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#3561voted by our readers
By shimmering_stars GOLD
Fowler, Michigan

A shimmering array of candlelight; lights on the floor of a pristine world. I want so badly to take flight, but I continue to spin and twirl. The tears in my lashes are di...
shimmering_stars GOLD, Fowler, Michigan
10 articles 0 photos 14 comments

#3562 Poetry
By emilyj93 GOLD
Naperville, Illinois
emilyj93 GOLD, Naperville, Illinois
11 articles 0 photos 22 comments
#3563 Poetry
liyara GOLD, Sagar, Ohio
13 articles 1 photo 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
cohere with your soul and things will be cool.

#3564 Poetry
By superpencil BRONZE
Greenville, South Carolina
superpencil BRONZE, Greenville, South Carolina
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
TheAmatuerOne BRONZE, Bronx, New York
3 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"We are all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes" - River Phoenix

#3566 Poetry
DivyaGanguly GOLD, Kalyani, Other
18 articles 4 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
Actually,the best life you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures....

#3567 Poetry
By weebnini DIAMOND
San Diego, California
weebnini DIAMOND, San Diego, California
55 articles 3 photos 164 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Done & Over"

"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."

"People should be able to say how they feel. How they really feel. Not, you know, some words that some strangers put in their mouth."

#3568 Poetry
By Anonymous
#3569 Poetry
By Ryandawson176 BRONZE
Clawson, Michigan
Ryandawson176 BRONZE, Clawson, Michigan
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#3570 Poetry
By akell PLATINUM
Asheville, North Carolina
akell PLATINUM, Asheville, North Carolina
26 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
-Octavio Paz