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#468921voted by our readers
By always_tomorrow GOLD
Sacramento, California

Hair, tangled in the wind. Cheeks, painted with black and stained red from the dust being kicked up by my feet. We pound furiously on the ground, dancing in time...
always_tomorrow GOLD, Sacramento, California
10 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Don't dwell on the shores of your troubles, else the tide might come in and you'll start drowning.


Shraboni Sarkar BRONZE,
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#468923 Poetry
By Anonymous
#468924 Poetry
lara starr BRONZE, Middleburgh, New York
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
Abirdwithoutwings PLATINUM, Medford, Oregon
31 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.

#468926 Poetry
By FaithSnyder16 ELITE
Metamora, Ohio
FaithSnyder16 ELITE, Metamora, Ohio
180 articles 8 photos 97 comments

Favorite Quote:
Write what you know, and dream of. - Jane Austen<br /> People throw rocks at things that shine - Taylor Swift<br /> Just Keep Swimming! Just Keep Swimming! - Ellen DeGengeres as Dory

ghummanonfire GOLD, Lahore, Other
10 articles 1 photo 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
A coward dies a million times. A courageous man only dies once.

#468928 Poetry
By Anonymous
#468929 Poetry
By estherhoran__ GOLD
Bell Gardens, California
estherhoran__ GOLD, Bell Gardens, California
10 articles 0 photos 24 comments

Favorite Quote:
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God&#039;s handwriting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

#468930 Poetry
By laceandcoffee PLATINUM
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
laceandcoffee PLATINUM, Rio Rancho, New Mexico
21 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We make up horrors to help us escape from the real ones.&quot;- Stephen King<br /> &quot;But I don&#039;t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry. I want danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.&quot;- Aldous Huxley