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#3251voted by our readers
POW
By 13bookworm4596 SILVER
Mantua, Ohio

Nine desperate names scratched on a stone wall. Maggots squirmed under the toes of emaciated men, the bile always bitter at the backs of their throats.    "This is it,...
13bookworm4596 SILVER, Mantua, Ohio
7 articles 7 photos 33 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Stay gold, Ponyboy." -Johnny Cade (S.E. Hinton)
"One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory." - Louis Zamperini


#3252 Poetry
Me
By Vivi SILVER
Frisco, Texas
Vivi SILVER, Frisco, Texas
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise" - Victor Hugo

#3253 Poetry
By Afra ELITE
Kandy, Other
Afra ELITE, Kandy, Other
103 articles 7 photos 1824 comments

Favorite Quote:
"A writer must never be short of ideas."
-Gabriel Agreste- (Fictional character- Miraculous)

#3254 Poetry
#3255 Poetry
By Anonymous
#3256 Poetry
By purplecloud SILVER
Hartland, Wisconsin
purplecloud SILVER, Hartland, Wisconsin
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#3257 Poetry
Lulu3672 SILVER, Locust, North Carolina
6 articles 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Fair means everyone gets what they need and the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself” - Rick Riordan

#3258 Poetry
By this_unflower PLATINUM
Lincoln, Rhode Island
this_unflower PLATINUM, Lincoln, Rhode Island
46 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
i will never understand
why you held me
if you were afraid of warmth

you should have known
i was fire

- Rupi Kaur , the sun and her flowers

#3259 Poetry
By libraryghost PLATINUM
Lynnwood, Washington
libraryghost PLATINUM, Lynnwood, Washington
31 articles 0 photos 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
"No one really understands each other. We're all just stuck inside ourselves." Aza, Turtles All the Way Down

#3260 Poetry
SparrowSun ELITE, X, Vermont
200 articles 23 photos 1053 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It Will Be Good." (complicated semi-spiritual emotional story.)

"Upon his bench the pieces lay
As if an artwork on display
Of gears and hands
And wire-thin bands
That glisten in dim candle play." -Janice T., Clockwork[love that poem, dont know why, im not steampunk]