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#3901voted by our readers
By Lucy-Agnes PLATINUM
Clarksville, Ohio

I drag myself and wiggle Along each tiresome inch; I squeeze myself and wriggle Through many a stony pinch. At last I've covered a foot of ground, And oh! my foot is sore;...
Lucy-Agnes PLATINUM, Clarksville, Ohio
22 articles 0 photos 53 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world." - Justice Antonin Scalia


#3902 Poetry
By custosimago DIAMOND
Kensington, Maryland
custosimago DIAMOND, Kensington, Maryland
72 articles 0 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
Hell is going through Life without knowing Love

#3903 Poetry
By kate_anne PLATINUM
Cedartown, Georgia
kate_anne PLATINUM, Cedartown, Georgia
41 articles 7 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
-Stephen King

#3905 Poetry
By audtnec BRONZE
Perth, Western Australia, Other
audtnec BRONZE, Perth, Western Australia, Other
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#3906 Poetry
By JennaBeaSwimma SILVER
High Point, North Carolina
JennaBeaSwimma SILVER, High Point, North Carolina
9 articles 13 photos 21 comments
#3907 Poetry
oxygenwriter51 PLATINUM, Steinbach, Other
20 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"Not all who wander are lost." - JRR Tolkien

#3908 Poetry
By Anonymous
#3909 Poetry
By Cassidy44 BRONZE
Orangevale, California
Cassidy44 BRONZE, Orangevale, California
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#3910 Poetry
By Accidental_Ashlee GOLD
Belleville, Michigan
Accidental_Ashlee GOLD, Belleville, Michigan
15 articles 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"The advice to 'hold on to your dreams' is all well and good, but there comes a point when holding on to your dreams becomes unhelpful and even unhealthy. life can pass you by while you are clinging on to a wish that can never be - or ought never to be fulfilled. Your deepest yearning is for something impossible Desperately sad though it is that you have been deprived of your dreams, know that siting and gazing on a vision of what you can never have, will only damage you and your heart."