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Vanilla
By Gracieblue PLATINUM
Oak Park, Illinois

they hold their heads high fragile pride stretched ten feet between mingling with the smell of burning sugar moments they wrinkle their noses, brows and look for the sun...
Gracieblue PLATINUM, Oak Park, Illinois
22 articles 0 photos 11 comments
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#219702 Poetry
Hidden Love
By leiaboudreauxx BRONZE
Waggaman, Louisiana
leiaboudreauxx BRONZE, Waggaman, Louisiana
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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#219703 Poetry
She Who Howls For The Moon
By Anonymous
#219704 Poetry
My dream is to be happy
By claudiia, GOLD
Caguas, Other
claudiia, GOLD, Caguas, Other
16 articles 0 photos 1 comment
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#219705 Poetry
unsure
By kaseyparks PLATINUM
Houston, Texas
kaseyparks PLATINUM, Houston, Texas
22 articles 4 photos 19 comments
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#219706 Poetry
To Be Bad
By reillysmiley22 GOLD
Hoosick Falls, New York
reillysmiley22 GOLD, Hoosick Falls, New York
18 articles 4 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
I don think ive said to many serious things that can be admired and arent totally foolish, but my all time favorite quote is "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

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#219707 Poetry
Lace and Bad Myths
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

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#219708 Poetry
Memories and Miseries
By Alexandrathepoet PLATINUM
Leesville, South Carolina
Alexandrathepoet PLATINUM, Leesville, South Carolina
35 articles 0 photos 119 comments

Favorite Quote:
If nothing else, believe in art.<br /> ~Unknown

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#219709 Poetry
Down the Rabbit Hole
By mills PLATINUM
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
mills PLATINUM, Hazleton, Pennsylvania
24 articles 3 photos 1 comment
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#219710 Poetry
Rainy Day...^_^
By TheComet PLATINUM
Mostaganem, Other
TheComet PLATINUM, Mostaganem, Other
22 articles 1 photo 439 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret&quot; -Ambrose Bierce<br /> &quot; Be yourself! Everybody else is already taken ;)&quot;<br /> &quot;Don&#039;t go where the path leads you. Go instead where there&#039;s no path and leave a trail ;)&quot;-R.W.Emerson

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