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Desperation
By LittleLottie BRONZE
Plainfield, Indiana

Am I human, Who's to know? I love myself but in a way I don't.   There are ways that I despise myself; my face, my choices, me everything about me  just pure h...
LittleLottie BRONZE, Plainfield, Indiana
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
We tell ourselves stories in order to live<br /> -Joan Didion

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#370362 Poetry
The Escape of Light, the Flight of Darkness
By MarkusSinclair SILVER
Honolulu, Hawaii
MarkusSinclair SILVER, Honolulu, Hawaii
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Good poets write for their audience while great poets write for themselves&quot;<br /> -Markus Sinclair

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#370363 Poetry
Scared
By Kisaroar GOLD
Chesapeake, Virginia
Kisaroar GOLD, Chesapeake, Virginia
15 articles 3 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
I want to be the girl that always smiles; even when her heart is broken and all she wants to do is cry~

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#370364 Poetry
A Relevant Question
By Shaners BRONZE
Kennebunk, Maine
Shaners BRONZE, Kennebunk, Maine
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independance of solitude.&quot; - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#370365 Poetry
what about her?
By Anonymous
#370366 Poetry
In the Dead of Night
By NamrehsNeb PLATINUM
Ardsley, New York
NamrehsNeb PLATINUM, Ardsley, New York
20 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.&quot; 1984, George Orwell.

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#370367 Poetry
My Legacy
By Anonymous
#370368 Poetry
Let It Go
By Deepa BRONZE
Bengaluru, Other
Deepa BRONZE, Bengaluru, Other
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#370369 Poetry
tomorrow
By EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM
Flemington, New Jersey
EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM, Flemington, New Jersey
30 articles 1 photo 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.<br /> <br /> And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."<br /> -The Good Place

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#370370 Poetry
You Are Not Mine
By getsetpirouette BRONZE
Ellicott City, Maryland
getsetpirouette BRONZE, Ellicott City, Maryland
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Sadness is easier because its surrender. I say make time to dance alone with one hand waving free.&quot;

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