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The Grass Braid
By CorinnaHerman BRONZE
Coral Gables, Florida

Three strands of grass, one longer than the other two, twisted and flipped with the  purpose of creation. Questions arise, but the makers succumb to their focus. One bla...
CorinnaHerman BRONZE, Coral Gables, Florida
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#70782 Poetry
You Should Think About Your Choices
By Anonymous
#70783 Poetry
tale youve spun
By windswift DIAMOND
Arvada, Colorado
windswift DIAMOND, Arvada, Colorado
80 articles 0 photos 91 comments

Favorite Quote:
let it burn, suffering teaches the soul; let it grow, love nourishes the heart.

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#70784 Poetry
Give Me Roses
By Anonymous
#70785 Poetry
No Wonder
By Me22895 DIAMOND
Azle, Texas
Me22895 DIAMOND, Azle, Texas
77 articles 0 photos 30 comments

Favorite Quote:
If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.

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#70786 Poetry
'Neath Starry Skies
By madelinedaily BRONZE
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
madelinedaily BRONZE, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink." ~Lilly Pulitzer

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#70787 Poetry
Onward
By Valor GOLD
Hawthorne, California
Valor GOLD, Hawthorne, California
15 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Look again at that dot. That&#039;s here. That&#039;s home. That&#039;s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every &quot;superstar,&quot; every &quot;supreme leader,&quot; every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.<br /> <br /> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.<br /> <br /> Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.<br /> <br /> The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.<br /> <br /> It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we&#039;ve ever known.&rdquo; <br /> ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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#70788 Poetry
Moments That Leave Scars
By Dinoshaw PLATINUM
Copperas Cove, Texas
Dinoshaw PLATINUM, Copperas Cove, Texas
28 articles 2 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.&quot;<br /> ~ Lao Tzu

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#70789 Poetry
sit on a bench
By Anonymous
#70790 Poetry
Cold as Ice
By ZoeElsa GOLD
Kamas, Utah
ZoeElsa GOLD, Kamas, Utah
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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