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By redeemed_love GOLD
Houghton, Michigan

She closes her eyes and starts to pray Her world’s crashing down around her Clutching her siblings close to her Praying His voice would drown out the sound Of their house comi...
redeemed_love GOLD, Houghton, Michigan
10 articles 16 photos 19 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood. We write to understand." C.S Lewis


#217122 Poetry
By kauilani SILVER
Highland Village, Texas
kauilani SILVER, Highland Village, Texas
7 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
try to forget love because love's forgotten me.

#217123 Poetry
By Rose_13 PLATINUM
Farmington, New Mexico
Rose_13 PLATINUM, Farmington, New Mexico
40 articles 0 photos 26 comments

Favorite Quote:
If you try and teach a fish to climb a tree, it will live it's life forever thinking that it is dumb. ~Albert Einstein

#217124 Poetry
CorinneTheCow DIAMOND, Rigaud, Other
94 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
So close yet so far

#217125 Poetry
By ascharff GOLD
Nashotah, Wisconsin
ascharff GOLD, Nashotah, Wisconsin
19 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#217126 Poetry
By KinsDykstra BRONZE
Shlebyville, Michigan
KinsDykstra BRONZE, Shlebyville, Michigan
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#217127 Poetry
Nelly_Superman SILVER, Park City, Utah
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Everything happens for a reason

#217129 Poetry
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

#217130 Poetry
By baythebae GOLD
Lincoln, Nebraska
baythebae GOLD, Lincoln, Nebraska
11 articles 5 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I came, I saw, I conquered.&quot; -Julius Caesar