Best Innocents Poems


Premium Member Sweet Smile of Innocents

Sweet smile of innocents
                         Skin so soft, sweet smells of powder scents,
                                        Nothing can compare
                                        A little innocent babe 
                                           Root of ourselves
                                      A gift to us to be valued  

                                     Sweet smile of innocents
                                  Looks upon its loving parent
                                    To warm our gentle heart 
                                           In Its safe haven
                                          Of our loving arms
                               Life special moments to remember
                     Our heritage to be carried on in this innocent soul
                 So important to model our lives with love and not hate
Children learn the ethical values by watching the actions of adults they respect

By Eve Roper 11/9/2014
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.

Slaughter of the Innocents

Millipede eating baby cockroach
An innocent victim
I feel no sympathy

Premium Member Innocents

In a war-torn town
on a cold Christmas morn'
two children huddle close
trying to keep warm.
They have asked for no presents,
no toys of fun,
just for the gift of life
and the silence of the gun.
© Ken Duddle  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Innocents

Caught in a madman’s rage
Life distorted
Normal becomes abnormal
Sense becomes senseless
Logic disappears
Flowers appear
Springing from the bloody ground
Can they hallow the soil?
In this eternal struggle
Of good versus evil
Love versus hate
The decision is yours
Choose wisely among
The images you resurrect

Will you choose 
Flowers
Living symbols
A kaleidoscope
Of changing patterns
Varied hues of
Red, yellow, orange and purple
Delicate and wild
Single and in bouquets
Spreading as grief flows 
Like blocks in a quilt 
Standing at attention
Mirroring internal struggles
First fear, grief and anger 
Later, forgiveness

Will you choose
The glint of sunlight on steel
The thunder of bullets
Tearing flesh
Faces contorted 
Bodies crumpled, discarded
Left where they fall
As a fetus without a womb
Animal sounds emerge
Without a home to go to
Echoing through
The community, the nation, the world

Hate as strong 
As the gun’s metal,
Contains within its chambers
Limited volleys
Once expended
Its power dissipates

Love, as delicate 
As the flowers’ petals,
Conceals within its pods
Seeds
As infinitesimally small
As grains of sand
Stretching
Through space and time

Imagine 
Nature choosing for you
After hate’s missiles end
Love’s seed sows itself
Endlessly

Norway – July 2011
Third version September 2011
Fourth version Oct

KDK

Innocents, Bruised and Battered

Innocents bruised and battered.


A world where fear and confusion reign together
 
in sonic synchronicity

The vainglorious cast their shadows of doubt,
 
on seekers of truth and serenity

The heart of man never learns, 

only for greed and it´s lust for money it burns

Human compassion is silenced by profits,

tongues tied with fragile ropes

Innocents are shattered, scattered

bruised and battered

left without hope.

Hateful speech, fearmongering,

bombastic antics on display

Earth´s  future is on life support

can´t continue... 

breathing this way.

Who can stop them? 

Change the heart of man?

Change the world as we know it?

Only God can help us now,

we need to trust him...and to show it.

John Derek Hamilton
March 08,2016

Premium Member Blessing of Innocents

May there always be a God/dess for you
a Messiah with you
a Kalki in you
a Maitreya of you
a Twelfth Imam as you.

May there always be a living God/dess
who sees Our best communicating Self through your eyes,
who hears Their most beautiful song in your ears,
who smells Our most transporting fragrant presence
as outside/inside We/Me.

May you always breathe
and beat your heart
with and as,
in and for,
our divine Earth GaianGod;
some ReCreative CoBecoming with a higher 
and healthier
pay scale
than the Tooth Fairy,
or an Empty Trump UnLawSuit
against full-deck GaianAce through GodKing 
extended family values.


The Death of the Innocents

The Death of the Innocents

By Elton Camp

About politics or government I take no position
In this, yet another, “horrors of war” composition

My memories of the Second World War are few
My time was occupied with what little kids do

The reasons for rationing were regularly reported
That there was a foreign war that must be supported

The attack on Pearl Harbor I don’t remember at all
Or that President Roosevelt for war on Japan did call

That atomic bombs were dropped, I didn’t know
But learned of it in school much later, though

Playing and riding my tricycle was the thing to do 
A Hiroshima child my age was then doing it too

The Japanese child, I haven’t the slightest doubt
As with me, didn’t know what the war was about

I think, with horror, of that child’s searing pain
If he survived, lifelong scars were sure to remain

To praise war, some feel there are reasons to try
Let’s not forget about all the innocents who die


(Written after seeing a child's devastated tricycle on display in a Hiroshima museum)
© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Nine Eleven: Towers To Tears

Take me down to ground zero, brother,
I need to see the truth -
where dark angles from hell
put evil in place,
and three thousand innocents died.

Take me down to ground zero, sister,
I want to feel the void -
when an enemy’s faith 
put death before life,
and cowards made innocents die.

Take us to the five-sided fortress
and also honor the field -
where a test in the West
started defense,
and our bravest are still rollin’ on.

Premium Member Grieving the Loss

Solemn newscasters retell
Accounts filled with sorrow.
More children lost
where they should have been safe.

Seven lives cut short by 
the careful planning of one.

We see Rachel’s tears
falling again. They’re gone.
Parents, communities cry out
“How can such evil be addressed?”

Empty arms ache with excruciating pain.
We remember Michelangelo’s “La Pieta”,
She neither blamed her Creator,
nor held back her expression of sorrow.

As we see yet another example of innocent slaughter,
And wonder how we address this culture of death.
Such pervasive life-destroying demands provoke us
to join the saints below the altar and cry, “How long Lord…?

Premium Member Itchy Fingers

Itchy Fingers?

I don’t mind dying in a nuclear war.
As long as it’s quick, not a lingering bore.
It’ll give the elite a chance to see the cloud.
Kill off the plebs in a crimson shroud.

I know their fingers are itching.
To press the oblivion button.
See what happens, 
from Moscow to Sutton.
and all the places in between,
They’ll watch it from their bunkers.
All the beautiful people I mean.
The psychopaths who own us
And control our pointless lives.
We the workers who feather their hives.

So, press it Musk, Trump, Putin and all else
Hidden in your bunkers focusing on self.

Obliterate the world. 
And the useless kind
You can do it to me.
I really don’t mind.

David Cox 27/02/24
© Dave Cox  Create an image from this poem.

How the Acid Rain Riots Stole My Innocents

As Nissan cars drove through the bars they picked up Jesus who yelled out to 
the populous HEY LOOK AT ME I’M FREE! And he was free to and God said 
check in later, but go be who you want to be. Society cried for the souls they lost 
wondering at what cost and the billboards lied and the fire hydrants said come 
inside it is safe we will protect you from the fire and all the while I wondered why 
you didn’t open your mind to find out what was real and what was feral and they 
said with their pretty hair, their arms bare they’re faces full of fake care, eyes 
wondering who was over there and are we safe in this place, she’s to wild for us, 
we’ve had enough she’s crazy you see she knows who we will be we would 
rather follow what they say instead of think! and the flowers screamed YOU 
NEED A SHRINK but no one listened because we could only hear and feel so we 
fell over in pain and it started to rain all the same and the droplets hit the ground 
bursting into anger and hate it drew out our fate cracked the concrete as it fell 
and dripped poison into the well. It’s a hard rain she screamed. ATOMIC RAIN! 
Society screamed. NUCLEAR RAIN! they yelled and ran crashing into one 
another over reacting once again over analyzing all the same and we watched in 
shock as the riots were fought and in a whisper I heard the wind zoom by my ear 
and suddenly I could feel right in wrong very strong but I forgot it the next day and I 
forgot how to read and to write and spell and I forgot how to speak and to feel 
and smell and it wasn’t until I forgot how to think how to open my mind how to 
see what could rhyme what was fine and then my eyes glazed over and I broke 
the window in front of me so I could see what I wanted to steal was not real just 
tubes and spark plugs that would make my life empty but my mind was so 
closed and my eyes so open that there was nothing left to tell me the truth so I 
joined the acid rain riots and all became quiet. The end of the world took place 
that day but we all keep living that exact same way.
© Lisa Geier  Create an image from this poem.

Slaughtered Innocents

slaughtered innocents
lambs on an evil altar
sacrificed to hate
carnage outrages the gods
spilt blood spells out remember

For Carolyn's 9-11 contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.

Innocents Indecent Endeavors

Of the bastard’s son, his mentality belied
That which was unforeseen among simple minded
People. A state with which corruption pollutes and lies,
While women in white sheets must be reminded.

For who can join in speech of which social populace cries,
When thou who is speaking knows not about the world therein?
A world filled with painted red roses living in a civility veiled guise
Must too soon realize that those who rule are those kingpins of tough skin.

Maidens of weak nature who abstain from pleasures of flesh
Are meant to be products of those who they sire from.
While pristine image flounders like a home creche
Mandates order amongst chaos, to live amongst the intellectually numb.

Virgin innocence reins clipped and controlled by those noble
Of intention, while the victim remains stuck in constructs – lost and immobile.

Wild Innocents

Your wild innocents 
brings me to my knees 
like a hurricane with a soft breeze 
your all i want to please 
Keep me by your side 
and Its your smile that you will never hide 
just stay for a little while 
our exit in just one mile 

The sun set red and yellow streaming through the western sky
I play with danger but never die 
I guess its my old friend luck that never fails me 
As my head lay on his shoulder 
Because I found love that night 
His face light by the moon light 

I was certain that there would be no cure 
It was his love of which i was sure 
A wedding ring will soon be bought 
A big house on a big lot 
couple of bird dogs and bond fire 
my love for you will never tire

Premium Member Taking the Lives of Innocents

Taking the Life of Innocents

A cold, Wisconsin dawn....
The children, burrowed under thick blankets and yawned.
Mother reminded them it was time for Sunday Mass!
“Bring your best  rosaries, made of rainbowed, crystal glass!
Obedient children, they dressed with finesse and class.

“For after Mass this very noon,we are going to the Kenosha
Christmas parade, with festive balloons, very soon!”
Michelle, your friend, with her dance class will be in it.
Mom continued,” she has been baton twirling for many weeks,
getting out all the kinks.”

Later, we all piled into Mom’s wonderful van!
Off to-the Parade was our fun plan.
Jack, my brother and I, sat behind the barricades.
Our best front row seats, to see the hometown
Kenosha Christmas Parade.

I sat there dreaming, planning to be in it next year.
When suddenly bullets flew round about me, and so I 
hunched my shoulders in fear.
Brother Jack on the sidewalk lay.
His face not pink, but the color of clay..

Bodies, children of God, run over
or struck, by an SUV?
Any age got to be injured, or were sent to 
the Lord.
As other cried, screamed and prayed this 
fateful day.
This horror ...when one man took many 
lives.
This is neither humane,nor is it
the American way.

My parents were sobbing uncontrollably. 
I asked Jesus, to not take Jack ....but me.
I knew the famous Green BayPacker, he one day 
Had hoped to be.
               
                 ************

A poem based on a real attack....
in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
                Nov 21, 2021



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