innocence

white peony
purity expressed
in petals

Following Instructions

mother said
stay off the road
hide if trouble comes

early morning
held in spring’s
caress of innocence

inside
the flowering
white ring of innocence

dappled light
the blossom’s scent
innocence returned

everything a wonder
the world
is brand new

too new to the world
to know fear
the fawn questions
with eyes of innocence

Across the bridge of otherness
innocence resides in a white rose.

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