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The Ocean Called Lust
By spudbud GOLD
Newton, Kansas

Your love swept me out to sea, and pulled me under the waves. I try to escape, but sink from all these binding weights. I’m drowning in the ocean called Lust, and I can no longer...
spudbud GOLD, Newton, Kansas
19 articles 4 photos 41 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Have they not been made such a fool in their squalor?<br /> <br /> For they desired a sign and sought for the wise<br /> <br /> When the precursor of life was right in front of their eyes&quot; - Wolves at the Gate

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Memory Lane
By Squint7 BRONZE
Pequannock, New Jersey
Squint7 BRONZE, Pequannock, New Jersey
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Because, he said, &quot;I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I&#039;ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you&#039;d forget me.&rdquo;

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Muses
By Echinacea8 GOLD
Richmond, Virginia
Echinacea8 GOLD, Richmond, Virginia
17 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Somebody said that it couldn&#039;t be done, but he with a chuckle replied that maybe it couldn&#039;t [and maybe it shouldn&#039;t], but he wouldn&#039;t be the one to say so until he tired&quot; - Edgar Albert Guest

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Desiring A Change of Company
By Echinacea8 GOLD
Richmond, Virginia
Echinacea8 GOLD, Richmond, Virginia
17 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Somebody said that it couldn&#039;t be done, but he with a chuckle replied that maybe it couldn&#039;t [and maybe it shouldn&#039;t], but he wouldn&#039;t be the one to say so until he tired&quot; - Edgar Albert Guest

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Only Half Alive
By dwellingondreams138 PLATINUM
Albertson, New York
dwellingondreams138 PLATINUM, Albertson, New York
43 articles 8 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the lights.-HP

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Outside
By Echinacea8 GOLD
Richmond, Virginia
Echinacea8 GOLD, Richmond, Virginia
17 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Somebody said that it couldn&#039;t be done, but he with a chuckle replied that maybe it couldn&#039;t [and maybe it shouldn&#039;t], but he wouldn&#039;t be the one to say so until he tired&quot; - Edgar Albert Guest

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Letting Go
By Echinacea8 GOLD
Richmond, Virginia
Echinacea8 GOLD, Richmond, Virginia
17 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Somebody said that it couldn&#039;t be done, but he with a chuckle replied that maybe it couldn&#039;t [and maybe it shouldn&#039;t], but he wouldn&#039;t be the one to say so until he tired&quot; - Edgar Albert Guest

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Love.
By FishAndChips BRONZE
Coconut Creek, Florida
FishAndChips BRONZE, Coconut Creek, Florida
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;It takes courage to find out who you truly are.&quot; -e.e. cummings

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My Home
By Maggie Johnson BRONZE
Vienna, Virginia
Maggie Johnson BRONZE, Vienna, Virginia
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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Absorption
By ScarletArt BRONZE
Berkeley, California
ScarletArt BRONZE, Berkeley, California
1 article 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Happy everything and merry always.&quot; by my grandmother

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