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#175761voted by our readers
By lnsims_98 PLATINUM
Waxhaw, North Carolina

After we shut the lights off, After she fell asleep, I was still awake. I would crawl out of the covers And peer out the window. The pane smelled of Winter and old wo...
lnsims_98 PLATINUM, Waxhaw, North Carolina
43 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33


#175762 Poetry
By Anonymous
#175763 Poetry
#175764 Poetry
By DoubleD78678 BRONZE
Yorktown, Virginia
DoubleD78678 BRONZE, Yorktown, Virginia
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Then we would go sleep in our bunk beds, Johnny would always get top bunk, I was afraid of rolling out. Then we grew up.<br /> <br /> I miss Savannah, Georgia. I miss that wooden fence. I miss that oak tree and the bunk beds. Johnny and I are older now and much more distant, ever since we left Savannah it hasn&#039;t been the same. We grew up too fast. And I wish we could go back. So we could be brothers again.

#175765 Poetry
By Anonymous
#175766 Poetry
Sian1 GOLD, Af, Other
10 articles 0 photos 7 comments
firstsnowfalls DIAMOND, Marcellus, New York
51 articles 6 photos 105 comments
#175768 Poetry
By PurpleRockstar GOLD
Lexington, Kentucky
PurpleRockstar GOLD, Lexington, Kentucky
11 articles 0 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
A creative person has to create. It doesn&#039;t really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. --Katherine Dunham

#175769 Poetry
By Alexkonradi BRONZE
SAN ANTONIO, Texas
Alexkonradi BRONZE, SAN ANTONIO, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#175770 Poetry
By Caesar123 DIAMOND
Union Grove, Wisconsin
Caesar123 DIAMOND, Union Grove, Wisconsin
50 articles 7 photos 103 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Madness in great ones must not unwatched go&quot; --Claudius in William Shakespeare&#039;s Hamlet