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Lace and Bad Myths
By lookingformargo SILVER
Ithaca, New York

I speak taboo words With a tongue that knows touch Form the syllables with red-painted lips Lined with the ghosts of kisses past And I hide the stories of long, angry nights...
lookingformargo SILVER, Ithaca, New York
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
A child said, &quot;What is the grass?&quot; fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven... and now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. -Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass<br /> <br /> <br /> We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and falling. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. -Looking For Alaska<br /> <br /> Here&#039;s what&#039;s not beautiful about it: from here, you can&#039;t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It&#039;s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It&#039;s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I&#039;ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> It is so hard to leave&mdash;until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.<br /> The light falls without letup, blindingly. - A Life, Sylvia Plath

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#219702 Poetry
Memories and Miseries
By Alexandrathepoet PLATINUM
Leesville, South Carolina
Alexandrathepoet PLATINUM, Leesville, South Carolina
35 articles 0 photos 119 comments

Favorite Quote:
If nothing else, believe in art.<br /> ~Unknown

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#219703 Poetry
Down the Rabbit Hole
By mills PLATINUM
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
mills PLATINUM, Hazleton, Pennsylvania
24 articles 3 photos 1 comment
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#219704 Poetry
Rainy Day...^_^
By TheComet PLATINUM
Mostaganem, Other
TheComet PLATINUM, Mostaganem, Other
22 articles 1 photo 439 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret&quot; -Ambrose Bierce<br /> &quot; Be yourself! Everybody else is already taken ;)&quot;<br /> &quot;Don&#039;t go where the path leads you. Go instead where there&#039;s no path and leave a trail ;)&quot;-R.W.Emerson

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#219705 Poetry
Books
By Anonymous
#219706 Poetry
Laughter/Silence
By LiteraryMe PLATINUM
Dayton, Ohio
LiteraryMe PLATINUM, Dayton, Ohio
41 articles 19 photos 519 comments

Favorite Quote:
“The earth has music for those who listen.” —William Shakespeare

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#219707 Poetry
My Mother
By ava_hernke27 SILVER
Cannon Falls, Minnesota
ava_hernke27 SILVER, Cannon Falls, Minnesota
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#219708 Poetry
The Rain Came Pouring
By Anonymous
#219709 Poetry
If Only We Could Take Them Back
By Anonymous
#219710 Poetry
Two Hearts
By DreamOfMe011 GOLD
Manchester, New Hampshire
DreamOfMe011 GOLD, Manchester, New Hampshire
19 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
The greatest pleasure in life is doing things others say you cannot do<br /> or<br /> Tell me I can&#039;t, and I&#039;ll show you I can.

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