Adventure Innocence Poems

I have done everything.
I have survived the harshest winters, braved the fiercest jungles, and fought the most heroic battles.
You have too.
You looked to your friend,...

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Keep on blaming and cheating
It is annoying, and disgusting
You always have an excuse
You always want to amuse
Keep on criticizing
Keep on castigating
Put your conscience in the...

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The crest of golden hue.
The air brisk with cold anew.
Fields beckon for one to come
Chase dreams under the sun

Twist ankles in the stream
Water played with...

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Finding your lost mittens in the school’s lost and found.
Playing with some puppies as they run and jump around.
Happiness on your first day at school...

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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...

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Don’t you remember? That one time
When we were young and adventurous 
We settled on shared breath between
Pine trees and our neighbors oak
Tugging on leaves like...

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Golden curls catch the morning sun,
Festooned with shards of amber light.
Cascades with grace across her face,
An innocent smile of pure delight.

On a playground of soft...

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Rocking back and forth with a Magellan hat, Lennie prepares for sailing.
Incoherent babbling is heard from the explorer on all fours. 
Items of existential curiosity,...

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Early chapters are written without choice.
Scripted by parents from birth.
These chapters may read prosperous or despair. 
Innocence surrounded by ignorance life is not fair,
One may...

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Instead of dropping the mic I drop the pen…
To help me keep balance in this life I live in…
Through the chaos and mockery that comes...

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Lawn Mowers

Grandpa bought old junk, 
and then he made it better. 
He worked all day, 
every day... 
in the hot sun. 
The man
never
complained. 

I spent...

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AAA

I learned to type in Jr. High. 
I learned to tap the keyboard. 
One letter than another... 
on and on. 
AAA
AAA
AA Then... B

AAA
AAB
ABB
BBC
... 

One day...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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Technically, not a sea at all,
Lake Superior churns up its share of sea storms.

There is not a lot to do in Marquette, Michigan:
Except for high...

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His eyes glitter with
dreams and hopes of a
day that may be of some ways to go
the two kids under the makeshift tent
planning the next adventure,
the...

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