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#471311voted by our readers
By Lillian Rigling BRONZE
Wallingford, Connecticut

Cemetery When it’s cold on lonely days I like to walk to the cemetery. Put footsteps in the clean white snow to all the stones unvisited. Walk over the dead, toes against...
Lillian Rigling BRONZE, Wallingford, Connecticut
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

#471312 Poetry
By Annibonny DIAMOND
Evanston, Illinois
Annibonny DIAMOND, Evanston, Illinois
67 articles 38 photos 32 comments

Favorite Quote:
Sometimes life takes a path that is hard to walk on, so all you have to do is put on your hiking boots.

#471313 Poetry
By Angela_Bobe SILVER
Hallandale, Florida
Angela_Bobe SILVER, Hallandale, Florida
7 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Just because you're disordered, doesn't mean you're out of order.

#471314 Poetry
angel_of_silence PLATINUM, Cotulla, Texas
24 articles 0 photos 62 comments

Favorite Quote:
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” -Jace Wayland City of Bones

#471315 Poetry
#471316 Poetry
maeve15 PLATINUM, Brooklyn, New York
27 articles 0 photos 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde

#471317 Poetry
ShernayB. DIAMOND, Southfield, Michigan
62 articles 1 photo 881 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Some things will never change"---Tupac

#471318 Poetry
By Livvie GOLD
Plainfield, Illinois
Livvie GOLD, Plainfield, Illinois
15 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Music screams the words we&#039;re all to afraid to speak.<br /> Life isn&#039;t about waiting for the storm to pass, it&#039;s about learning to dance in the rain.

#471319 Poetry
By Daniel_47 GOLD
Mililani, Hawaii
Daniel_47 GOLD, Mililani, Hawaii
12 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Youth has its drawbacks -- because we don&#039;t see enough of the world to know enough about ourselves when we&#039;re young. There&#039;s something to be said for innocence and optimism.&quot; ~ Steve Wagenseller

#471320 Poetry
By Dreaming_Out_Loud PLATINUM
Holden, Massachusetts
Dreaming_Out_Loud PLATINUM, Holden, Massachusetts
29 articles 14 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That&#039;s why it is called the present.&quot;