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I see you in your innocence
I saw you sat in your innocence.
In the rain you banged your drums and mimed your song.
Your smile was pure enjoyment.
It made me smile as well.
You caught me as your head turned and I...
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Categories:
adventure, age, beautiful, innocence,
Form: Free verse
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 nature
I would spread my vibrant wings of luscious green,
blooming alongside...
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Categories:
analogy, autumn, innocence, perspective,
Form: Personification
A Wish Come TrueIn the dark of night
I seen a light
Was it a Star from a far?
Or a Planet?
Or another sun?
And as I learned,
Could it be
When time begun?
You see they say
If you look to a
Certain way
Through the universe,
What...
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Categories:
innocence, birthday, dream, growing up,
Form: I do not know?
after yougently burned away, my scars, in scars' fire—
from the hollow gloom that bound us with desire;
still I wear your flames on my sleeze—
your gift, my touch— remember me.......
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Categories:
innocence, beautiful, deep, devotion, emotions,
Form: Verse
Sobriquet - Naivete
Snared for an errant tweet
Never thought to be discreet
Escorted by a kick to the seat
Hope fell to grieve at his feet
...
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Categories:
evil, innocence, international, violence,
Form: Monorhyme
the growth of rainheaven on its knees, drop by drop
sprinkling like sweat
from our skies' bruised brow,
pouring out the macadam in my scars—
following floods race my tears' deja vu....
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Categories:
deep, innocence, introspection, life,
Form: Verse
Wishful ThinkingI sit with my feet touching the water
fascinated by a playful otter
near the river's edge, amid evergreens,
rolling along the sapphire surface sheens.
Swimming up and down propelling itself
enlightening up on a bare rock shelf.
Scattered green dwarf...
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Categories:
child, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
Lovely LotusThe euphoria in the birth of innocence is one so irresistible and bittersweet
Knowing the cold harvests of the world will purge for the end
The predators and prey are one and the same
To the flower, the...
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Categories:
innocence, abuse, baby, birth, childhood,
Form: Free verse
PretendingI began faking a smile at 10
Although I never cried in front of others, I stopped showing all feelings
By age 12 my friend began self harm
Thinking about it was as far as I ever got
To...
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Categories:
abuse, anxiety, fear, innocence,
Form: Free verse
The Fate Of InnocenceIf innocence is as observed by me,
A carefree behavior is all we see.
In Its presence we know not, right from wrong,
And we will soon learn, and it won’t take long.
In youth it appears when we’re...
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Categories:
innocence, change, education, fate, growing
Form: Sonnet
PlayfulnessJudged as audacious, the pure heart
played on, like an innocent child,
deeming all souls one, none apart;
emotes, tempestuous and wild,
yet touch tender, loving and mild....
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Categories:
innocence,
Form: Quintilla
Time and Time AgainIt is a vicious circle
It took two years before you could get back in a pool
This regret and pain never seem to go away
And neither do the questions
All the while, a piece of you is
Dying...
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Categories:
anger, death, depression, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Shattered dreamsDreams make up our society
Giving us anxiety
When the last hope becomes a lie
Children are told to believe they can fly
But in the end, what wins is reality
No use for a penalty
Being told to grow up...
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Categories:
innocence, child, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
InnocenceWhy, as we grow older
do we lose the innocence of youth
are ageing and innocence mutually exclusive
is it because innocence affords us no protection
leaving us defenceless
easy victims
and so we abandon it
as we come to know the...
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Categories:
innocence,
Form: Prose Poetry
Can you hold onto a peachIn the winter of my years, stands my barren tree
Its leaves stripped by autumnal winds
Against hope, it had one life left to give
I blew a warm breath into a lone branch
Hoping against hope, I stood...
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Categories:
innocence, extended metaphor, father son,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Innocence Poems
Definition | What is Innocence in Poetry?
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