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#10531voted by our readers
By Rawad BRONZE
Beit Chabab, Other

Behind these eyes lies an ocean of blood and loathing Behind these eyes stands the warrior who has borne the slaughtering Behind these eyes lives a vine, scathed and torn into in...
Rawad BRONZE, Beit Chabab, Other
2 articles 1 photo 19 comments

Favorite Quote:
"The self-same well from which our laughter rises was often times filled with our tears." - Kahlil Gibran


#10532 Poetry
By MeeSoh SILVER
APO AP, Other
MeeSoh SILVER, APO AP, Other
5 articles 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;everything extraneous has burned away<br /> this is how burning feels in the fall<br /> of the final year not like leaves in a blue<br /> October but as if the skin were a paper lantern<br /> full of trapped moths beating their fired wings...&quot; -Paul Monette

#10533 Poetry
By ladyharmonia SILVER
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
ladyharmonia SILVER, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
6 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
valar morghulis

#10534 Poetry
By Rene_wise17 BRONZE
Henderson, Texas
Rene_wise17 BRONZE, Henderson, Texas
4 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Life is not about surviving the storm, it&#039;s about learning to dance in the rain.&quot;

#10535 Poetry
#10536 Poetry
L_Carshell BRONZE, Jackson, Michigan
3 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
The true defintion of yourself is never finished. -L_Carshell

#10537 Poetry
By ijustbeolivia GOLD
Greensboro, North Carolina
ijustbeolivia GOLD, Greensboro, North Carolina
11 articles 16 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Man has his will- but woman has her way&quot; Oliver Wendell Holmes

#10538 Poetry
By thumpR8221 GOLD
Moriarty, New Mexico
thumpR8221 GOLD, Moriarty, New Mexico
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. <br /> Thomas Jefferson

#10539 Poetry
By AbigailA BRONZE
Tarboro, North Carolina
AbigailA BRONZE, Tarboro, North Carolina
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
I am and always will be the optimist. The hope for far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams.

#10540 Poetry
By StateOfNirvana BRONZE
Trenton, New Jersey
StateOfNirvana BRONZE, Trenton, New Jersey
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
I&#039;d rather be in the way than out of the picture - Johnnie Rae