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By raimondilina BRONZE
Oswego, Illinois

Bananas at Midnight My head likes to whisper to me all the things that I can never go back to. She never lets me forget that Time doesn’t just pass That it will always li...
raimondilina BRONZE, Oswego, Illinois
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

#992 Poetry
By paytonhudgins GOLD
Valdosta, Georgia
paytonhudgins GOLD, Valdosta, Georgia
15 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"Do those things which you judge to be beautiful, though in doing them you should be without renown; for the rabble is a bad judge of a good thing." Pythagorean saying of Demophilus

#993 Poetry
By per PLATINUM
Spartanburg, South Carolina
per PLATINUM, Spartanburg, South Carolina
40 articles 11 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde

#994 Poetry
By Methmi PLATINUM
Colombo, Other
Methmi PLATINUM, Colombo, Other
49 articles 14 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
“When things get hard, stop for awhile and look back and see how far you’ve come. Don’t forget how rewarding it is. You are the most beautiful flower, more than anyone else in this world.”

#995 Poetry
By its-ellen BRONZE
Fort Worth, Texas
its-ellen BRONZE, Fort Worth, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
the past is not the present, the present is not the future, but the future is the present. enjoy your life, god can take you at any moment and you dont want to die in regret. - myself

outspoken_poet SILVER, Logan, Utah
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been."<br /> - John Greenleaf Whittier

#997 Poetry
BlindlyBecomingBella PLATINUM, Grapevine, Texas
36 articles 2 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."<br /> -Wuthering Hights

SparrowSun ELITE, X, Vermont
200 articles 23 photos 1053 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It Will Be Good." (complicated semi-spiritual emotional story.)<br /> <br /> "Upon his bench the pieces lay<br /> As if an artwork on display<br /> Of gears and hands<br /> And wire-thin bands<br /> That glisten in dim candle play." -Janice T., Clockwork[love that poem, dont know why, im not steampunk]

#999 Poetry
Crazywolfiegirl2 PLATINUM, Kington, Other
26 articles 3 photos 284 comments

Favorite Quote:
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. —Rachel Carson

#1000 Poetry
Itsmaanya_25 PLATINUM, Indore, Other
32 articles 1 photo 45 comments

Favorite Quote:
It's Okay to have butterflies in your stomach, as long as you make them fly in formation