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#204711voted by our readers
By Katiepea SILVER
Roy, Washington

Time goes by Feelings unnoticed fade away Unfelt Cold hands grasp for something Anything To know they’re not alone Whispers fill your mind But your lips can’t move You p...
Katiepea SILVER, Roy, Washington
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments

#204712 Poetry
By Rap_up21 SILVER
Yuma, Arizona
Rap_up21 SILVER, Yuma, Arizona
8 articles 0 photos 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
"DON'T TOUCH MY COOOOOKKKIE!!!!!!!!!"

#204713 Poetry
By lookingformargo SILVER
Ithaca, New York
lookingformargo SILVER, Ithaca, New York
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
A child said, &quot;What is the grass?&quot; fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven... and now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. -Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass<br /> <br /> <br /> We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and falling. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. -Looking For Alaska<br /> <br /> Here&#039;s what&#039;s not beautiful about it: from here, you can&#039;t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It&#039;s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It&#039;s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I&#039;ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> It is so hard to leave&mdash;until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.<br /> The light falls without letup, blindingly. - A Life, Sylvia Plath

#204714 Poetry
EmilyDickinson BRONZE, Wyndmere, North Dakota
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Treat others the way you want to be treated.&quot;

#204715 Poetry
By AugustSummerFling PLATINUM
Mylapore, Chennai, Other
AugustSummerFling PLATINUM, Mylapore, Chennai, Other
35 articles 0 photos 265 comments

Favorite Quote:
&#039;For you, a thousand times over.&#039; - Hassan, The Kite Runner<br /> <br /> A professional writer is an amateur who didn&#039;t quit.

#204716 Poetry
By ToxicBox2Point0 BRONZE
Port Townsend, Washington
ToxicBox2Point0 BRONZE, Port Townsend, Washington
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#204717 Poetry
By WildWendy21 PLATINUM
Luling,Texas, Texas
WildWendy21 PLATINUM, Luling,Texas, Texas
37 articles 1 photo 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;mistakes are painful when they happen, but a collection of mistakes is called experience.&quot;-tumblr

#204718 Poetry
By natalie.schlosberg PLATINUM
Hastings-On-Hudson, New York
natalie.schlosberg PLATINUM, Hastings-On-Hudson, New York
30 articles 0 photos 6 comments
#204719 Poetry
By PMA#1 BRONZE
Kuantan, Other
PMA#1 BRONZE, Kuantan, Other
1 article 2 photos 0 comments
#204720 Poetry
By Anonymous