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by Namita
47 lines, 28 comments,
on May 6 12:08 PM
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The harvest moon leers at me with thin eyes and a yellow smile, but
the full moon speaks letters of wisdom and
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by zillion
122 lines, 5 comments,
on Jan 5 4:10 PM. In other
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Why do you sit there and shred your sweet wrappers
like they are merely love letters
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by zillion
71 lines, 6 comments,
on May 18 2:01 PM. In other
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by mrs. random
17 lines, 13 comments,
on May 16 11:56 PM
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i.
you carry a head heavy with stars
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by blur
15 lines, 4 comments,
on Jan 6 4:23 PM
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My stare might offend
but I only defend
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by blur
7 lines, 21 comments,
on May 19 7:44 PM. In adult
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May could set your soul on fire.
The flowers growing from the green
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by Amaia
14 lines, 6 comments,
on May 23 2:45 PM. In -
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by hilly
22 lines, 15 comments,
on May 23 10:46 PM
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I once had a boyfriend,
Who broke up with me.
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by hilly
38 lines, 6 comments,
on Mar 25 10:06 PM
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warning: blasphemy. so burn me.
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by basilisk
21 lines, 10 comments,
on May 25 9:00 PM
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by we bite
24 lines, 8 comments,
on May 26 2:55 PM
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by Macey Muse
39 lines, 8 comments,
on May 18 2:19 PM
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It's Saturday... 7:46am.
I've been waiting all morning.
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I'm flying
Through the air and I
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It's the rain,
It's the rain,
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Her long copper-colored hair
hung down her back in waves.
by CelticQueen
22 lines, 21 comments,
on Jan 27 6:31 PM
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You left your knife behind that day
And now we both know why.
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by zillion
44 lines, 10 comments,
on Jun 12 11:08 PM. In other
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by flight
29 lines, 5 comments,
on Jun 14 5:43 PM
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by Polaja
19 lines, 10 comments,
on Jun 2 5:00 AM
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I actually got this from one of my teachers towards the end of last quarter (about 9 weeks ago) and I meant to post this sooner, but I forgot about it. I don't know who originally wrote it, but I think it's really thought provoking.
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by hilly
7 lines, 17 comments,
on Jun 9 11:41 PM
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The wind creeps
beneath my sweater
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If I could push the Rewind on my life,
I would go back to the day before
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Have you forgotten electricity?
Because I haven't.
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She drifts out of my hands, smoke.
No matter what I say, she says,
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Another shooting at a school in Minnesota.
10 dead time to drag out the nursery rhyme reader
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We scraped
each other off the stairs
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It is the nature of people to desire approval, which often comes in the form of materialistic representations of achievement, which give way for a false sense of pride. Encouraged by a society engrossed by their status, in comparison to other people as well as in comparison to what they believe themselves to be capable of, pride has adopted a misleading connotation directly related to acceptance and a sort of overcoming. But if we unveil pride, expose it, we see that pride is evil as well as undeserved by most who acquire it. What allows one man the right to deal acceptance, to instill a vessel which will lead to the possibility of behavior characterized by a self declaration of superiority? And furthermore, what allows that same man to deal failure, to instill an identical vessel which will lead to the equally detrimental possibility of behavior characterized by a self declaration of inferiority? It's questions like this that cause me to reevaluate the very basis of the educational system, as well as anything that relies on it's competitive nature as a composition of it's ideals. This is not to say that skill and ability cannot be assessed, or even that they should not be assessed, but simply that rewards and punishments, mental or otherwise, should not be distributed based on these assessments. It is my firm belief that a neutral response to any such comparison would minimize the human spirits desire for approval and that pride would be a much smaller demon, if present at all.
To fully understand the characteristics and potential harm of pride, it is necessary to make a comparison between pride and confidence, which are in my opinion, two very different specimens altogether. Confidence is a belief in yourself that extends only as far as the perception of possibility in your abilities. Confidence is merely an estimation, where even when overestimated is still shameless. Pride is a resulting behavior, and therefore a behavior that is more difficult to suppress because it perceives itself in a justified manner due to success that it has already accomplished. After the possibility of your abilities has proven itself to satisfy expectations and perhaps even perform beyond those expectations, one might feel as though these achievements have granted them pride, that they are allowed that indulgence.
A person could argue that pride is not something acquired, and therefore not extinguishable. We must take into account the definition given above; "pride is a resulting behavior." Anything that occurs as a result of something else could be avoided simply by escaping the cause. But success is certainly not avoidable, people are bound to be good at some things and not so good at others. So we must accept that pride has multiple causes, the most obvious being success. But I theorize that people have different sensitivities to success, in the same way that some people have tempers, and others don't. It's certainly something inherited, but also that the impact of can be lessened by being raised in an environment that does not indulge such ideas, nor support or allow anyone to succumb to the temptation of pride.
But let us consider a few select definitions as stated by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
2. Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association.
3. Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.
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I stared at my face until it didn't make sense
When they told me how you died.
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when the indelicate
brush-strokes
by Polaja
13 lines, 12 comments,
on Jul 5 7:25 AM
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by hilly
40 lines, 4 comments,
on Jul 9 11:14 PM
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by blur
6 lines, 17 comments,
on May 21 10:49 PM
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Her neck ached
for weeks
by cricketjeff
16 lines, 10 comments,
on Jul 11 5:49 PM
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I said cautiously
can you hear me? and typed, as I am doing now
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by ellipsis
89 lines, 11 comments,
on May 19 2:59 AM
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Schulreif - ready to go to school.
by ea
13 lines, 8 comments,
on Jul 14 5:36 AM
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by Rowan
11 lines, 15 comments,
on Jul 14 8:52 AM. In Life
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This ain't no Sharon Stone crotch shot.
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by Naridill
22 lines, 103 comments,
on Jul 27 4:01 PM
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The trains
Don’t run this way
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A centerpiece on the unstable table of unmarried wives rewriting the fable
Burning her books of warm loving looks while hands on the wall
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PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!!!
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The faint glow of a lit match
toss it onto the pile of dead summer leaves
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