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#263921voted by our readers
A Boat that is Safer than the Land
By Oliviadregne BRONZE
Madison, Wisconsin

Children are put onto boats that are somehow safer than the land. Some leave their loved ones behind forever. Whether or not they’ll make it is unknown and often unlikely...
Oliviadregne BRONZE, Madison, Wisconsin
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#263922 Poetry
What I Do (Or Don't Do)
By lexy779 PLATINUM
Souderton, Pennsylvania
lexy779 PLATINUM, Souderton, Pennsylvania
26 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,<br /> There is a rapture on the lonely shore,<br /> There is society, where none intrudes,<br /> By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:<br /> I love not Man the less, but Nature more." <br /> -Lord Byron

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#263923 Poetry
The Brown Cedar Gate On
By 4mullettn GOLD
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
4mullettn GOLD, Pewaukee, Wisconsin
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#263924 Poetry
My Friends
By Estelle_Star SILVER
Union Grove, Wisconsin
Estelle_Star SILVER, Union Grove, Wisconsin
7 articles 3 photos 42 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emtions,&quot; James A. Michener.

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#263925 Poetry
Fatpricot
By notlad BRONZE
Santa Cruz, California
notlad BRONZE, Santa Cruz, California
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#263926 Poetry
YoU are The One
By lOveMeFoReVer BRONZE
OROVILLE, Arizona
lOveMeFoReVer BRONZE, OROVILLE, Arizona
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#263927 Poetry
The problem...
By Colormepurple SILVER
Lakeville, Minnesota
Colormepurple SILVER, Lakeville, Minnesota
5 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
DISNEY SHOULD MAKE A BALD PRINCESS SO CANCER PATIENTS CAN FEEL BEAUTIFUL 2

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#263928 Poetry
To change What can not be changed
By Valor GOLD
Hawthorne, California
Valor GOLD, Hawthorne, California
15 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Look again at that dot. That&#039;s here. That&#039;s home. That&#039;s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every &quot;superstar,&quot; every &quot;supreme leader,&quot; every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.<br /> <br /> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.<br /> <br /> Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.<br /> <br /> The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.<br /> <br /> It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we&#039;ve ever known.&rdquo; <br /> ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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#263929 Poetry
Verbal Abuse
By Gabrielle Cheak BRONZE
Dayton, Ohio
Gabrielle Cheak BRONZE, Dayton, Ohio
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#263930 Poetry
For you
By amandam.feldman1999 BRONZE
Brooten, Minnesota
amandam.feldman1999 BRONZE, Brooten, Minnesota
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