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#191631voted by our readers
Crystal Clear
By clairbair14 GOLD
Maplewood, New Jersey

Crystal was her name But she was not crystal clear Instead she was dull and heavy, and her eyes didn’t gleam, they smoldered like smoke Stuck in a room until it chokes everyone...
clairbair14 GOLD, Maplewood, New Jersey
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

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"love is blind but friendship closes its eyes"

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#191632 Poetry
This Is There
By Cloaked SILVER
Urbana, Illinois
Cloaked SILVER, Urbana, Illinois
9 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
I'm not who I seem to be. I have unlimited masks in my room and skeletons in my closet. Get to know me. And then maybe you'll see the truth.

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#191633 Poetry
What It Is
By DiddlyBop BRONZE
Bristow, Virginia
DiddlyBop BRONZE, Bristow, Virginia
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#191634 Poetry
Happiness
By Anonymous
#191635 Poetry
Our Colossal Fallacy
By issylaxplaya6 BRONZE
Bellevue, Washington
issylaxplaya6 BRONZE, Bellevue, Washington
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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#191636 Poetry
You Are
By Not_of_This_World BRONZE
Coconut Creek, Florida
Not_of_This_World BRONZE, Coconut Creek, Florida
4 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. <br /> C. S. Lewis

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#191637 Poetry
The Balancing Beam
By Pavan GOLD
New York, New York
Pavan GOLD, New York, New York
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#191638 Poetry
My Mother's Hand
By Anonymous
#191639 Poetry
Under new jurisdiction
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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#191640 Poetry
A life
By StormDragin SILVER
Yukon, Oklahoma
StormDragin SILVER, Yukon, Oklahoma
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life&#039;s difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. MLK

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