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#217061voted by our readers
By littlemsawkward ELITE
Holbrook, Massachusetts

This is the time To be everything we want And nothing we need To fail all we can And never succeed To put pleasure first While priority takes a back seat To live life to the...
littlemsawkward ELITE, Holbrook, Massachusetts
119 articles 7 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
"To be great is to be misunderstood." ((Ralph Waldo Emerson))


#217062 Poetry
By Aaron1998 BRONZE
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Aaron1998 BRONZE, Rocky Mount, North Carolina
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.<br /> -Charles Darwin

#217063 Poetry
By bballbabe3 BRONZE
Lincoln, Maine
bballbabe3 BRONZE, Lincoln, Maine
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#217064 Poetry
By dushacksmiles05 BRONZE
Moon Twp., Pennsylvania
dushacksmiles05 BRONZE, Moon Twp., Pennsylvania
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#217065 Poetry
By Ivvilynn BRONZE
LiIttleton, Colorado
Ivvilynn BRONZE, LiIttleton, Colorado
4 articles 1 photo 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
We&rsquo;re all a little weird. And life&rsquo;s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in to mutual weirdness and call it love.

#217066 Poetry
By V.V.42 BRONZE
HUNTINGTON PARK, California
V.V.42 BRONZE, HUNTINGTON PARK, California
2 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Humankind cannot stand too much of reality.&quot;<br /> -T.S. Eliot

#217067 Poetry
By Sliderned SILVER
Los Lunas, New Mexico
Sliderned SILVER, Los Lunas, New Mexico
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#217068 Poetry
A.Steele.B BRONZE, Junction, Texas
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Life is understood backwards, but can only be lived forwards.&quot;

#217069 Poetry
By UnwrittenDead GOLD
Durant, Oklahoma
UnwrittenDead GOLD, Durant, Oklahoma
18 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#217070 Poetry
By Anonymous