Ignorance blissfully surrounds the innocent:
beauty seen through purity beseeches wonder ...
views inevitably lost through unforgiving wisdom
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credit: http://psychosomaticc.deviantart.com/art/Back-To-Childhood-86220577-
17 words
A contest entry
- quickie. by checkmate.
450 points, ended May 25, 2008, 9 entries
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You have become the master of the short poem... powerful images drawn with only a few master strokes of your pen... Well done!
Ken
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simple and powerful. exactly what I was looking for. this is a beautiful piece- I love this. thank you for entering this lovely write
best lucks,
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Says so much in those 17 years... how our innocence as a child is blissful... and then that naive nature is lost over the unforgiving years... certainly can relate to that!
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Stunningly-True Words
I agree we often lose that ability. We tend to see only the 'bad' and not the 'beauty' through purity. And ignorance definately plays a part here. You have written very well here Tatts. Well done indeed. Methinks a GOLD is on the way here for this?
With
Dark
Love
Wayne Leon
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Often as we grow older we lose the ability to see "beauty through purity"
(And who said that 'wisdom' is the be all and end all?
Well done My pet.
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