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If You Want A Lover
By snowybutterfly DIAMOND
Fremont, California

If you want a lover, Take me. If your heart can only hold a friend, You are mine already, and I, I hope, Am yours. I have a habit of making things Too big, inflating them...
snowybutterfly DIAMOND, Fremont, California
59 articles 1 photo 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
Gold teeth, Grey Goose, tripping in the bathroom, blood stains, ball gowns, trashing the hotel room, we don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams --Lorde

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#100572 Poetry
Never Give Up
By Samii_Maze PLATINUM
Franklin, Wisconsin
Samii_Maze PLATINUM, Franklin, Wisconsin
41 articles 2 photos 2 comments
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#100573 Poetry
Seeking Perfection
By maybeidontknow BRONZE
Houston, Texas
maybeidontknow BRONZE, Houston, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake…You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that."

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#100574 Poetry
In the field
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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#100575 Poetry
Frontier
By CynthiaFeathers ELITE
Frisco, Texas
CynthiaFeathers ELITE, Frisco, Texas
124 articles 42 photos 47 comments

Favorite Quote:
He who is bound to a star does not turn back.<br /> Leonardo Di Vinci<br /> <br /> You see I&#039;m a bit of a poet, and you did not know it! What!?<br /> ~Sir Percy Blakeney

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#100576 Poetry
When I Think of You...
By Anonymous
#100577 Poetry
Loving Yourself
By swimmer63 PLATINUM
Monroe, Indiana
swimmer63 PLATINUM, Monroe, Indiana
37 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#100578 Poetry
The Lyrics
By Anonymous
#100579 Poetry
Goodnight Prayer
By Anonymous
#100580 Poetry
What am I
By ChrisH SILVER
Juneau, Alaska
ChrisH SILVER, Juneau, Alaska
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

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