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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.Jess C. Scott
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When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker downin tall grasses, and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests, small things recoil into silence, their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomeslight, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see witha hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind wordsunsaid, promised walksnever taken. Great souls die andour reality, bound tothem, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon theirnurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formedand informed by theirradiance, fall away. We are not so much maddenedas reduced to the unutterable ignoranceof dark, coldcaves. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and alwaysirregularly. Spaces fillwith a kind ofsoothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, neverto be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and bebetter. For they existed.Maya Angelou
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She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.Robert M. Drake
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I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.Joyce Kilmer
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Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.Robert M. Drake
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Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.Robert M. Drake
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Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.Robert M. Drake
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Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.Robert M. Drake
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A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.Robert M. Drake
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The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.Robert M. Drake
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She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.Robert M. Drake
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It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.Robert M. Drake
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If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.Robert M. Drake
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Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.Robert M. Drake
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Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.Robert M. Drake
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Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.Robert M. Drake
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I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.Robert M. Drake
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She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.Robert M. Drake
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It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.Robert M. Drake
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You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.Robert M. Drake
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Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.Robert M. Drake
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I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I?Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!Shel Silverstein
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Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.Unknown
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It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.Dejan Stojanovic
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And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd be as good, but I wouldn't, if I could. For the few that help deserve, have no need, or not the nerve, help from strangers to accept, plus from mine a few have wept. Wept from joy, or from despair, or just from my vengeful stare. Ways I have, to look at stupid, make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error, for of truth I am a bearer. Most decide I'm just a bear, mauling at them, - like I care.Will Advise
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There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.D. Antoinette Foy
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In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.Dejan Stojanovic
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods...Socrates
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I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather, bright and sunny forever.Santosh Kalwar
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Wherever I go, I meet myself.Dejan Stojanovic
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I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.Dejan Stojanovic
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Some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.Sanober Khan
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Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.Nancy B. Brewer
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We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.Dejan Stojanovic
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The world you are in —Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become lighter. The lighter the heart, the purer it is. The purer the heart, the closer to light it becomes. And the heavier the heart, The more chained to this hell It will remain.Suzy Kassem
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Es sind tausend Tropfenin einer Weltnur für uns gemacht Tausend Tropfenwenn der Himmel weintund man dennoch lachtNina Hrusa
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Between the MileI have always counted the miles. Sometimes they came quick, Other times slow. The distance between things, The way I could know. Close could feel far, And far could feel near. The miles that passed too quickly, The ones I ran out of fear. They weren’t all the same, So I had been told, The unmarked trails, And the days I was bold. Some miles went down, Spiraling so low, When I was afraid to look forward, There was nowhere to go. The sunset came fast, And the day turned to night, But the trails could be endless, If I looked at them right. Everything I knew, All I was told, The conversations left behind, The people who grew old. When the miles stretched out before me, I wanted to sew them at the seam, Looking forward and then back, Holding everything in between. .Jacqueline Simon Gunn
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...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.Sanober Khan
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LIFE - Death's Very EmissaryAbhysheq Shukla
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Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful.Abhysheq Shukla
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We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...Abhysheq Shukla
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We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and our real life is passing by, moment by moment. Life is only lived in moments: anything else is a fantasy, a lie, an illusion.Abhysheq Shukla
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Karma is a balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds. Your Which is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.Abhysheq Shukla
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Karma is the balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds. Your Which is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.Abhysheq Shukla
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We create karma by all kinds of selfish actions. The first thing we must understand is that we are psychologically asleep. It is very difficult for us to be conscious of ourselves. We are not very aware. We must come to recognize that we do not pay attention.Abhysheq Shukla
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Self-observation is simply the observation of an internal state and an external event. It is pure awareness, which gives one the ability to choose one's actions. Only by having the choice can one perform what is right.Abhysheq Shukla
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Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.Abhysheq Shukla
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Love wins when reflections win over reflexes.Abhysheq Shukla
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In the end, you will realize most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.Abhysheq Shukla
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Every person has his secret; in reverie, unbeknown to others, he finds peace, freedom, sorrow and love.Abhysheq Shukla
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All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.Nathan Reese Maher
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Love doesn't always mean rings and veils and walks down the aisle. Sometimes love means broken windows and broken hearts, and not being able to fix either. And sometimes love means telling you, there's no such thing as time in Heaven so don't rush to meet me. Stay a while, and pick, girl, the roses.Jennifer Gooch Hummer
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Words I ONCE HEARD A MAN SAY OR WAS IT SOMEWHERE I READ, OR MAYBE SOMETHING I WROTE A THOUSAND TIMES IN MY MIND. YOU GOT TO FIND YOUR OWN MEANING IN THIS WORLD. NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU CHANGED, YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY THE PRICE FOR THE THINGS YOU HAVE DONE. AS I CONTINUE ON MY JOURNEY OR WHAT SOME CALL THE LONG ROAD OF LIFE I KNOW I WILL REMEMBER THAT SPECIAL YOU.KNOWING I WILL SEE YOU FOREVER IN MY DREAMS IN THIS WORLD OR THE NEXT. .Don S. McClure
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Through the darkest hours of the nightand through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry skyand beyond galaxies I am free. Through the grimmest memoriesand past a seasons air I cannot breathe, Far beyond this mortal worldin an afterlife we shall meet.Lee Argus
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She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.Giovannie De Sadeleer
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We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.Robert M. Drake
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But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.Robert M. Drake
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Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.Robert M. Drake
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She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.Robert M. Drake
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She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.Robert M. Drake
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Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.Robert M. Drake
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I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I've died within myself and lived a thousand different lives. I too fight the same war and I too am drowning in the puddles of self-consciousness this world created.Robert M. Drake
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At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you the most.Robert M. Drake
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With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.Robert M. Drake
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She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.Robert M. Drake
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I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.Robert M. Drake
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How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you? Falling or flying towards you, losing or finding myself in you and beauty was never the word to catch all that you are. For now I know the means of the infinite and it all starts and ends with you.Robert M. Drake
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Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.Robert M. Drake
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Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.Robert M. Drake
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Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.Robert M. Drake
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I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved.Robert M. Drake
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She was completely wholeand yet never fully completeMaquita Donyel Irvin
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Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re safe. So maybe for a moment you have escaped but hear me, hear me well. Love will find you and it will leave nothing behind.Robert M. Drake
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The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.Robert M. Drake
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We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.Robert M. Drake
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With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.Roman Payne
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To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.Robert M. Drake
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I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the face of tomorrow.Robert M. Drake
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I hear my mom pray every night about how she misses me I want nothing to happen to my little brother the way it happened to me I tell my mom, Keep your head up and stay strong, because I am getting good care in heaven I worry about nothing because Jesus has my back I cry and Jesus comes and wipes my tears from my face I try to make it to the NBA in heaven I hope everyone is not worried about me I am Brandon in heaven, having fun.Michelle Kuo
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Here’s to the “so-so-ing” it. Here’s to the working since I was 14 in a smoke clouded day. Here’s to saying I could stay until the forms were faxed. Here’s to driving home past dark and dozing off the road. Here’s to no over time. Here’s to the long line to management. Here’s to ALREADY DONE THAT! Here’s to quitting, saying I’m through, saying I can’t compete for your leftover lean cuisine. Here’s to art. Here’s to freedom. Here’s to saying God gave me every penny and knowing it’s true. Here’s to the next 40 years with you. Here’s to the new.– Adrianna Stepiano .Adrianna Stepiano
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...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...Maquita Donyel Irvin
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The opening, the breaking, the falling apartis always so quick.the hurting, the healing, the putting back togetheris always too long.AVA.
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I can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.AVA.
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We get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.Ava
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Everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.AVA.
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You giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.Ava
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The hope is smallbut it is everything.Ava
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Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They only wash the mud away and make way For double rainbows and sunny daysMaquita Donyel Irvin
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...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....Maquita Donyel Irvin
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...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...Maquita Donyel Irvin
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas
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Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.ÂAtticus Poetry
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.D.h. Lawrence
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I worry there is something broken in our generation, there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.Atticus Poetry
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I drift like a cloud, Across these venerable eastern lands, A journey of unfathomable distances, An endless scroll of experiences... Lady Zhejiang here we must part, For the next province awaits my embrace. Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East, Where do you go?Tom Carter
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I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.Melody Lee
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I don't write about you because you don't deserve to be immortalised in my words. I'll leave you to float around in my mind until forgetfulness comes to take you away.J.A. ANUM
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You deserve the love your soul craves for. Don't settle.J.A. ANUM