Early Teenage Poems of Tan Pratonix
Five Little Kids
Three Early Poems
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The Fate of a Child
Flourishing,
like a sapling, green
and tender
and full
of life, sprouts
a young child,
pure and innocent,
in a world
strewn
with seeds of vice
and corruption;
Only to be
choked
by hateful weeds,
only to wither
a rotting corpse
which
crumbles
to dust.
© Tan Pratonix
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A Question to Ponder
Pray, what is life
If full of strife,
If man must live
To
maim and kill,
If sorrow, pain
And hate must reign,
If love
is dead,
If war must spread,
If peace is gone
(All forlorn) ,
If faith and hope
And charity
And grace and truth
And joy
must be
Just a dream,
A memory?
© Tan Pratonix
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The Two Worlds of Man
When I was a child
my eyes were filled
with a pure light
and
I gazed with awe
at the beauty
and innocence
of the world,
which
only a child can see.
But as I grew older
the dust
and dirt
of humanity
dimmed my vision,
and I saw a world
grim
and cruel
and terrifying,
rolling towards
an abyss
at the
end of its
polluted path.
© Tan Pratonix
Another Related Poem on Childhood
- Innocence and Experience
This poem was written long ago when I was 17-18 years old. It shows the contrast between childhood and adulthood, between innocence and experience. It has a religious undertone to it./ The photograph is that of my cute little grandson...
