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#3161voted by our readers
By TheBermuda BRONZE
NYC, New Jersey

One day I picked up a stray dream Limping in an alleyway Barking and yapping and begging me To take it home and play. Since I was dumb or young or both, I couldn’t let...
TheBermuda BRONZE, NYC, New Jersey
3 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"It is good to work hard and live long and then be thanked." -Akira Kurosawa's Dreams


#3162 Poetry
By Allons-ypoet GOLD
Medford, New Jersey
Allons-ypoet GOLD, Medford, New Jersey
10 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much, he died every night to let her breathe...&quot; -Unknown author<br /> &quot;Sad is happy for deep people...&quot; -Sally Sparrow of Dr.Who

#3163 Poetry
By Anonymous
Rupanshi Chitransh BRONZE,
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#3165 Poetry
By EBarb PLATINUM
Seneca, South Carolina
EBarb PLATINUM, Seneca, South Carolina
29 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don&#039;t matter and those who matter don&#039;t mind.&quot; --Dr. Seuss

#3166 Poetry
By NorthVelvet BRONZE
Pontianak, Other
NorthVelvet BRONZE, Pontianak, Other
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

#3167 Poetry
By ThatsMy-Baby GOLD
White, South Dakota
ThatsMy-Baby GOLD, White, South Dakota
13 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they&#039;re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.&quot; <br /> &mdash; Marilyn Monroe

#3168 Poetry
The_Blackest_Rose PLATINUM, Joliet, Montana
31 articles 19 photos 41 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;History is the fiction we invent to convince ourselves that events are knowable and life has order and direction.&quot; --Calvin and Hobbes

#3169 Poetry
By Anonymous
#3170 Poetry
By Bubbs GOLD
Rowlands Gill, Other
Bubbs GOLD, Rowlands Gill, Other
11 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Be so good that they can&#039;t ignore you.&quot;