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#60191voted by our readers
Oh Dear Winter Tree
By Anonymous

Oh dear winter tree, your heyday has came and gone. Your limbs have been stripped bare by this dreadfully harsh winter. Your skeleton like figure made black against the solid whi...
#60192 Poetry
Focus
By Anonymous
#60193 Poetry
Just a Boy, a Ukulele, and a Dream
By TheMaisinator BRONZE
Leeds, Maine
TheMaisinator BRONZE, Leeds, Maine
4 articles 0 photos 15 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn&#039;t go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.&quot;<br /> ~Robert Fulghum

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#60194 Poetry
Lesson Learned
By ZydecoVivo PLATINUM
Concord, North Carolina
ZydecoVivo PLATINUM, Concord, North Carolina
38 articles 1 photo 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I reject your reallity and substitute my own&quot;- Adam Savage<br /> &quot;Words have no power to impress without the exquisite horror of their reality.&quot;-Edgar Allen Poe<br /> &quot;It&#039;s not that the questions were too hard, it&#039;s that they were too easy.&quot;-Ayn Rand

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#60195 Poetry
It's December!
By Samantha McKinnon BRONZE
Mount Prospect, Illinois
Samantha McKinnon BRONZE, Mount Prospect, Illinois
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#60196 Poetry
Saved
By BrittanyBean BRONZE
Cobleskill, New York
BrittanyBean BRONZE, Cobleskill, New York
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Always remember the good things that we do. They have to outweigh the evil we fight against otherwise we lode you have to visualize how this ends and how life goes on after we win; otherwise the present swallows you whole with despair.&quot;- Higginson

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#60197 Poetry
Stay strong
By Liability SILVER
Bishops Cleeve, Other
Liability SILVER, Bishops Cleeve, Other
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Everything will be okay in the end, and if it&#039;s not okay, it&#039;s not the end&quot;

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#60198 Poetry
Goodnight to Goodbye
By BrendanWrites SILVER
Browns Summit, North Carolina
BrendanWrites SILVER, Browns Summit, North Carolina
8 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Life is more suffering than pleasure. But the good parts are worth living for."

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#60199 Poetry
Are you ready for this?
By JanineMay PLATINUM
Winnipeg, Other
JanineMay PLATINUM, Winnipeg, Other
22 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
love is the millions of little things - like the time you made my lunch for me. love is you holding a chicken sandwich.

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#60200 Poetry
Best Day
By VidaG SILVER
Morgantown, West Virginia
VidaG SILVER, Morgantown, West Virginia
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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