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By Mariahroo GOLD
El Cajon, California

Look into the rippling mirror, See its surface, rife with fear. Cruelty is the word it knows, Sinning creature far below. But take a rag unto its face And smear some blood, ho...
Mariahroo GOLD, El Cajon, California
14 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid&mdash;and I know they are&mdash;yet I won&#039;t be wiser?&rdquo; <br /> ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment


#103672 Poetry
By MBloomer BRONZE
League City, Texas
MBloomer BRONZE, League City, Texas
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#103673 Poetry
By marad32 GOLD
Hartland, Wisconsin
marad32 GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
14 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#103674 Poetry
By Anonymous
#103675 Poetry
By Anonymous
#103676 Poetry
By --Morganne[: SILVER
Maryville, Tennessee
--Morganne[: SILVER, Maryville, Tennessee
5 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
At the times when you feel like life is over is when you grow the strongest.

#103677 Poetry
Positivity_At_Its_Finest DIAMOND, Morrow, Georgia
56 articles 2 photos 148 comments

Favorite Quote:
Life is a stage, get on it and perform your best act.

#103678 Poetry
By Kyuss_A SILVER
Littleton, Colorado
Kyuss_A SILVER, Littleton, Colorado
6 articles 3 photos 0 comments
#103679 Poetry
#103680 Poetry
By PoetFromAnotherPlanet GOLD
San Jose, California
PoetFromAnotherPlanet GOLD, San Jose, California
15 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." -T.S. Eliot