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Why Do I Need Hugs?
By DebbieCupcake GOLD
Willimantic, Connecticut

Why hugs? Becase I'm broken. Why hugs? Because I KEEP on breaking. Why hugs? Because they stop my from breaking for at least a moment. Why hugs? Because I need them...
DebbieCupcake GOLD, Willimantic, Connecticut
13 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Live Long Love Life

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#37512 Poetry
Bridge Troll
By Fionab BRONZE
Nashville, Tennessee
Fionab BRONZE, Nashville, Tennessee
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
The Summer Day<br /> Who made the world?<br /> Who made the swan, and the black bear?<br /> Who made the grasshopper?<br /> This grasshopper, I mean-<br /> the one who has flung herself out of the grass,<br /> the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,<br /> who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-<br /> who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.<br /> Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.<br /> Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.<br /> I don&#039;t know exactly what a prayer is.<br /> I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down<br /> into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,<br /> how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,<br /> which is what I have been doing all day.<br /> Tell me, what else should I have done?<br /> Doesn&#039;t everything die at last, and too soon?<br /> Tell me, what is it you plan to do<br /> with your one wild and precious life?<br /> &mdash;Mary Oliver

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#37513 Poetry
Roses
By BellaGoRAWR BRONZE
Lavergne, Tennessee
BellaGoRAWR BRONZE, Lavergne, Tennessee
1 article 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
Love All. Trust Few.Do wrong to none<br /> Willam Shakespere

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#37514 Poetry
The Pain
By nliuzzo SILVER
Elmwood Park, Illinois
nliuzzo SILVER, Elmwood Park, Illinois
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;A man&#039;s true strength is not measure by what he can move or lift, it is measured by an idomitable will, and an ever loving heart.&quot; -Gandhi

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#37515 Poetry
Why????
By Giggity4456 GOLD
Sheridan, Oregon
Giggity4456 GOLD, Sheridan, Oregon
19 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The only thing to fear is fear itself.&quot;<br /> &quot;I hear it&#039;s beautiful over there...&quot;

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#37516 Poetry
Sudden Effect
By EricH PLATINUM
Madison Heights, Virginia
EricH PLATINUM, Madison Heights, Virginia
23 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
And before our world goes over the brink,<br /> Teach the believers how to think.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -Philip Appleman

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#37517 Poetry
i am unwanted
By Anonymous
#37518 Poetry
breakage
By darkensme SILVER
Paris, Other
darkensme SILVER, Paris, Other
6 articles 4 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;The next time your heart floods with waves<br /> set it down on land, howling<br /> and let it run wild with the wolves.&rdquo;

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#37519 Poetry
The Rope
By Maggie15 BRONZE
Arlington, Virginia
Maggie15 BRONZE, Arlington, Virginia
2 articles 0 photos 1 comment
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#37520 Poetry
Sand Glass
By Anonymous