\"Writing.Com
*Magnify*
SPONSORED LINKS
Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1591993-If-I-Could
Item Icon
Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #1591993
A Diatelle for a poetry contest
If I Could


Why?
I would,
If I could,
Turn back the hour.
With keys I somehow should
Remember, if I had the power
To return the springtime to her flower;
Listen as the whippoorwill sold my lover's sigh
Or heard the leaves in an evening shower
Dripping on her ivy bower.
If I had understood
The fleeting hour.
If I could,
I would
Try.

© Copyright 2009 percy goodfellow (trebor at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Writing.Com, its affiliates and syndicates have been granted non-exclusive rights to display this work.
Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1591993-If-I-Could