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#35071voted by our readers
By sarahdee GOLD
Swansea, Illinois

I miss the music from down below Laying in a dark room it made me feel less alone You understood me the best any stranger could I saw the light in you that you tucked deep insid...
sarahdee GOLD, Swansea, Illinois
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute--life or truth or beauty--of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good."


#35072 Poetry
By Kinners GOLD
Haven City, California
Kinners GOLD, Haven City, California
19 articles 0 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I&#039;m a TEMP from CHISWICK!!&quot;<br /> <br /> -Donna

#35073 Poetry
By Anonymous
#35074 Poetry
Raw
By KissMoon123 BRONZE
Yorktown Heights, New York
KissMoon123 BRONZE, Yorktown Heights, New York
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes

#35075 Poetry
By kpayy5 PLATINUM
Nantucket, Massachusetts
kpayy5 PLATINUM, Nantucket, Massachusetts
48 articles 0 photos 13 comments
#35076 Poetry
By LittleMidnight PLATINUM
Glendale, Arizona
LittleMidnight PLATINUM, Glendale, Arizona
28 articles 0 photos 63 comments

Favorite Quote:
Life is but a book just waiting to be filled, you make your own story

#35077 Poetry
By Noel.MCarlson66 GOLD
Waterford, Connecticut
Noel.MCarlson66 GOLD, Waterford, Connecticut
16 articles 1 photo 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Things have to get worse before they get better.

#35078 Poetry
By TheOceansBlackBird SILVER
Richmond, California
TheOceansBlackBird SILVER, Richmond, California
9 articles 14 photos 115 comments

Favorite Quote:
One persons craziness is another persons reality<br /> -Tim Burton<br /> <br /> and then there&#039;s this one<br /> ╭&cap;╮(︶︿︶)╭&cap;╮

#35079 Poetry
By Matkins26 BRONZE
Hinesville, Georgia
Matkins26 BRONZE, Hinesville, Georgia
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If you are going through hell, keep going." ~Winston Churchill

#35080 Poetry
By Anonymous