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Poetry Friday: Days of Innocence 2

This week I am continuing a theme: e. e. cummings' poems of childhood.

Days of Innocence (2)

in Just-
spring       when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles       far       and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far       and       wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and
    the

         goat-footed

balloonMan       whistles
far
and
wee

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I love "puddle-wondeful" and "mud-luscious", don't you? I know, I should have saved it until spring, but it went so well with last week's poem that I couldn't resist. Happy Friday!

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