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#391721voted by our readers
By PoetFromAnotherPlanet GOLD
San Jose, California

Baby’s crying in its crib. Momma won’t take care of it. She can’t. She’s lying on the floor. Can’t get up or fall asleep. Darkness she has for ke...
PoetFromAnotherPlanet GOLD, San Jose, California
15 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." -T.S. Eliot


#391722 Poetry
By Anonymous
#391723 Poetry
By UrDreamCatcher GOLD
Dunlap, Tennessee
UrDreamCatcher GOLD, Dunlap, Tennessee
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." ---Edgar Allen Poe

#391724 Poetry
By ossiecastro5 PLATINUM
A Single Light In, New Jersey
ossiecastro5 PLATINUM, A Single Light In, New Jersey
39 articles 9 photos 68 comments

Favorite Quote:
I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying.

#391725 Poetry
By Riverine14 PLATINUM
Pinedale, Wyoming
Riverine14 PLATINUM, Pinedale, Wyoming
32 articles 0 photos 16 comments
#391726 Poetry
swallowedbystreetlights PLATINUM, Arlington, Virginia
45 articles 0 photos 8 comments
#391727 Poetry
By lifeisgreat BRONZE
Harrisonburg, Virginia
lifeisgreat BRONZE, Harrisonburg, Virginia
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#391728 Poetry
By Anonymous
#391729 Poetry
By Lovestinks1395 GOLD
Plainfield, Illinois
Lovestinks1395 GOLD, Plainfield, Illinois
15 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
God save us everyone we will burn inside thefire of a thousand suns.

#391730 Poetry
By rachellikestoread SILVER
Byram, Mississippi
rachellikestoread SILVER, Byram, Mississippi
5 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I can't tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." -Ed Sheeran