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#296501voted by our readers
By pyropoet DIAMOND
Zimmerman, Minnesota

I am a puppet Bound by your strings. You control me - My every movement is sharp and precise. You take up the strings And make me walk - Up and down those stairs to hell....
pyropoet DIAMOND, Zimmerman, Minnesota
71 articles 0 photos 59 comments

Favorite Quote:
You are NEVER alone in your troubles - there is someone who is always willing to lend a hand or a shoulder to you.<br /> -L. Kimpton


#296502 Poetry
By zachroyal PLATINUM
Johnson City, Tennessee
zachroyal PLATINUM, Johnson City, Tennessee
33 articles 4 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I Am but Mad North-northwest: When the Wind is Southerly I Know a Hawk from a Handsaw&quot;<br /> -Hamlet

#296503 Poetry
By M.T.J.M. BRONZE
Jonesboro, Indiana
M.T.J.M. BRONZE, Jonesboro, Indiana
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#296504 Poetry
By sincerelybritti SILVER
Richlandtown, Pennsylvania
sincerelybritti SILVER, Richlandtown, Pennsylvania
5 articles 3 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work&quot; - T. Edison

#296505 Poetry
By livigrace97 BRONZE
Sugar Land, Texas
livigrace97 BRONZE, Sugar Land, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Believe in yourself.&quot;

#296506 Poetry
By Paige4699 GOLD
Jackson, Rhode Island
Paige4699 GOLD, Jackson, Rhode Island
11 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

#296507 Poetry
hannahfradkin GOLD, Missoula, Montana
18 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;There is something living in these lives I&#039;ve not yet found.&quot; Julia Cohen

#296508 Poetry
By Tallula77 PLATINUM
Sandhausen, Other
Tallula77 PLATINUM, Sandhausen, Other
46 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
With shortness of breath, I&#039;ll explain the infinite- how rare and beautiful it is that we exist<br /> By sleeping at last

OneSeven-billionth PLATINUM, Westerville, Ohio
28 articles 1 photo 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Writing does not resurrect, it buries." - John Green<br /> "We are all just barnacles on the container ship of consciousness."-John Green