Poems About: INNOCENCE

From the day a soul
Is pulled from the Guff
To inhabit its 70-year hull,
Are its Dreams and Innocence not enough read more »

This world is sadistic-
Cut-throat; back stab
Why can't we be like children,
Maintain our innocence read more »

The eye of the sunflower
Stares into the clear skies;
Acres of bright, yellow effluence
Mimic read more »

I miss the road to school
I miss the innocence
I left somewhere on the road to school
I want my innocence back read more »

Innocence arrived on a late train
Carrying a cargo filled with pain

Defiance got off at the last stop read more »

When I was a young boy many decades ago
I thought babies like flowers in the gardens did grow
That's what I was told and what I did believe
Children have their innocence and are not hard to deceive. read more »

I lost my innocence.
Not once not twice but more times than I can count.
It was becuase of bastards.
Bastards who wanted to hurt. read more »

Why do you think I'm so innocent?
I am not.
'Keep your innocence'.
That's what they would say to me. read more »

It was but a glance of hope
that I saw in her eyes
About winds on the meadows
and birds in the heights read more »

When I was 'in' innocence,
I allowed curiosity to tease me away from it.
And each step taken,
Led me deeper to feed my unrest. read more »

What can I offer for you
at best my innocence
my rugged beliefs
and rough understandings read more »

Your innocence brings order to us,
It reminds us of our heaven,
This religion is pure and crimeless. read more »