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Time Gathers Dust
By MargaretAnne BRONZE
Essex, Connecticut

A girl in powdered blue With flat grey eyes And thick broad shoulders Hangs on a wall She is covered in cracks And visibly aged But her youth is preserved In a timeless bo...
MargaretAnne BRONZE, Essex, Connecticut
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"...And she didn't understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn't work that way." --J.M. Barrie, "Peter Pan"

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#146382 Poetry
Hopes of a Slighted Bird
By EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM
Flemington, New Jersey
EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM, Flemington, New Jersey
30 articles 1 photo 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.<br /> <br /> And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."<br /> -The Good Place

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#146383 Poetry
My Mother Waits By The Sea
By stolenxidentity BRONZE
Shelton, Connecticut
stolenxidentity BRONZE, Shelton, Connecticut
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Life is but a grand parade, a well-played game of charades.<br /> <br /> We live to change someone else&#039;s life.<br /> <br /> Fire burning me up, desiring taking me so much higher, and leaving me home.

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#146384 Poetry
The Savage
By Michelle Fiedler SILVER
St. Paul, Minnesota
Michelle Fiedler SILVER, St. Paul, Minnesota
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#146385 Poetry
Loosing myself
By gottagetout17 SILVER
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
gottagetout17 SILVER, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
7 articles 11 photos 37 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world&quot; ~Dead Poets Society

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#146386 Poetry
Where I'm From
By Alyona SILVER
Hartland, Wisconsin
Alyona SILVER, Hartland, Wisconsin
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Never lie to someone who trusts you; Never trust someone who lies to you&quot;

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#146387 Poetry
Chestnuts
By Olivia-Atlet ELITE
Dardenne Prairie, Missouri
Olivia-Atlet ELITE, Dardenne Prairie, Missouri
325 articles 10 photos 1165 comments

Favorite Quote:
"To these the past hath its phantoms,<br /> More real than solid earth;<br /> And to these death does not mean decay,<br /> But only another birth" <br /> - Isabella Banks

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#146388 Poetry
That Guy
By krissynicole BRONZE
Brownwood, Texas
krissynicole BRONZE, Brownwood, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
Dream as youll live forever live as if youll die tomorrow

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#146389 Poetry
the writer never wished to write alone
By blvckcleopatra SILVER
San Jose, California
blvckcleopatra SILVER, San Jose, California
6 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the hearts of everyone

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#146390 Poetry
Sunsets
By SomeoneOnTheInterWeb BRONZE
Warsaw, Indiana
SomeoneOnTheInterWeb BRONZE, Warsaw, Indiana
4 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
Writing is my drug, so let me get high

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