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#48491voted by our readers
By tsubasakura SILVER
Brooklyn, New York

First line borrowed from Charles Simic’s “Against Winter” The truth is dark under your eyelids. The wish ungranted remains in the corner Of the vacant room once filled to the...
tsubasakura SILVER, Brooklyn, New York
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I like people who put in effort, even if they&#039;re not good at it.&quot;<br /> - Mitsukuni Haninozuka


#48492 Poetry
By SweetSorrow12 GOLD
Chicago Heights, Illinois
SweetSorrow12 GOLD, Chicago Heights, Illinois
10 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
Maya Angelou: <br /> My great hope is to laugh<br /> As much as i cry to get<br /> My work done and try to<br /> Love somebody and have<br /> The courage to accept the<br /> Love in return

#48493 Poetry
By Olivia-Atlet ELITE
Dardenne Prairie, Missouri
Olivia-Atlet ELITE, Dardenne Prairie, Missouri
325 articles 10 photos 1165 comments

Favorite Quote:
"To these the past hath its phantoms,<br /> More real than solid earth;<br /> And to these death does not mean decay,<br /> But only another birth" <br /> - Isabella Banks

#48494 Poetry
By january BRONZE
Levittown, Pennsylvania
january BRONZE, Levittown, Pennsylvania
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#48495 Poetry
By Tamoha BRONZE
Kolkata, Other
Tamoha BRONZE, Kolkata, Other
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
I feel death ever pinching me by the throat, or pulling me by the back.

#48496 Poetry
By Anonymous
#48497 Poetry
By Chayle ELITE
Surprise, Arizona
Chayle ELITE, Surprise, Arizona
186 articles 3 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.&quot;

#48498 Poetry
By Anonymous
#48499 Poetry
By amb2028 GOLD
Liberty, Missouri
amb2028 GOLD, Liberty, Missouri
10 articles 4 photos 0 comments
#48500 Poetry
By eforman GOLD
Potomac, Maryland
eforman GOLD, Potomac, Maryland
12 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions&rdquo;<br /> Rainer Maria Rilke quote