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Passing the Baton
By liviebug66 GOLD
McMurray, Pennsylvania

I take my place on the track Ahead of me, the distance I have to run A shot is fired, the race begins My heart is racing with anticipation I grab the baton and run with the w...
liviebug66 GOLD, McMurray, Pennsylvania
10 articles 0 photos 3 comments

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

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How Many Times?
By Cuppie.Cake DIAMOND
Cuppie.Cake DIAMOND,
80 articles 0 photos 41 comments

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\&quot;I\&#039;m Not Afraid To Take A Stand, Everybody Come Take My Hand.\&quot;<br /> ~Eminem~<br /> \&quot;I Just Want You To Know, That You Deserve The Best, You\&#039;re Beautiful.\&quot;<br /> ~Lil\&#039; Wayne~<br /> \&quot;Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. What do we do...we swim swim swim.\&quot;<br /> ~Finding No~

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Looking Back.
By Sabrina_x3 BRONZE
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Sabrina_x3 BRONZE, Hazleton, Pennsylvania
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You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice.

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Ohio State Buckeyes
By DerekH. BRONZE
Grimes, Iowa
DerekH. BRONZE, Grimes, Iowa
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Yes or No, yes it is a trajedy, no your not real.
By Unimaginable BRONZE
Wellington, Florida
Unimaginable BRONZE, Wellington, Florida
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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Never look back
By Sarah_Irene. PLATINUM
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Sarah_Irene. PLATINUM, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
24 articles 0 photos 3 comments
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Oxymoron of Religious Intelligence
By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

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LOITERING with a vacant eye<br /> Along the Grecian gallery,<br /> <br /> And brooding on my heavy ill,<br /> <br /> I met a statue standing still.<br /> <br /> Still in marble stone stood he,<br /> And stedfastly he looked at me.<br /> <br /> &lsquo;Well met,&rsquo; I thought the look would say,<br /> <br /> &lsquo;We both were fashioned far away;<br /> <br /> We neither knew, when we were young,<br /> <br /> These Londoners we live among.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> <br /> Still he stood and eyed me hard,<br /> <br /> An earnest and a grave regard:<br /> <br /> &lsquo;What, lad, drooping with your lot?<br /> <br /> I too would be where I am not.<br /> <br /> I too survey that endless line<br /> Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.<br /> <br /> Years, ere you stood up from rest,<br /> <br /> On my neck the collar prest;<br /> <br /> Years, when you lay down your ill,<br /> <br /> I shall stand and bear it still.<br /> Courage, lad, &rsquo;tis not for long:<br /> <br /> Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> So I thought his look would say;<br /> <br /> And light on me my trouble lay,<br /> <br /> And I slept out in flesh and bone<br /> Manful like the man of stone.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -A.E. Housman

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Cartoons Create A Childhood
By nomvegannom BRONZE
Schuylerville, New York
nomvegannom BRONZE, Schuylerville, New York
3 articles 4 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.&rdquo;- Ai Yazawa

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The Stone Hedge
By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

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LOITERING with a vacant eye<br /> Along the Grecian gallery,<br /> <br /> And brooding on my heavy ill,<br /> <br /> I met a statue standing still.<br /> <br /> Still in marble stone stood he,<br /> And stedfastly he looked at me.<br /> <br /> &lsquo;Well met,&rsquo; I thought the look would say,<br /> <br /> &lsquo;We both were fashioned far away;<br /> <br /> We neither knew, when we were young,<br /> <br /> These Londoners we live among.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> <br /> Still he stood and eyed me hard,<br /> <br /> An earnest and a grave regard:<br /> <br /> &lsquo;What, lad, drooping with your lot?<br /> <br /> I too would be where I am not.<br /> <br /> I too survey that endless line<br /> Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.<br /> <br /> Years, ere you stood up from rest,<br /> <br /> On my neck the collar prest;<br /> <br /> Years, when you lay down your ill,<br /> <br /> I shall stand and bear it still.<br /> Courage, lad, &rsquo;tis not for long:<br /> <br /> Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> So I thought his look would say;<br /> <br /> And light on me my trouble lay,<br /> <br /> And I slept out in flesh and bone<br /> Manful like the man of stone.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -A.E. Housman

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Surrounded Yet Alone
By Patrick Carrigan BRONZE
Herriman, Utah
Patrick Carrigan BRONZE, Herriman, Utah
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