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#15971voted by our readers
By OneProzacADay PLATINUM
State College, Pennsylvania

War. It is such a wonder how three little letters can cripple entire worlds beyond life. Death. Destruction. Pain, grief, colossal loss, are all that this monster leave...
OneProzacADay PLATINUM, State College, Pennsylvania
37 articles 0 photos 58 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You are the universe expressing itself as human for a little while." -Eckhart Tolle


#15972 Poetry
By daniellemarie13 GOLD
Escondido, California
daniellemarie13 GOLD, Escondido, California
10 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
“When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.” ~ Doctor Who

#15973 Poetry
By AddisoMLeo GOLD
Crest Hill, Illinois
AddisoMLeo GOLD, Crest Hill, Illinois
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Such a cruel boy. Telling me to dream one more time. I thought I was satisfied because my dream had come true... And I'd told myself it was enough... Yet here you are, watering this withered heart again."

#15974 Poetry
By Descant GOLD
Huntington Beach, California
Descant GOLD, Huntington Beach, California
15 articles 40 photos 26 comments

Favorite Quote:
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened" –Albert Camus

#15975 Poetry
By Anonymous
#15976 Poetry
By smurphs PLATINUM
Fairfield, Connecticut
smurphs PLATINUM, Fairfield, Connecticut
37 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#15977 Poetry
Illswallowyouwhole SILVER, Juneau, Alaska
9 articles 3 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
"He offered her the world. She said she had her own."

#15978 Poetry
By Alisha Goldrup SILVER
Freeport, Maine
Alisha Goldrup SILVER, Freeport, Maine
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#15979 Poetry
Padoodallee GOLD, Haven, Kansas
13 articles 0 photos 120 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -Michelangelou

#15980 Poetry
By Anonymous