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#311951voted by our readers
By Anonymous

Children jump the hopscotch gridThey run it down to chalky dustA fear-ridden city pumps beside themChildren run the chalk borderThis is where they areThis is what they live forLaug...

#311952 Poetry
Smartygirl625 PLATINUM, El Paso, Texas
20 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Love, for a guy, is just a chapter... but for a girl, its the whole book.

#311953 Poetry
By CharlottePetit SILVER
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
CharlottePetit SILVER, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
6 articles 3 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
It’s sad when people you know become people you knew, when you can walk right past someone like they were never a big part your life, how you used to be able to talk for hours and how now you can barely even look at them. But everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they go right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart, so that better things can fall together.

#311954 Poetry
By RobertSeabrook GOLD
Fairfax, Virginia
RobertSeabrook GOLD, Fairfax, Virginia
15 articles 1 photo 6 comments
#311955 Poetry
By Mckay ELITE
Somewhere, Virginia
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
146 articles 0 photos 2230 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.&quot;<br /> &mdash;Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Think Different&rdquo; commercial, 1997<br /> &ldquo;Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn&#039;t understood.&rdquo; <br /> ― Weihui Zhou

#311956 Poetry
By thats.it.95 GOLD
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
thats.it.95 GOLD, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
13 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;When god made men she was only joking&quot;

#311957 Poetry
By tyreselbrooks BRONZE
High Point, North Carolina
tyreselbrooks BRONZE, High Point, North Carolina
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
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foreverwritingwithyou BRONZE, NA, Other
2 articles 0 photos 1 comment
#311959 Poetry
By writeandreid SILVER
Salt Lake City, Utah
writeandreid SILVER, Salt Lake City, Utah
6 articles 2 photos 4 comments
#311960 Poetry
By writinglikecrazy BRONZE
Moummouth Junction, New Jersey
writinglikecrazy BRONZE, Moummouth Junction, New Jersey
4 articles 0 photos 47 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;If you find a path with no obsteticals it probably leads you no where &quot;~ Unknown