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#250561voted by our readers
By MikaylaMcA GOLD
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

I watched you sleep last night the way you laid the way you breathed I tucked your hair behind your ear and whispered softly -I love you you were so peaceful and so at...
MikaylaMcA GOLD, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
10 articles 28 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars&quot;<br /> -Oscar Wilde


#250562 Poetry
By trevorritz BRONZE
Sioux City, Iowa
trevorritz BRONZE, Sioux City, Iowa
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#250563 Poetry
By Meg_H GOLD
St. Louis, Missouri
Meg_H GOLD, St. Louis, Missouri
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#250564 Poetry
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#250565 Poetry
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#250566 Poetry
By Aidan_Hershberger GOLD
Elkhart, Indiana
Aidan_Hershberger GOLD, Elkhart, Indiana
12 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi

#250567 Poetry
By YuukiCross GOLD
West Chester, Ohio
YuukiCross GOLD, West Chester, Ohio
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.&quot;

#250568 Poetry
By Anonymous
#250569 Poetry
By KaitlynC GOLD
Oneonta, New York
KaitlynC GOLD, Oneonta, New York
16 articles 1 photo 15 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;when i met you i fell in love and you smiled because you knew&quot; ~William Shakespear

#250570 Poetry
By reessaufley SILVER
Milton, New Hampshire
reessaufley SILVER, Milton, New Hampshire
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;close only counts in horseshoes and nuclear war&quot;