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By AndyWawrzusin SILVER
Cameron Mills, New York

Inspiration is … difficult. Inspiration, strike me. Writing poems is hard without, Inspiration. Inspiration is… coming to me. Inspiration comes as the wind blows....
AndyWawrzusin SILVER, Cameron Mills, New York
5 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."


Poetry
By Anonymous
Zazawish777 GOLD, KC, MO, Missouri
16 articles 2 photos 100 comments

Favorite Quote:
life isn't passing me by, it's trying to run me over!

Poetry
By Philosophe BRONZE
Chino Hills, California
Philosophe BRONZE, Chino Hills, California
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can&#039;t see it, it can&#039;t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.<br /> <br /> &quot;More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have &quot;lost&quot;. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.<br /> <br /> &quot;Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in &quot;Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There&#039;s a frood who really knows where his towel is.&quot; (Sass: know, be aware of, meet; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)&quot;<br /> &mdash;<br /> The Hitch-hiker&rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy

JordanA PLATINUM, Pottsville, Pennsylvania
26 articles 14 photos 2 comments
Poetry
By Poodlesrock BRONZE
Rockford, Michigan
Poodlesrock BRONZE, Rockford, Michigan
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
Poetry
By Philosophe BRONZE
Chino Hills, California
Philosophe BRONZE, Chino Hills, California
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can&#039;t see it, it can&#039;t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.<br /> <br /> &quot;More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have &quot;lost&quot;. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.<br /> <br /> &quot;Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in &quot;Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There&#039;s a frood who really knows where his towel is.&quot; (Sass: know, be aware of, meet; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)&quot;<br /> &mdash;<br /> The Hitch-hiker&rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy

Poetry
By jphelan GOLD
Peoria, Arizona
jphelan GOLD, Peoria, Arizona
12 articles 0 photos 1 comment
Poetry
By Alfilisara DIAMOND
Peoria, Arizona
Alfilisara DIAMOND, Peoria, Arizona
68 articles 5 photos 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
A word to the wise is unnecessary. It&#039;s the stupid ones that need the advice. -Bill Cosby

laurelli BRONZE, Powell, Tennessee
4 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot; If we couldn&#039;t laugh. we would all go crazy&quot; -Jimmy Buffett