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#1431voted by our readers
By its-ellen BRONZE
Fort Worth, Texas

you keep telling me to make a promise to myself but if I do ian gon keep it I gotta make promises to everybody else hopin they don't drop it all and leave it I put too much tru...
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

#1433 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]

#1435 Poetry
By Anonymous
#1436 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

#1437 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

#1438 Poetry
By IreneD BRONZE
Oxford, Mississippi
IreneD BRONZE, Oxford, Mississippi
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I've worked on my weaknesses, I made them my strengths."

Rune DIAMOND, Tama, Iowa
58 articles 0 photos 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.<br /> — Isaiah 24:1

#1440 Poetry
By Ky74 GOLD
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Ky74 GOLD, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
15 articles 24 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
*-dont waste happiness-*