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#238221voted by our readers
Toes in Grass
By DallasCox SILVER
Wallingford, Kentucky

I found a lonely bird (the bird was me) And pondered why it chose to remain here When for it, flight and sky mingled so near Though it held knowledge I could seldom see I thoug...
DallasCox SILVER, Wallingford, Kentucky
9 articles 0 photos 5 comments
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#238222 Poetry
Choked
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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#238223 Poetry
The beautiful river
By duedue BRONZE
Sweet Home, Oregon
duedue BRONZE, Sweet Home, Oregon
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
everything seems easy in life after you have wrestled

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#238224 Poetry
Fake
By ShoshiSerif00 GOLD
Peyton, Colorado
ShoshiSerif00 GOLD, Peyton, Colorado
14 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
" "Thank you," he finally said. He couldn't say he meant thanks for all of it: the keys, the trust, the honesty, the kisses. Hopefully Andrew would figure it out eventually. "You were amazing." " - All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

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#238225 Poetry
Night
By Shaco PLATINUM
Nanjing, Other
Shaco PLATINUM, Nanjing, Other
39 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

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#238226 Poetry
love....
By siya sethi SILVER
Raipur, Other
siya sethi SILVER, Raipur, Other
9 articles 0 photos 3 comments
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#238227 Poetry
Smoke Tails
By Anonymous
#238228 Poetry
Waiting...
By DolphinDozy PLATINUM
Payson, Utah (US), Utah
DolphinDozy PLATINUM, Payson, Utah (US), Utah
34 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;There is do and do not, no try.&quot; -Yoda

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#238229 Poetry
Resonance
By reenay_95 GOLD
West Lafayette, Indiana
reenay_95 GOLD, West Lafayette, Indiana
16 articles 0 photos 86 comments

Favorite Quote:
You can&#039;t see the stars if you are always looking down.

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#238230 Poetry
Free Death
By OneProzacADay PLATINUM
State College, Pennsylvania
OneProzacADay PLATINUM, State College, Pennsylvania
37 articles 0 photos 58 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;You are the universe expressing itself as human for a little while.&quot; -Eckhart Tolle

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