Remembering Innocence: A collection of Poetry

I’m writing this to help you understand exactly what it is this collection of poems represents, both to me and of me... It wasn’t until I started college in 09 that I began to understand just how blind I was to the darkness that permeates the world. Oh, there are still wonderful and amazing places and people and events all around this great blue sphere that the human race calls home, but there is also sadness and pain, darkness and regret, hurt and lies. Now that I see all of that, I simply can’t unsee it… the images and the realization of what the world truly is has now been ingrained in my personality, and to some degree I feel as if my true, pure innocence has been lost. My naivety has been swept back, like the white veil that hides a bride’s face, and I am forced to view the world for what it really is. There is some pain I’ve felt at the realization of this loss. Nothing devastating, of course, but sometimes it feels like there is an empty void in my chest where my innocence once held residence. Now in my early adult years, these poems are reminders of that lost part of me, sweet memories and thoughts transcribed in notebooks years ago when a fit of inspiration took me by surprise and wrought wonders on blank paper. My childhood innocence forged these memories, and now they remind me that the world can still be beautiful...

Nichole White is a freelance writer whose many projects and interests vary from song writing/singing, poetry, novels, and publishing, to blogging, artwork, beading, and sewing. She is currently attending Illinois Central College where she is majoring in English and Music, and she is also the owner of a small Independent publisher called Magpie Eclectic Press specializing in Speculative Fiction. She currently lives on a farm in Central Illinois with her mom, dad, five siblings, three dogs, and a bunch of farm cats that she loves dearly. Though her home and feet are planted on the earth, her head and heart are eternally in the clouds where she searches the giants' castles for new adventures to write about.