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#92681voted by our readers
five velvet ounces and a bar of soap
By laurenz GOLD
Phoenix, Arizona

passenger asterisk with an undefined slope peripheral glove on the nighttime lamppost damaged tomato behind the key lime pie write out your apologies in flavored ink lick the...
laurenz GOLD, Phoenix, Arizona
12 articles 11 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Writing is not a job, something you do. It’s something you are, something you can’t not be. Being a writer is … about being so bewitched by language that writing seems real, and life by comparison feels like a dream." ~ Adair Lara

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#92682 Poetry
Deny it until the end
By Bexbeckham PLATINUM
Ohio, Ohio
Bexbeckham PLATINUM, Ohio, Ohio
24 articles 0 photos 4 comments
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#92683 Poetry
Reply
By FaithSnyder16 ELITE
Metamora, Ohio
FaithSnyder16 ELITE, Metamora, Ohio
180 articles 8 photos 97 comments

Favorite Quote:
Write what you know, and dream of. - Jane Austen<br /> People throw rocks at things that shine - Taylor Swift<br /> Just Keep Swimming! Just Keep Swimming! - Ellen DeGengeres as Dory

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#92684 Poetry
A Solitary Flame
By Calyps0 GOLD
Bethel, Connecticut
Calyps0 GOLD, Bethel, Connecticut
15 articles 12 photos 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Love is just a word until you find someone who gives it a definition.&quot;

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#92685 Poetry
The Monster
By theMOONandStars BRONZE
Somewhere, Other
theMOONandStars BRONZE, Somewhere, Other
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#92686 Poetry
Sixteen But I Feel Twenty Two
By _Becky BRONZE
Laurel, Maryland
_Becky BRONZE, Laurel, Maryland
2 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I don&#039;t blame you for being you. But you can&#039;t blame me for hating it.&quot;<br /> &quot;The eyes are the windows to the soul.&quot;

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#92687 Poetry
SIJO poem
By tbik23 SILVER
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
tbik23 SILVER, Pewaukee, Wisconsin
7 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#92688 Poetry
Wall Street is a Wall for the Poor
By EternallyCreative SILVER
Union City, New Jersey
EternallyCreative SILVER, Union City, New Jersey
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Truth is beauty, and beauty truth&quot; -John Keats (Ode to a Grecian Urn)

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#92689 Poetry
Runaway Girl
By Tamazeen BRONZE
Newtown, Pennsylvania
Tamazeen BRONZE, Newtown, Pennsylvania
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#92690 Poetry
Our language
By Devocean BRONZE
Scituate, Massachusetts
Devocean BRONZE, Scituate, Massachusetts
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Sometimes I miss being sick<br /> The grimiest part of me wishes I had stayed<br /> In that familiar city of grey and mental illness<br /> and whatever the opposite of healing is<br /> Where there was nothing to laugh about<br /> but plenty to write about<br /> -Blythe Baird

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