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August 18, 2010
By shunflower GOLD, Shamong, New Jersey
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shunflower GOLD, Shamong, New Jersey
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I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

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I can't get to sleep
There's so much I want to see
Hours are cherished

© Kelly H., Rome, NY

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The reason I am up until 4 in the morning every night.
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trombonegirl42 BRONZE said...
on Aug. 22 2010 at 10:54 am
trombonegirl42 BRONZE, Temperance, Michigan
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they&#039;ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.&quot; -Neil Gaiman<br /> <br /> &quot;Come with uncle,&quot; I said, &quot;and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.&quot;<br /> &quot;If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.&quot; -A Clockwork Orange

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i love it as well. i think sometimes brevity can best describe the feeling of something better than 100 words.
shunflower GOLD said...
on Aug. 20 2010 at 3:25 am
shunflower GOLD, Shamong, New Jersey
18 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
I&rsquo;m seventeen and I&rsquo;m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

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Thank you everyone for your feedback! (:
mwahxandxmwa SILVER said...
on Aug. 19 2010 at 11:57 pm
mwahxandxmwa SILVER, Melbourne, Other
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Silence is golden...duct tape is silver&quot; - a random T-shirt

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i hate that...its like the only time my brain does something except for fill an empty hole is when i want dont want it toooo! great poem you have captured a lot in your haiku! :D
Niftygrrl BRONZE said...
on Aug. 19 2010 at 11:04 pm
Niftygrrl BRONZE, Norfolk, Virginia
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&ldquo;We are all a little weird and life&#039;s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.&rdquo;- dr suess<br /> <br /> &quot;Saying &#039;I notice you&#039;re a nerd&#039; is like saying, &#039;Hey, I notice that you&#039;d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you&#039;d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?&#039; In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even &#039;lame&#039; is kind of lame. Saying &#039;You&#039;re lame&#039; is like saying &#039;You walk with a limp.&#039; Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he&#039;s done all right for himself.&quot; <br /> &mdash; John Green

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I love this!

Short sweet and I can never sleep either =]

Thesilentraven PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 19 2010 at 6:43 pm
Thesilentraven PLATINUM, Mableton, Georgia
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&quot;il piu nell&#039; uno,&quot; (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)<br /> <br /> &quot;Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality&quot; ~Emily Dickinson<br /> <br /> &quot;The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain&quot; <br /> ~Kahlil Gibran

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So well put! One reason I dislike sleep is also that life is so precious that it seems like we waste it in our unconciousness. And the brevity adds to it, that's the point of a haiku. Well done.
DiamondsIntheGrass GOLD said...
on Aug. 19 2010 at 3:06 pm
DiamondsIntheGrass GOLD, Martinsville, New Jersey
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Worry is simply a misuse of the imagination.

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nice idea... by the peom doesnt flow very well.
Shminkanator5000 SILVER said...
on Aug. 19 2010 at 9:20 am
Shminkanator5000 SILVER, Rochester, New York
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&quot;the only thing we have to fear is fear itself&quot;

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I do like it, but i think you could totally add on to it! I'd be very interested in reading a longer version. This is very good though! Check out some of my work if you have a sec!
TheOcherousRodentia PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 19 2010 at 8:35 am
TheOcherousRodentia PLATINUM, Toronto, Other
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Life is infinitely growing;<br /> It&#039;s capacity of love and fear is impossible<br /> To calculate by the means of math, or<br /> The properties of science, and to conatain<br /> Its ferious unpredictability is only a virtue<br /> That humans despire

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I like it! I think it relates to most teenagers who can`t sleep due to what you said in your poem. Keep up the good work, and can you check out some of my poems? Thanks, keep on writing!