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#10241voted by our readers
By PEF11 GOLD
Larchmont, New York

My mother sighs and drops the book Lifting her gaze to the window, she watches one solitary yellow leaf Fall slowly from the sun-speckled canopy of the cherry tree in the backyar...
PEF11 GOLD, Larchmont, New York
14 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name"- William Shakespeare


#10242 Poetry
By collegegirladventures GOLD
Mequon, Wisconsin
collegegirladventures GOLD, Mequon, Wisconsin
10 articles 8 photos 307 comments

Favorite Quote:
A poet&#039;s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.<br /> <br /> ~Salman Rushdie

#10243 Poetry
By calliejo BRONZE
Centerville, Iowa
calliejo BRONZE, Centerville, Iowa
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Be yourself not what people want you to be.

#10244 Poetry
By Emy01 BRONZE
Sandy, Utah
Emy01 BRONZE, Sandy, Utah
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says, &#039;I&#039;ll try again tomorrow&#039;.&quot; - Thomas S. Monson

#10245 Poetry
By Jatkins35 BRONZE
Detroit, Michigan
Jatkins35 BRONZE, Detroit, Michigan
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
Exegious_Mulcifer GOLD, Denver, Colorado
11 articles 0 photos 2 comments
#10247 Poetry
By Austin PLATINUM
Pipe Creek, Texas
Austin PLATINUM, Pipe Creek, Texas
20 articles 0 photos 7 comments
#10248 Poetry
By Anonymous
#10249 Poetry
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#10250 Poetry
By oliviaferreira DIAMOND
Arlington, Massachusetts
oliviaferreira DIAMOND, Arlington, Massachusetts
92 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;You&#039;re only given one little spark of madness; you mustn&#039;t lose it.&quot;<br /> -Robin Williams