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#318011voted by our readers
By fallingdusk BRONZE
Manlius, New York

Goodbye How strange—the quiet The birds must know They must know how you killed me With one word, Goodbye I’m walking on our path Do you remember it? Do you remember me?...
fallingdusk BRONZE, Manlius, New York
2 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
With each person that dies, a library is burned.


#318012 Poetry
By TheContentedWanderer94 GOLD
Tallahassee, Florida
TheContentedWanderer94 GOLD, Tallahassee, Florida
18 articles 0 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.<br /> - Nathaniel Hawthorne

#318013 Poetry
By jane.doe. SILVER
Argenta, Illinois
jane.doe. SILVER, Argenta, Illinois
5 articles 1 photo 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
~You were born an original. Don&#039;t die a copy.<br /> --Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

#318014 Poetry
By HopeIsWhatWeCrave GOLD
Rowlett, Texas
HopeIsWhatWeCrave GOLD, Rowlett, Texas
11 articles 1 photo 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
[Frodo] How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on... when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend... some hurts that go too deep... that have taken hold. <br /> <br /> _________________<br /> <br /> [Pippin] I didn&#039;t think it would end this way. <br /> [Gandalf] End? No, the journey doesn&#039;t end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it. <br /> [Pippin] What? Gandalf?... See what? <br /> [Gandalf] White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. <br /> [Pippin] Well, that isn&#039;t so bad. <br /> [Gandalf] No... No it isn&#039;t.<br /> <br /> _________________<br /> <br /> [Frodo] I can&#039;t do this Sam.<br /> [Sam] I know. By rights we shouldn&#039;t even be here, but we are. It&#039;s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn&#039;t want to know the end, because how could the end by happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it&#039;s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even the darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. The folk in those stories had plenty of chances of turning back only they didn&#039;t. They kept going. Because they were holding onto something. <br /> [Frodo] What were they holding onto, Sam?<br /> [Sam] That there&#039;s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it&#039;s worth fighting for

#318015 Poetry
By Anonymous
#318016 Poetry
By altindiegirl GOLD
Cedar Park, Texas
altindiegirl GOLD, Cedar Park, Texas
15 articles 0 photos 3 comments
#318017 Poetry
By kristabel BRONZE
Sacramento, California
kristabel BRONZE, Sacramento, California
4 articles 8 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;To accomplish great things you must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe.&quot;<br /> also<br /> &quot;Life is like a photograph; we use the negatives to develop&quot;

#318018 Poetry
EliMarie BRONZE, Mesa, Arizona
4 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;distance is not needed wanted or desired from You!&quot;

#318019 Poetry
By rayzdboss GOLD
Miramar, Florida
rayzdboss GOLD, Miramar, Florida
13 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot; Everyone&#039;s heart is like a puzzle, we&#039;re all in search to find that missing piece.&quot;

#318020 Poetry
By Alexa23 BRONZE
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Alexa23 BRONZE, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
2 articles 1 photo 0 comments