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#101631voted by our readers
By myLovelyFather GOLD
Grand Rapids, Michigan

I’m thin and awkward and clumsy. You’re short and fat and stubby. She’s tiny and shy and annoying. He’s quiet and ugly and nerdy. ‘You’re mean,’ you say, ‘and...
myLovelyFather GOLD, Grand Rapids, Michigan
17 articles 0 photos 55 comments

Favorite Quote:
And that's the thing about the future. It's unknown, unknowable, but before you know it, you're there.


#101632 Poetry
By A.M.Wilson DIAMOND
Midland, Texas
A.M.Wilson DIAMOND, Midland, Texas
99 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
You can't choose who you love but you can love who you choose.

#101633 Poetry
By Gayatri3 GOLD
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Gayatri3 GOLD, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
11 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;She turned her can&#039;ts into cans and her dreams into plans.&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ~ Unknown

#101634 Poetry
By RomeElias BRONZE
Jackson, New Jersey
RomeElias BRONZE, Jackson, New Jersey
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#101635 Poetry
By wintana habtu SILVER
Woodbridge, Virginia
wintana habtu SILVER, Woodbridge, Virginia
6 articles 0 photos 1 comment
#101636 Poetry
By TinyDaisy GOLD
Flat Rock, Michigan
TinyDaisy GOLD, Flat Rock, Michigan
10 articles 0 photos 2 comments
#101637 Poetry
By Anonymous
anisanasir_11 PLATINUM, Orlando, Other
23 articles 0 photos 36 comments

Favorite Quote:
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -Edgar Allan Poe<br /> ~&quot;Paper is more patient than people,&quot;~Anne Frank<br /> &quot;Inspiration from the heart is written in the dark.&quot;~Anisa Nasir

#101639 Poetry
By Darien328 SILVER
Ovid, Michigan
Darien328 SILVER, Ovid, Michigan
6 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Courage is the resistance of fear, the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear&quot; -Mark Twain

#101640 Poetry
By Fallen_Dreamer BRONZE
Baltimore, Maryland
Fallen_Dreamer BRONZE, Baltimore, Maryland
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The poet in his lone yet genial hour gives to his eyes a magnifying power&quot;<br /> - Coleridge