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#384911voted by our readers
By atemperamentalsun PLATINUM
Nyack, New York

Lying atop mossy hearts with you, looking into your quartered eyes, I could swear that the trees are dancing, swear that the river is demanding, that your skin is freck...
atemperamentalsun PLATINUM, Nyack, New York
32 articles 3 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
Any Bob Dylan quote, really.<br /> Also....&quot;Don&#039;t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you&#039;ll start missing everybody.&quot;-J.D. Salinger (The Catcher In The Rye)


#384912 Poetry
By arollercoasterthatonlygoesup GOLD
Hot Springs, Arkansas
arollercoasterthatonlygoesup GOLD, Hot Springs, Arkansas
10 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I&#039;m not saying everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.&quot; - John Green, Paper Towns.

#384913 Poetry
By jackdove13 BRONZE
Norwalk, Connecticut
jackdove13 BRONZE, Norwalk, Connecticut
2 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;A child miseducated is a child lost.&quot; -JFK

#384914 Poetry
By owlpet123 BRONZE
Loveland, Colorado
owlpet123 BRONZE, Loveland, Colorado
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time" ~Thomas Merton

#384915 Poetry
By Anonymous
#384916 Poetry
By Bibbykring BRONZE
Fort Worth, Texas
Bibbykring BRONZE, Fort Worth, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#384917 Poetry
By Mercylynn BRONZE
Coyle, Oklahoma
Mercylynn BRONZE, Coyle, Oklahoma
4 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.&quot; <br /> &mdash; Cassandra Clare<br /> &quot;The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.&quot;<br /> -Shakespeare

#384918 Poetry
By DeadSoul SILVER
Rancho, California
DeadSoul SILVER, Rancho, California
5 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
He who pass through these gates, abandon all hope- motto for my old middle school, and from Dante&#039;s Inferno

#384919 Poetry
By lulu92 GOLD
Mill Creek, Washington
lulu92 GOLD, Mill Creek, Washington
12 articles 9 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart.&quot; -Jack Johnson

#384920 Poetry
By woodland GOLD
Los Osos, California
woodland GOLD, Los Osos, California
14 articles 9 photos 3 comments