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#266931voted by our readers
By Anonymous

Lights, music, games, Games, fear, death. Ancient malice incarnate, A dark figure in the night. Souls bottled like blood, Red wine fresh from the cask. Laughter, pain, dark...

#266932 Poetry
By LilyBarnes GOLD
Cave Creek, Arizona
LilyBarnes GOLD, Cave Creek, Arizona
11 articles 3 photos 0 comments
#266933 Poetry
By Avolkoff24 BRONZE
Pasadena, California
Avolkoff24 BRONZE, Pasadena, California
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#266934 Poetry
By TigerLynn GOLD
Maysville, Kentucky
TigerLynn GOLD, Maysville, Kentucky
10 articles 0 photos 110 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;She walks in beauty,<br /> Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;<br /> And all that&#039;s best of dark and bright<br /> Meet in her aspect and her eyes.&quot;<br /> --Byron

#266935 Poetry
By JmmsLady GOLD
Shreveport, Louisiana
JmmsLady GOLD, Shreveport, Louisiana
12 articles 10 photos 0 comments
#266936 Poetry
By Cas-tastrophy BRONZE
Cartersville, Georgia
Cas-tastrophy BRONZE, Cartersville, Georgia
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!&quot; -Finding Forrester

#266937 Poetry
By brittanynichole BRONZE
Westlake, Louisiana
brittanynichole BRONZE, Westlake, Louisiana
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Things don&#039;t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were entended to be.&quot;

ElizabethistheBoss SILVER, Bucyrus, Ohio
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been&quot; - Edgar Allen Poe

#266939 Poetry
By LouisianaGirl GOLD
Covington, Louisiana
LouisianaGirl GOLD, Covington, Louisiana
14 articles 1 photo 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;When you were born, you were crying <br /> And everyone around you was smiling.<br /> Live your life so that when you die,<br /> You&#039;re the one who is smiling<br /> And everyone around you is crying.&quot;

#266940 Poetry
By bsolich14 PLATINUM
Greenwood Village, Colorado
bsolich14 PLATINUM, Greenwood Village, Colorado
35 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.&quot; <br /> &mdash;J.K. Rowling