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Linger
By sarahdee GOLD
Swansea, Illinois

Breathe in Cool cloudy gray fog Fill my lungs with dew. Breathe out Red dusty hot desert sand Burn my throat as it goes. Sitting, not moving Colors flashing, d...
sarahdee GOLD, Swansea, Illinois
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute--life or truth or beauty--of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good."

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#66642 Poetry
All for a Dangerous Love
By abigaildianne SILVER
New Albany, Indiana
abigaildianne SILVER, New Albany, Indiana
5 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Never Fall for someone unless they're willing to catch you

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#66643 Poetry
Boxes
By Nosam BRONZE
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nosam BRONZE, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
4 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;My feet have wheels.&quot; --Alex<br /> <br /> First Man: &quot;And what was the cause of his death?&quot;<br /> Second Man: &quot;Life.&quot;

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#66644 Poetry
Broken screen
By MariahPotter PLATINUM
Lansing, Michigan
MariahPotter PLATINUM, Lansing, Michigan
39 articles 8 photos 74 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.&rdquo; -scarlett letter

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#66645 Poetry
Chlorine Days
By ArmandoSantiago PLATINUM
Orlando, Florida
ArmandoSantiago PLATINUM, Orlando, Florida
24 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
It&#039;s not that i don&#039;t want to see things just as they happened, it&#039;s just that i prefer to look at it in an artistic way.<br /> -Lady Gaga

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#66646 Poetry
Untitled
By Anonymous
#66647 Poetry
red jar MAG
By emilyjiang SILVER
Holmdel, New Jersey
emilyjiang SILVER, Holmdel, New Jersey
7 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#66648 Poetry
Forever the One
By Anonymous
#66649 Poetry
Dark with a Glimpse of Light
By Anonymous
#66650 Poetry
Utopia
By Tay_Nicole BRONZE
Gaylord, Michigan
Tay_Nicole BRONZE, Gaylord, Michigan
2 articles 6 photos 4 comments
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