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#12721voted by our readers
Tulips
By KassidyLeigh GOLD
Brewer, Maine

Atulip comes up from the ground for only a few short days, and yet makes a mark on all of our hearts. They come up every year knowing that soon they will be gone, no longer the bea...
KassidyLeigh GOLD, Brewer, Maine
11 articles 4 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
"There are a millions guys who will try to pick you up but only one can sweep you off your feet!" -Emily Illingworth

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#12722 Poetry
The Boy
By Anonymous
#12723 Poetry
Fireworks
By TheOcherousRodentia PLATINUM
Toronto, Other
TheOcherousRodentia PLATINUM, Toronto, Other
29 articles 0 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Life is infinitely growing;<br /> It&#039;s capacity of love and fear is impossible<br /> To calculate by the means of math, or<br /> The properties of science, and to conatain<br /> Its ferious unpredictability is only a virtue<br /> That humans despire

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#12724 Poetry
losing control
By Sabrina13 GOLD
Jacksonville, Florida
Sabrina13 GOLD, Jacksonville, Florida
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
*As I lay here,<br /> thinking of you.<br /> All my thoughts,<br /> Gray and Blue.<br /> I wish I could see you,<br /> I wish I could.<br /> Then maybe my life<br /> could be understood.<br /> But, still I&#039;m down<br /> and Thinking Of You.<br /> <br /> * Inside this mirror, I see myself,<br /> trapped bhind a face no lo

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#12725 Poetry
You Don’t Own Me
By Evellen GOLD
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Evellen GOLD, Cheyenne, Wyoming
10 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Remember there&#039;s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.&quot;<br /> - Scott Adams

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#12726 Poetry
Love at First Sight?
By Anonymous
#12727 Poetry
My Grandfather
By avaswen04 PLATINUM
Arlington Heights, Illinois
avaswen04 PLATINUM, Arlington Heights, Illinois
24 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”<br /> ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#12728 Poetry
Gold
By Jacob1216 BRONZE
Hartland, Wisconsin
Jacob1216 BRONZE, Hartland, Wisconsin
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"We are waiting for the long-promised invasion, so are the fishes"-Winston Churchill (1940)

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#12729 Poetry
Writers block
By flairsister BRONZE
Littleton, Colorado
flairsister BRONZE, Littleton, Colorado
4 articles 0 photos 3 comments
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#12730 Poetry
The Stone Hedge
By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
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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