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#268801voted by our readers
By Loveisadogfromallentown GOLD
Allentown, Pennsylvania

Why do we always go crawling back To that Medusa glare? That serpent hair? Why do we slip, tumble down every hill That we so boldly intend to scale?
Loveisadogfromallentown GOLD, Allentown, Pennsylvania
13 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
I'd complain my way through the tunnels of eternity.


baumshell DIAMOND, Burbank, California
68 articles 0 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I was thinking how nothing lasts and what a shame that is."-Benjamin Button

#268803 Poetry
By KLM705 BRONZE
Plaquemine, Louisiana
KLM705 BRONZE, Plaquemine, Louisiana
4 articles 1 photo 5 comments
#268804 Poetry
By pithytothemax GOLD
Calgary, Other
pithytothemax GOLD, Calgary, Other
12 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." (James Dean)

#268805 Poetry
By Anonymous
#268806 Poetry
By Nated315 DIAMOND
Georgetown, New York
Nated315 DIAMOND, Georgetown, New York
92 articles 7 photos 105 comments

Favorite Quote:
Truth has many shades. It's not a matter of black and white, but many grays.

#268807 Poetry
By OpheliaGrant BRONZE
West Deptford, New Jersey
OpheliaGrant BRONZE, West Deptford, New Jersey
4 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Understand me. <br /> I&#039;m not like an ordinary world. <br /> I have my madness, <br /> I live in another dimension <br /> and I do not have time for things<br /> that have no soul.&quot; <br /> -Charles Bukowski

#268808 Poetry
Lucy4himnotu ELITE, Richardson, Texas
148 articles 0 photos 54 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I am Happy to The Point of Fear&quot; -Ralph Waldo Emmerson

#268809 Poetry
By addymay BRONZE
Springfield, Missouri
addymay BRONZE, Springfield, Missouri
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
But he said to me,&quot; My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.&quot; Therefore i will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ&#039;s power may rest on me.&quot; 2 corinthians 12:9

#268810 Poetry
By RedheadAtHeart ELITE
Mountain Home, Idaho
RedheadAtHeart ELITE, Mountain Home, Idaho
109 articles 0 photos 164 comments

Favorite Quote:
Love with open hands. - Madeleine L&#039;Engle