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I Lose Myself
By SamiLynn PLATINUM
Anthem, Arizona

These rooms they have no windows Stifling No fresh air I’m glued, glued to the seat Legs sticking sweatily to unforgiving plastic A film over my body Trapping me I can’t bre...
SamiLynn PLATINUM, Anthem, Arizona
20 articles 9 photos 137 comments

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"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates

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Ode to Dream
By dvoychuk GOLD
Watchung, New Jersey
dvoychuk GOLD, Watchung, New Jersey
12 articles 0 photos 1 comment
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Different MAG
By ebj.2014 PLATINUM
St. John, Washington
ebj.2014 PLATINUM, St. John, Washington
21 articles 0 photos 49 comments
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The Light Falls Soundly
By PyaraKiDivani BRONZE
Fort Collins, Colorado
PyaraKiDivani BRONZE, Fort Collins, Colorado
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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Umbrella MAG
By ebj.2014 PLATINUM
St. John, Washington
ebj.2014 PLATINUM, St. John, Washington
21 articles 0 photos 49 comments
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Morning
By ebj.2014 PLATINUM
St. John, Washington
ebj.2014 PLATINUM, St. John, Washington
21 articles 0 photos 49 comments
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Don't You Know
By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

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LOITERING with a vacant eye<br /> Along the Grecian gallery,<br /> <br /> And brooding on my heavy ill,<br /> <br /> I met a statue standing still.<br /> <br /> Still in marble stone stood he,<br /> And stedfastly he looked at me.<br /> <br /> &lsquo;Well met,&rsquo; I thought the look would say,<br /> <br /> &lsquo;We both were fashioned far away;<br /> <br /> We neither knew, when we were young,<br /> <br /> These Londoners we live among.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> <br /> Still he stood and eyed me hard,<br /> <br /> An earnest and a grave regard:<br /> <br /> &lsquo;What, lad, drooping with your lot?<br /> <br /> I too would be where I am not.<br /> <br /> I too survey that endless line<br /> Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.<br /> <br /> Years, ere you stood up from rest,<br /> <br /> On my neck the collar prest;<br /> <br /> Years, when you lay down your ill,<br /> <br /> I shall stand and bear it still.<br /> Courage, lad, &rsquo;tis not for long:<br /> <br /> Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> So I thought his look would say;<br /> <br /> And light on me my trouble lay,<br /> <br /> And I slept out in flesh and bone<br /> Manful like the man of stone.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -A.E. Housman

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Unlike The Copper Lincoln
By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

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LOITERING with a vacant eye<br /> Along the Grecian gallery,<br /> <br /> And brooding on my heavy ill,<br /> <br /> I met a statue standing still.<br /> <br /> Still in marble stone stood he,<br /> And stedfastly he looked at me.<br /> <br /> &lsquo;Well met,&rsquo; I thought the look would say,<br /> <br /> &lsquo;We both were fashioned far away;<br /> <br /> We neither knew, when we were young,<br /> <br /> These Londoners we live among.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> <br /> Still he stood and eyed me hard,<br /> <br /> An earnest and a grave regard:<br /> <br /> &lsquo;What, lad, drooping with your lot?<br /> <br /> I too would be where I am not.<br /> <br /> I too survey that endless line<br /> Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.<br /> <br /> Years, ere you stood up from rest,<br /> <br /> On my neck the collar prest;<br /> <br /> Years, when you lay down your ill,<br /> <br /> I shall stand and bear it still.<br /> Courage, lad, &rsquo;tis not for long:<br /> <br /> Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> So I thought his look would say;<br /> <br /> And light on me my trouble lay,<br /> <br /> And I slept out in flesh and bone<br /> Manful like the man of stone.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -A.E. Housman

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Random corner
By Kenniekonglee PLATINUM
Ampang, Other
Kenniekonglee PLATINUM, Ampang, Other
30 articles 3 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
. Just smile L:

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Blue Twilight
By CarsonAh BRONZE
Malibu, California
CarsonAh BRONZE, Malibu, California
4 articles 0 photos 1 comment
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