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#306171voted by our readers
To Neverland
By CraigV BRONZE
Ben Lomond, California

Down the drain to Neverland: There I'll someday be, But now I have this gun in hand, And this torture's killing me! Oh, this painful despair Drowning down to Never...
CraigV BRONZE, Ben Lomond, California
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
The ending has not yet been written.

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#306172 Poetry
Salute
By TraceBatWingsAndBrokenStrings DIAMOND
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
TraceBatWingsAndBrokenStrings DIAMOND, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
52 articles 0 photos 72 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;This gun has stopped time in its tracks, has altered the course of our fate. Destiny is shattered and timeless. Closed eyes feel the cold winds embrace.&quot;<br /> -Avenged Sevenfold

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#306173 Poetry
Angel
By JustBells GOLD
La Porte, Texas
JustBells GOLD, La Porte, Texas
10 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Before me things create were none, save things<br /> Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.<br /> All hope abandon, ye who enter here.&rdquo; <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> - Dante &#039;Inferno&#039;

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#306174 Poetry
Sitting in the dark
By ElaM ELITE
Surrey, Columbia
ElaM ELITE, Surrey, Columbia
321 articles 27 photos 120 comments

Favorite Quote:
“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party; and I attended with my real face.” ~Franz Kafka

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#306175 Poetry
I'm A Big Girl Now
By el-oh-el PLATINUM
Maloney Gardens, Other
el-oh-el PLATINUM, Maloney Gardens, Other
28 articles 14 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn&#039;t serve the world. There&#039;s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won&#039;t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It&#039;s not just in some of us, it&#039;s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.<br /> -Marianne Williamson

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#306176 Poetry
Your Father
By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
LOITERING with a vacant eye<br /> Along the Grecian gallery,<br /> <br /> And brooding on my heavy ill,<br /> <br /> I met a statue standing still.<br /> <br /> Still in marble stone stood he,<br /> And stedfastly he looked at me.<br /> <br /> &lsquo;Well met,&rsquo; I thought the look would say,<br /> <br /> &lsquo;We both were fashioned far away;<br /> <br /> We neither knew, when we were young,<br /> <br /> These Londoners we live among.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> <br /> Still he stood and eyed me hard,<br /> <br /> An earnest and a grave regard:<br /> <br /> &lsquo;What, lad, drooping with your lot?<br /> <br /> I too would be where I am not.<br /> <br /> I too survey that endless line<br /> Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.<br /> <br /> Years, ere you stood up from rest,<br /> <br /> On my neck the collar prest;<br /> <br /> Years, when you lay down your ill,<br /> <br /> I shall stand and bear it still.<br /> Courage, lad, &rsquo;tis not for long:<br /> <br /> Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> So I thought his look would say;<br /> <br /> And light on me my trouble lay,<br /> <br /> And I slept out in flesh and bone<br /> Manful like the man of stone.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -A.E. Housman

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#306177 Poetry
Dark Hole
By iiarmineii SILVER
Wayne, New Jersey
iiarmineii SILVER, Wayne, New Jersey
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#306178 Poetry
Counrty Girl
By echor BRONZE
Goshen, Ar, Arkansas
echor BRONZE, Goshen, Ar, Arkansas
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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#306179 Poetry
Before I rest
By Mikhayla777 BRONZE
Mancelona, Michigan
Mikhayla777 BRONZE, Mancelona, Michigan
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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#306180 Poetry
To that Guy
By Anonymous