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By be-positive SILVER
Tenafly, New Jersey

She was once a beautiful girl golden hair that bounced by her shoulders every time she took a step. When she walked by, you could smell her strawberry-banana perfume. Her...
be-positive SILVER, Tenafly, New Jersey
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Believe in yourself"


#76572 Poetry
BreeKlineShwester BRONZE, Renton, Washington
2 articles 9 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
And in that prison cage may be only you, but since shadows lurked its only true to assume, but I may have been the darkness or I could've been the guard, could've been most anything in that dark room. but that fear would drive many insane, so I stay as the shadow, because even as the smoke from a candle twists and turns up and up into a wisp it never leave, only disappears, but as those eyes may not hide, there is something behinds those other eyes, and pain and grief is flooding in once you see secrets within that deep silent glare. but in this time I do see, I and the darkness made flesh, cause if that darkness is over used and over thrown, it needs something else to hide its secrets, to hide its pain, and while it does not help me, I understand what it is to let free, and now I am the darkness I never meant to be in that safe dark cell, was ONLY me

#76573 Poetry
By guardlover234 BRONZE
Emerald Isle, North Carolina
guardlover234 BRONZE, Emerald Isle, North Carolina
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#76574 Poetry
By wicked13 GOLD
North Pekin, Illinois
wicked13 GOLD, North Pekin, Illinois
11 articles 1 photo 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." -Eleanoor Roosevelt

#76575 Poetry
By Isabellaf1 BRONZE
New City, New York
Isabellaf1 BRONZE, New City, New York
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#76576 Poetry
By TrialKasai GOLD
Partlow, Virginia
TrialKasai GOLD, Partlow, Virginia
15 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
I'm not special, I'm just limited edition.

#76577 Poetry
By Anonymous
#76578 Poetry
By SheisWriting BRONZE
Manhattan, New York
SheisWriting BRONZE, Manhattan, New York
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Things change, Break and Fall Apart.....But we are still standing through it all.

#76579 Poetry
By IrisGF DIAMOND
Birmingham, Alabama
IrisGF DIAMOND, Birmingham, Alabama
55 articles 0 photos 5 comments
#76580 Poetry
By LadyLazarus SILVER
Spartansburg, Pennsylvania
LadyLazarus SILVER, Spartansburg, Pennsylvania
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&#039;I&#039;m nobody, who are you?&#039;- Emily Dickinson<br /> &#039;I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.&#039;- Edgar Allan Poe