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Daily Literature Deviations for May 22nd, 2013

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Daily Lit Deviations for May 22nd, 2032


We are proud to feature today's Daily Literature Deviations!
You can show your support by :+favlove:ing this News Article.
Please comment and :+fav: the features and congratulate the artists!


:pointr: For all of the featured artists: If you receive a DD for one
of your pieces featured by DLD please note `Kneeling-Glory.
We will include you and your piece in a special recognition news article. :pointl:

Poetry


Suggested by: *Concora
Featured by: =TwilightPoetess
Peach JuiceA cloud god
spilled his sun-glass of
peach juice.
Across the sky,
the orange frothed into
white strands,
like heavenly Morse code.

The solar drink thinned
into a beard-grey
until I'm in a
glass-black sea
and the moon is full,
an uneaten celestial crisp.
Peach Juice by ~AyeAye12

From the suggester: Quirky,
majestic imagery makes this a
delightfully intriguing piece to read.


Featured by: =SilverInkblot
i'm in love with a girl with six months to livei'm in love with a girl with six months to live
she did not tell me so
i knew from the hair i found in the bath
i knew from the emptiness when i held her

i knew from the wardrobe two sizes too big
i saw it in her face
she looked so thin, so exhausted
she looked so             different

i'm in love with a girl with two months to live
i live in the hospital
my days pass with hand-holding, saying
"it's going to be okay" (to me)
it's going to be a rough night again

i'm in love with a girl with one month to live
i can hardly bear to see her
but she's still
as beautiful as she always was
i'm in love with a girl with six months to live by ~TaiHizake

A melancholy piece that
will strike a chord with
anyone that's ever had
a loved one in the hospital.


Featured by =LadyofGaerdon
Extinct language.I fill myself with dead tongues,
rising through my gut and singing
streaming in a dancing line from my mouth.

Perhaps fictional tongues,
words wrapped in a world to never
exist.
Kings and elves
fantasy of the highest order.

Speak.
The words of long dead men
imagined men
A history vibrating through
the patterns of my mouth
a slow dance of my butchered inflection.

To know my words echo
the sentiments
of ages now come to pass.
Extinct language. by ~dextroannie

Every language, whether it came
to be organically or creatively,
is unique, and each contains its
own history and stories, just
waiting for us to discover them.


Prose


Suggested by: =TwilightPoetess
Featured by: =SilverInkblot
I thought I knew my death.I thought I knew my death. He grabbed my heart one day and squeezed tightly, banded fear wrapping its way around my body and terrorizing the air from my lungs. "Not..Like..This.." I would gasp, thinking that there must be some better way out. I would start to beg but it would soon be over. He'd release me and my body would give up. There would be nothing left to say.

I thought I knew my death. She would slip into the shadows some months before I thought my time was up. She would slowly take my memories for my own, replacing them with child's talk and nonsensical things. "Oh please, won't somebody help me." It would be a rhetoric, although I
I thought I knew my death by ^Kaz-D

Suggester: "This flash fiction
piece by ^Kaz-D takes an old
phrase and reshapes it, makes
it into something beautiful."


Suggested by: =schongslipper
Featured by: =SilverInkblot
My Paper Mache PersonLiving with you it felt like I could shatter at any moment. Even though I was the one who chose to stay I couldn't stand to watch you break over and over again. You were like the paper Mache people I made as a kid, too heavy to support your own weight. The funny thing is I never did learn my lesson and I would try again and again unable to make them perfect just like I could never fix you. Maybe its because we're both broken inside the same way mom was when brother never took his first breaths. It probably would have been better if we had never met. But, I wouldn't want to forget. Me and you we both filled our bodies with poison until we coul
My Paper Mache Person by ~dandiliondrifter
Suggester: "This piece revolves
around a metaphor and an
enticing style. It delivers a
truth a lot of us need to hear."



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~starell 5 days ago
:hug: Thank you so very much for featuring me!
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~Bluebellwriter7 May 14, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you so much for the feature!
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~Cobrateen May 12, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Thanks for featuring my piece, I very much appreciate it!
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~slurpeesncigarettes May 6, 2013
Super excited for the feature!! Thanks guys!!
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~ZetsubouDahlia Mar 24, 2013  New member
Thank you very much! The fact that I'm able to express myself through tanka, and the fact that there are people who appreciate my work - it really makes my heart warm! Once more, thank you. :)
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