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Writer's Block

It's Tax Day in the U.S., a day when the mind might be too occupied with deductions and long lines at the post office to think about poetry. But let's try: what's your favorite line of poetry? Song lyrics count.

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[info]tealeyes Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
oh damn i got plenty of those! lol!

" Make me want you
make me miss you
make me wonder where you are
then forget you
girl remind me 
just who we are
we're oh so close
but yet so far."
she lives
 
Hum and Lo
[info]pussyfooting Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry


Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word, the coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
 
maytearsyellow
[info]orchidcolors Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry


"Because I have been given much, I too must give."

It's the first line from a hymn called "Because I Have Been Given Much"

I have been blessed with so much. I don't always notice what I have, and I'm...
 
fix
[info]kevins_corner Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
Here's an old poem of mine that some of you may already know.

INJUSTICE

You and I are just
Sipping our lattes
While a ragged child
Watches us from his
Home under the bridge.
 
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[info]mlstillwater Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry


Oh! oh! oh! oh! I have lots of these!

Dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay
- Robert Frost... I LOVE Robert Frost

Seasons cryin' no despair
Alligator lizards in the air
- Ventura Highway

I will be he
 
[info]serge_dandre Тема дня: Налоговик и поэзия
пусть встретится тот, с кем захочешь остаться,
с кем не сможешь уснуть, у кого на плече хорошо просыпаться.
с кем сл
 
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[info]organicmandy Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
Wake For Young Souls- Third Eye Blind

Today I found my soul
I felt it die inside of me yeah

So I turn to you
Life is like we never know
I have your face in a photo in high school
And you were alive
But that'
 
tree
[info]fuzzy_firebug Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry


I run into lyrics I love all the time, but after I read the question, these were the first that came to my mind. I love these lines, but I love the song more.

Together we fly,
Together we fall,
Together
 
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[info]un_named_beast Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
Picking a line from an actual poem would be hard but two songs come to mind really quickly

Regina Spektor's line: "Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep"

The Shins line: "Unknown quotie
 
God says
[info]ljswritersblock Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
Need something to write about and the official Writer's Block archive not cutting it? Well come on over to [info]ljswritersblock, where we have over 500 old Writer's Blocks archived! Never run out of things
 
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[info]vam_phire Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
I know theres better things out there but your my everything

its from brokencyde, the song is called still waiting for u or somethin like that/.

awsome man/
 
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[info]cmoserror1 Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
complicated, X-rated i want you bad, bad, bad.

idk its from want you bad by the offspring. I just thought its funny.

 
impact
[info]cantlovenowhore Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry


"I can take as much as you can throw, and I throw it all away"
-the cure
 
inquisitor_ani
[info]amras_martynov Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
Federal Meter missing its keeper
while laws are cited in Red.

Up went the debt and
burned us on set and
slept after eating our dead.

 
Rose
[info]fatalshadex Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
There are MANY! Here are a very few:

"A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wade around forever you will surely drown
I see what's g
 
Corpse Bride
[info]becksreid72 Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
OOOOH! Found another song line. Just a line this time.

''Take off that dress, you won't freeze.''
-Stars, One More Night

Totally awesome song and I can't get enough of that line. I don't even know why I
 
Corpse Bride
[info]becksreid72 Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
Hmm, I like this question.....

My head is full of poetry and songs, that's just the way I roll (okay, I've always wanted to say that). I have two poem lines and three song lines. Drumroll please....

Poe
 
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[info]nymphadora25 Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
Song lyrics it is - but I couldn't possibly pick one line, so I'll make it a top 10. Off the top of my head, in no particular order:

1. "Out on the road between nowhere and hell, I caught a gl
 
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[info]amhnews Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry

I Like Gibran Khalil Gibran,how about you?
 
IJ Icons
[info]vamphile Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry


they fuck you up your mum and dad
they do not mean to but they do
they fill you with the faults they had
and add some extra just for you.

also.

Dorothy Parker's Resume

Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acid Sta
 
LIVELAVALIVE - Polaroid
[info]mukuro_the_mist Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
"You're amasing just because you are"
From the song Waiting by the band Neverstore
 
strawbs
[info]bleedsweetness Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next
moment. All the immense
images in me-- the far-off, deeply-felt landscape,
cities, towers, and bridges, and unsuspected
turns i
 

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