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#1441voted by our readers
By swiftheart GOLD
Houston, Texas

It raids every city within sight And live the people in misery and gloom. I watch as it tears and burns with harsh But I just can’t help but fear its wrath. I see it comes in...
swiftheart GOLD, Houston, Texas
17 articles 5 photos 81 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If someone were to pay you 10 cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect 5 cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"


#1442 Poetry
By PoetryIsLife BRONZE
Newark, Delaware
PoetryIsLife BRONZE, Newark, Delaware
3 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
The people you need in your life are the ones that need you in theirs

#1443 Poetry
By kcnikole BRONZE
Indianapolis, Indiana
kcnikole BRONZE, Indianapolis, Indiana
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#1444 Poetry
By Regen BRONZE
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
Regen BRONZE, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"There is no such thing as good or bad but thinking that makes it so." (Shakespeare)

Lucy-Agnes PLATINUM, Clarksville, Ohio
22 articles 0 photos 53 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world." - Justice Antonin Scalia

#1446 Poetry
maxwasherex BRONZE, Eubank, Kentucky
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#1447 Poetry
By Lucy4himnotu ELITE
Richardson, Texas
Lucy4himnotu ELITE, Richardson, Texas
148 articles 0 photos 54 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I am Happy to The Point of Fear" -Ralph Waldo Emmerson

a.(L) SILVER,
5 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
. . . So take too many pictures, laugh too much and love like you&#039;ve never been hurt, because every 60 seconds you spend upset, is a minute of happiness you will never get back. ( L ) <br /> <br /> <br /> xoxo, a.(L)

#1449 Poetry
DanceOfBlades PLATINUM, Springfield, Virginia
28 articles 0 photos 31 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy&#039;s first Law of Equivalent Exchange.&quot;

#1450 Poetry
By kate_anne PLATINUM
Cedartown, Georgia
kate_anne PLATINUM, Cedartown, Georgia
41 articles 7 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.<br /> -Stephen King