
To watch us kill, to watch us love with ill intent?
I don’t understand
——
I hear a heart beating
People cheering
The mother sighing with joy
But whenever a baby is born
A baby dies
And soon that live baby will die too
So what’s the point of thi...
If only I were thinner.
Maybe i'd be able to step on a scale without the numbers making me nauseous.
If only I could fall in love.
Maybe I'd be able to find someone who will hold me the way I desperately need.
If only I wrote happy poetry.
Maybe people would like my writing more if it wasn't so depressing and deprecating.
If only I knew who I was.
Maybe I wouldn't be a chameleon changing to...
If only you
Were with me
If only I could
See you smile
If only I was able
To hear your laugh
If only I could
Feel your touch
If only I could feel your
Body heat once more
If only you
Weren’t gone
If only you were
Still here
If only you were
A call away
If only I could
See your eyes
If only I could spend
My days with you again
If only I have the strength to
Remind myself that yo...
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