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#80881voted by our readers
By mmaserati2016 BRONZE
Rockfall, Connecticut

The fresh smell of sea salt The clean, white sails billowing Splashes of sea Dotting my skin Our anchor lowers Rattling chains The boat sways With each roll of a wave...
mmaserati2016 BRONZE, Rockfall, Connecticut
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."--F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


#80882 Poetry
By SageL BRONZE
Lilburn, Georgia
SageL BRONZE, Lilburn, Georgia
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#80883 Poetry
By Kbeedy BRONZE
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Kbeedy BRONZE, Arlington Heights, Illinois
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#80884 Poetry
By ParkerRobert_B SILVER
Greer, South Carolina
ParkerRobert_B SILVER, Greer, South Carolina
8 articles 0 photos 26 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see” -Mark Twain

#80885 Poetry
By TrulySoapyy GOLD
Saint Johns, Michigan
TrulySoapyy GOLD, Saint Johns, Michigan
15 articles 0 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
~"we don't cry, my love. we bleed on paper."~

#80886 Poetry
By neshkuh GOLD
Lower Mainland, Other
neshkuh GOLD, Lower Mainland, Other
18 articles 0 photos 3 comments
#80887 Poetry
By twobirdstone GOLD
Jonesboro, Arkansas
twobirdstone GOLD, Jonesboro, Arkansas
10 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
i have a heartbeat, not like a comma, but like a period, one after another, set in succession on a page; each echoing a silent finality.<br /> <br /> <br /> -- adapted from &quot;the fountainhead&quot;

#80888 Poetry
By Anonymous
#80889 Poetry
Erin326 GOLD, Spokane, Washington
18 articles 0 photos 89 comments

Favorite Quote:
The silence isn&#039;t so bad<br /> &#039;Till I look at my hands and feel sad<br /> &#039;Cause the spaces between my fingers<br /> Are right where yours fit perfectly.....

#80890 Poetry
By carattini BRONZE
Raleigh, North Carolina
carattini BRONZE, Raleigh, North Carolina
1 article 0 photos 0 comments