Childhood Portfolio

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In this portfolio I explore the art of growing up, and the hardships that go with it. It is a journey on having innocence and how growing up you start to lose your innocence. When you first have your innocence you think the world is perfect and you see it through a black and white lense.However when you lose your innocence you start to notice the hardships people start to go through in life, and you start to notice that the world is not just black and white it has many other colors waiting to be discovered. I started my portfolio with a haiku, that sets up childhood. Then I put a poem on Innocence, it explores the innocence people have as a child. I put in the poem “Born” which explores being in a world that you have no control over. Then I

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