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You, Across My Sky
By OfTheFaithful GOLD
Litchfield Park, Arizona

The spaces and cracks between you and I. They stretch as far as the east is from the west. Some say the sky is the limit, but I do not believe it is so. Floating among the clo...
OfTheFaithful GOLD, Litchfield Park, Arizona
13 articles 2 photos 0 comments
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#290462 Poetry
Never Enough
By Jka_in_Wonderland GOLD
Canton, Ohio
Jka_in_Wonderland GOLD, Canton, Ohio
14 articles 1 photo 0 comments
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#290463 Poetry
My Luck Is Running Out
By muna.najihah PLATINUM
Malacca, Other
muna.najihah PLATINUM, Malacca, Other
25 articles 14 photos 26 comments

Favorite Quote:
if life was given two choices, to become a writer or a character, I will choose to become a writer.<br /> I have the power to decide what my life should be.

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#290464 Poetry
I will miss you
By Camii GOLD
Miami, Florida
Camii GOLD, Miami, Florida
10 articles 0 photos 75 comments
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#290465 Poetry
Cemetery
By lookingformargo SILVER
Ithaca, New York
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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#290466 Poetry
Great Nothingness
By makayla16 BRONZE
Nancy, Kentucky
makayla16 BRONZE, Nancy, Kentucky
4 articles 6 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
And it has been one hell of a year. I have worn the seasons under my sleeves, on my thighs, running down my cheeks. This is what surviving looks like my dear.

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#290467 Poetry
Call Me Crazy
By E-Naru SILVER
Chiang Mai, Other
E-Naru SILVER, Chiang Mai, Other
7 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Bump. Ba da la da ba da la da bum.&quot; - Baymax, Big Hero Six

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#290468 Poetry
Home.
By reannao BRONZE
Troy, Michigan
reannao BRONZE, Troy, Michigan
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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#290469 Poetry
I’m the Victim
By TrendyTiger13 BRONZE
Champaign, Illinois
TrendyTiger13 BRONZE, Champaign, Illinois
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#290470 Poetry
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