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#141631voted by our readers
Freezing.
By maelstrom14 GOLD
Oak Habor, Washington

Thoughts like ice pierce my soul Threatening to swallow me whole They come from to and fro Where the go next no one knows
maelstrom14 GOLD, Oak Habor, Washington
14 articles 0 photos 63 comments

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let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments...etc

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#141632 Poetry
Love and Pain
By Lexington99 BRONZE
Waterville, Maine
Lexington99 BRONZE, Waterville, Maine
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Not all who wander are lost

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#141633 Poetry
Under the Covers, Armed With a Light
By sleepyloon BRONZE
Wilsonville, Oregon
sleepyloon BRONZE, Wilsonville, Oregon
2 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
Power is the ability not to have to please.<br /> --Elizabeth Janeway Writer

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#141634 Poetry
When the Time Comes
By WingedSilhouette13 BRONZE
Pennsauken, New Jersey
WingedSilhouette13 BRONZE, Pennsauken, New Jersey
4 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;No matter what happens in life, be good to people, being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.&quot;- Taylor Swift<br /> &quot;No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.&quot;- Randy Pausch

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#141635 Poetry
The lantern
By Valor GOLD
Hawthorne, California
Valor GOLD, Hawthorne, California
15 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Look again at that dot. That&#039;s here. That&#039;s home. That&#039;s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every &quot;superstar,&quot; every &quot;supreme leader,&quot; every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.<br /> <br /> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.<br /> <br /> Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.<br /> <br /> The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.<br /> <br /> It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we&#039;ve ever known.&rdquo; <br /> ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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#141636 Poetry
Late poem
By Anonymous
#141637 Poetry
The Good; The Bad; and The Numb
By Anonymous
#141638 Poetry
untitled
By apb13 GOLD
Hartland, Wisconsin
apb13 GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
15 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#141639 Poetry
confusing poetry
By alexzandra SILVER
Monte Vista, Colorado
alexzandra SILVER, Monte Vista, Colorado
5 articles 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
if it cant be done alone, it can be done together

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#141640 Poetry
Tractable
By CocoBelle BRONZE
New Orleans, Louisiana
CocoBelle BRONZE, New Orleans, Louisiana
3 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
your biggest mistake is to be afraid of making mistakes!

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