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You Don’t Own Me
By Evellen GOLD
Cheyenne, Wyoming

I am not yours for the picking I am not food to be devoured You can’t buy me flowers and think I’m yours forever I am not a doll to be played with I am not a slave to be b...
Evellen GOLD, Cheyenne, Wyoming
10 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Remember there&#039;s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.&quot;<br /> - Scott Adams

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#8282 Poetry
Love at First Sight?
By Anonymous
#8283 Poetry
My Grandfather
By avaswen04 PLATINUM
Arlington Heights, Illinois
avaswen04 PLATINUM, Arlington Heights, Illinois
24 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”<br /> ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#8284 Poetry
Gold
By Jacob1216 BRONZE
Hartland, Wisconsin
Jacob1216 BRONZE, Hartland, Wisconsin
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"We are waiting for the long-promised invasion, so are the fishes"-Winston Churchill (1940)

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#8285 Poetry
Writers block
By flairsister BRONZE
Littleton, Colorado
flairsister BRONZE, Littleton, Colorado
4 articles 0 photos 3 comments
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#8286 Poetry
The Stone Hedge
By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
LOITERING with a vacant eye<br /> Along the Grecian gallery,<br /> <br /> And brooding on my heavy ill,<br /> <br /> I met a statue standing still.<br /> <br /> Still in marble stone stood he,<br /> And stedfastly he looked at me.<br /> <br /> &lsquo;Well met,&rsquo; I thought the look would say,<br /> <br /> &lsquo;We both were fashioned far away;<br /> <br /> We neither knew, when we were young,<br /> <br /> These Londoners we live among.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> <br /> Still he stood and eyed me hard,<br /> <br /> An earnest and a grave regard:<br /> <br /> &lsquo;What, lad, drooping with your lot?<br /> <br /> I too would be where I am not.<br /> <br /> I too survey that endless line<br /> Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.<br /> <br /> Years, ere you stood up from rest,<br /> <br /> On my neck the collar prest;<br /> <br /> Years, when you lay down your ill,<br /> <br /> I shall stand and bear it still.<br /> Courage, lad, &rsquo;tis not for long:<br /> <br /> Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> So I thought his look would say;<br /> <br /> And light on me my trouble lay,<br /> <br /> And I slept out in flesh and bone<br /> Manful like the man of stone.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -A.E. Housman

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#8287 Poetry
This Generations Love
By dopechickdee__ SILVER
Miami`, Florida
dopechickdee__ SILVER, Miami`, Florida
6 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.&quot;

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#8288 Poetry
Ghetto Rose
By meosha111 BRONZE
Riverdale, Maryland
meosha111 BRONZE, Riverdale, Maryland
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#8289 Poetry
Lost Boy...
By Anonymous
#8290 Poetry
Stranger
By daking666 SILVER
Union City, New Jersey
daking666 SILVER, Union City, New Jersey
8 articles 4 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
its not the years in your life, but the life in your years because life is like a coin you can spend it any way u want, but you can only spend it once.

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