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Our Widowed Mother
By KristinC PLATINUM
Cupertino, California

In winter’s eye We purl and wheeze The hiss of tripping gales. In summer’s throat We scuttle and simper On pavement black with boils. In fall’s whittled nose We furrow an...
KristinC PLATINUM, Cupertino, California
27 articles 0 photos 19 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.&quot;<br /> -F.Scott Fitzgerald, the Great Gatsby<br /> <br /> &quot;To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.&quot;<br /> -F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#108962 Poetry
Sensory
By IsabelleTan BRONZE
Pyeongtaek, Other
IsabelleTan BRONZE, Pyeongtaek, Other
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#108963 Poetry
Dreamer
By Fuocotanzer PLATINUM
Jacksonville, Florida
Fuocotanzer PLATINUM, Jacksonville, Florida
27 articles 0 photos 35 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested&quot; <br /> <br /> -Unknown

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#108964 Poetry
All The Cards On The Table
By Ilovemypets BRONZE
Newport Beach, California
Ilovemypets BRONZE, Newport Beach, California
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#108965 Poetry
Too Much
By jojo2011 BRONZE
Lauderdale Lakes, Florida
jojo2011 BRONZE, Lauderdale Lakes, Florida
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Live for yourself.

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#108966 Poetry
At the Plate
By TRFAN32 BRONZE
Richardson, Texas
TRFAN32 BRONZE, Richardson, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Live every day like it is your last.&quot;

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#108967 Poetry
Spring
By JustBells GOLD
La Porte, Texas
JustBells GOLD, La Porte, Texas
10 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Before me things create were none, save things<br /> Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.<br /> All hope abandon, ye who enter here.&rdquo; <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> - Dante &#039;Inferno&#039;

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#108968 Poetry
What I Feel
By GiannaGoodermuth BRONZE
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
GiannaGoodermuth BRONZE, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#108969 Poetry
Beauty Is Her
By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
LOITERING with a vacant eye<br /> Along the Grecian gallery,<br /> <br /> And brooding on my heavy ill,<br /> <br /> I met a statue standing still.<br /> <br /> Still in marble stone stood he,<br /> And stedfastly he looked at me.<br /> <br /> &lsquo;Well met,&rsquo; I thought the look would say,<br /> <br /> &lsquo;We both were fashioned far away;<br /> <br /> We neither knew, when we were young,<br /> <br /> These Londoners we live among.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> <br /> Still he stood and eyed me hard,<br /> <br /> An earnest and a grave regard:<br /> <br /> &lsquo;What, lad, drooping with your lot?<br /> <br /> I too would be where I am not.<br /> <br /> I too survey that endless line<br /> Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.<br /> <br /> Years, ere you stood up from rest,<br /> <br /> On my neck the collar prest;<br /> <br /> Years, when you lay down your ill,<br /> <br /> I shall stand and bear it still.<br /> Courage, lad, &rsquo;tis not for long:<br /> <br /> Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> So I thought his look would say;<br /> <br /> And light on me my trouble lay,<br /> <br /> And I slept out in flesh and bone<br /> Manful like the man of stone.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -A.E. Housman

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#108970 Poetry
Don't Have To Be Good
By dennis10 BRONZE
Miami, Florida
dennis10 BRONZE, Miami, Florida
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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