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#89071voted by our readers
By Anonymous

One day, I dropped my flipped smiles into the sea, and they became waves. The water grew stormy, in different shades of blue. Different shades of sadness. The sea weeps. Now, ev...

#89072 Poetry
By Anonymous
#89073 Poetry
By courtney whitaker BRONZE
New York, New York
courtney whitaker BRONZE, New York, New York
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#89074 Poetry
By sarahdee GOLD
Swansea, Illinois
sarahdee GOLD, Swansea, Illinois
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute--life or truth or beauty--of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good."

#89075 Poetry
Matins MAG
By aroseisaroseisarose BRONZE
New Canaan, Connecticut
aroseisaroseisarose BRONZE, New Canaan, Connecticut
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#89076 Poetry
By Tyler S BRONZE
Rochester, New York
Tyler S BRONZE, Rochester, New York
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#89077 Poetry
By Nick540 SILVER
Ridgeland, South Carolina
Nick540 SILVER, Ridgeland, South Carolina
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#89078 Poetry
By Bleu... BRONZE
Austin, Texas
Bleu... BRONZE, Austin, Texas
3 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
F.I.S.H

#89079 Poetry
By tkj8769 SILVER
Bradenton, Florida
tkj8769 SILVER, Bradenton, Florida
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"What's more important? What we become or how we become it?" Lucas Scott, "One Tree Hill"

#89080 Poetry
maxicat SILVER, Tirana, Other
5 articles 1 photo 1 comment