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Best Innocence Poems

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The Last Good Days of Innocence
A rose held before the dawn, overwhelmed by benevolent beauty,
its virginity violated by hostel hands,
only then will it reveal its blood-stained thorns,
where infatuated innocence is...

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Categories: innocence, lost, sorrow,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Instincts of Innocence
I reflect upon a word -
   Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times...

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Categories: innocence, religion,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: innocence, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Lips Forever Joined
Kiss me passionately
Kiss with untetherd lips
Lips that are ripe
Lips that long to know everything
Everything waits for it's time
Everything has possibilities
Possibilities beyond limitations
Possibilities are laying in...

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Categories: first love, happiness, innocence,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member Autumnal
I remember clinging on to the naked branch,
which had been my home since the season of birth.
In my days of botanical glory,
flourishing and nourishing in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, autumn, innocence, perspective,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Silent Inflictions
Childhood is a ship,
preparing to set sail,
but not all harbors are kind

the ocean a mysterious enigma.

Not all inflictions are visible,
some bruises remain invisible.
Not all trauma...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, childhood, emotions, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Little Giants
The child is a poet with innocent eyes
		And a bumpity A-B-C rhyme,
		A dancer whose feet with the rhythm of life
		Move in jubilant one-two-three time.

		The child...

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Categories: children, happiness, innocence,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Cora's Clothesline
What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching...

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Categories: desire, heart, innocence, june,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Broken Doll
Walls of silence hold,
 Me prisoner,
The child held within,
 Cries out for release.
Relative solitude comforts, 
Not the tortured soul,
Inward coiling withdrawing,
 Deep inside. 
Shedding its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: innocence, abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet 28 'I Think I Know the Name of Purity'
I think I know the Name of Purity,
It is Your Name -- it holds clear water well!
A Chalice carved almost to shattering,
A white rose, that...

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Categories: for her, innocence, integrity,
Form: Sonnet
Hope
You see hope when two kids share marbles between a volatile border.


Date: 16/06/2017...

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Categories: innocence, children, conflict, future, humanity,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Agony and Ecstasy
Cascading waves wash ashore
tickling our toes as they ebb and flow;
and moonbeams set a thousand jewels sparkling
on the shoal.

Smiles summon sweet emotions
as we stroll upon...

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Categories: innocence, beach, beautiful, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guess Who
~It's a Beautiful Day~

Under every star, 
A smile waltz-like no other
Once a simple cherry blossom girl, 
enjoying puppets and lullabies.
Sitting in front of the screen
Anxiously...

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Categories: innocence, appreciation, celebrity, child, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Una and the Lion
This world of trouble soon will pass
For there beyond the crystal glass
A lamb and lion tread the grass
Beside a lass, beside a lass

This cord of...

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Categories: animal, girl, happiness, innocence,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Because
I was a fool.

I was a fool searching for reasons why.

Reasons why I
Grin with sudden boy giggles

As if Karma was my DJ,
Playing cotton candy woven...

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Categories: dream, innocence, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things