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#21961voted by our readers
I CAN READ YOUR BOOK
By KtMack11 SILVER
Beautiful, Michigan

I can read your book like a face; It’s only as deep as your skin. You have more wrinkles than pages, So when do you plan to begin? I can read your book like a face. I can ho...
KtMack11 SILVER, Beautiful, Michigan
8 articles 3 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
If you can't do it right, do it wrong.

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#21962 Poetry
Don't You Know
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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#21963 Poetry
Finally Home
By Tango PLATINUM
Fountain Valley, California
Tango PLATINUM, Fountain Valley, California
38 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Lead, follow, or get out of the way.&quot; Thomas Paine

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#21964 Poetry
When You Didn't Come
By sadesdd DIAMOND
Elma, Iowa
sadesdd DIAMOND, Elma, Iowa
90 articles 0 photos 213 comments
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#21965 Poetry
untitled
By laurenk2016 BRONZE
Rochester, Michigan
laurenk2016 BRONZE, Rochester, Michigan
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#21966 Poetry
Heart Ripples
By karakelso BRONZE
Bonita, California
karakelso BRONZE, Bonita, California
3 articles 0 photos 3 comments
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#21967 Poetry
Approaching Thunderstorm
By Thoughtful-Inker SILVER
Port Neches, Texas
Thoughtful-Inker SILVER, Port Neches, Texas
9 articles 3 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
Everything is okay is the end; if it&#039;s not okay, it&#039;s not the end.

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#21968 Poetry
WHY I CRY
By daniec SILVER
Jacksonville, Florida
daniec SILVER, Jacksonville, Florida
6 articles 0 photos 11 comments

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Dancing faces you towards heaven which ever way you turn. Dance for Christ because you can...

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#21969 Poetry
Five Roses
By AmandaElizabeth PLATINUM
Fulton, Kentucky
AmandaElizabeth PLATINUM, Fulton, Kentucky
48 articles 0 photos 34 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.&quot;

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#21970 Poetry
She Goes Up
By David16 BRONZE
Charleston, South Carolina
David16 BRONZE, Charleston, South Carolina
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;We are all a little weird and life&rsquo;s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.&rdquo;<br /> &mdash; Dr. Seuss

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