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Daily Lit Deviations for April21st, 2011
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Poetry
Featured by: Maudlin-Mandolin
AuroraPlease, keep this quiet,
As I'd rather it not heard,
Nor spoken. Lest, these words
Get broken and end up a mess.
I digress;
I barely remember when the stars -
Our stars -
Weren't tainted by the clouds. Or our heads.
What it was like when my mouth was untied.
And honestly, time after time,
I'm much less surprised.
Don't let your hands gather and bend,
And rest under your chin out of hate -
Or mine may have no place.
I know that is what's meant,
But let's pretend we're good.
We're great.
(And yes, it's still just me and you,
And yes, I will still wait,
And yes, you've had your fun.)
Oh,
I'm sorry, how rude of me,
Would you like to say this aloud?
Allow me to stop writing,
Please initiate tongue.
Quite done?
Quite proud?
"Aurora" by LetterbombTalkspace
captures the essence between passion
and indecision, which we feel especially
when love and hate so easily coincide.
Featured by: bowie-loon123
Lie to meI smile and I'm all teeth underneath,
white bones beneath bulbous lips,
careless quips and sinking ships
when something slips.
Hair of the cat that scratched you-
it's never new but always true.
I watched it stew until it grew
into something different.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder
what does the blind man see when he holds her
and tells her his heart smolders
for her face?
Honesty as a policy
is not for me;
I could never see
eye to eye with it.
You can lie to buy my affection.
I will not try to hide my affliction
and you needn't be conflicted
when we can be so happy together.
"Lie to Me" by Leonca
is a great example how rhyme
can enhance the emotion of a poem
and make it more evocative.
Suggested by: Maudlin-Mandolin
Featured by: aelogan
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"Bending Backwards" by BandaidHeart
is a must read for anyone with a penchant
for content that's mature and
language that's brilliant.
Prose
Featured by: loqutor
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With an aptly-fitting title meaning
"fear of everything," scarletbird
paints a convincing firsthand portrayal
of schizophrenia.
Featured by: SadisticIceCream
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meldickinson shares a creepy and
perfectly detailed piece about a serial
killer who's captivating voice will
draw you in from the very first sentence.
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Okay, here goes...
Many comments have been made, many people have hauled off and jumped and are now wondering what is really going on, many tears have been cried (at least by me cuz y'all--y'all are mean. Enough said about that, it doesn't matter. I wish everyone all of the best and more.
I would like to take a few minutes to say two things:
1) Many have come through DLD and been better in this literature community for it. Dedication and hard work helped forward their already progressing talent. Not me, not Will, not Lili or any other running administrator--just dedication and hard work. We have present and former hats, badges and most of all the owners of co
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Final Words
It is with a hesitant mind and a bloated heart that I write this. DailyLitDeviations (https://www.deviantart.com/dailylitdeviations) was something that was formed out of frustration and anger. I suppose I am not surprised to see it go out that way. A young man named Brandon and I were complaining in a private chat room about how little literature was featured on dA and that we were tired of it. We both wrote several emails to the staff only to be ignored like so many quality artists out there. Eventually we knew that we had to do something or explode from frustration. And so DLD was born. I stayed up for 5 or 7 days straight. My wife hated me and my phone bill went throug
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It seems that all of you in need of seeing this tradition go on can be satisfied. I would direct you to the account of TheseKrimzonFlames (https://www.deviantart.com/thesekrimzonflames) where you will find links to a new account where his version of DLD will go on in a new and different form.
I am awaiting a journal entry from VertigoArt (https://www.deviantart.com/vertigoart) to post here with his thoughts on our closing of this particular project. It will be posted soonest.
Few know of my own love and time put into this project because few worked night and day alongside me to take care of everything possible from general administration duties to contests, to answering 100s of messages a day and soliciting everywhere p
Everyone, please hold on...
Please be advised that we are in the process of deciding what and how to do with this account by way of moving on--by "we" I mean myself, VertigoArt (https://www.deviantart.com/vertigoart), and various seniors/members that are interested in sticking with something DLD or DLD-like. Everyone's responses are being taken into consideration--even the personal attacks made on me are valued opinions. This account owns a number of points and I am considering doling them out to a group of people who would like to start-up a new group in the same vein. A group of people who are concerned with the work of the literature community and not the kudos that go with serving the community. I ha
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Right, let me start this with a huge, huge thank you for the feature ^_^ I'm chuffed and really thankful.
but
I have, have to say something. I don't think this can go on much longer, especially not now I see she's featured with me. The user 'bandaidheart', who's poem you have featured today, has taken regular chunks of poems throughout my gallery and stuck a thesaurus into them, naming them hers. Her poem that you have featured here, that she wrote three days ago, contains a stanza that is basically MINE from a poem I wrote on the 4th of March called Eulogy!
HERS:
'Look how you walk the pavement,
expecting this smoggy sky
to buckle under your wake.
Gliding as if these polluted stars
would swoon at your wink
and as if this asphalt
would fall to its knees
over you.'
MINE:
'Goodness!
The way you walk this town at night! As if
You expect the stars to swoon and drop down;
The moon to relinquish his crown and praise
You for outshining the day. '
I am at a complete loss. I can't let this girl gather credit on all of her poems that are based from mine, from this site and others. Some of them are obvious, but the fact that this is featured and the Lit Pick of the Day really takes the cake on that. I put a lot of effort and energy and love into my writing and I hate to do things like this, but it's ridiculous at best.
but
I have, have to say something. I don't think this can go on much longer, especially not now I see she's featured with me. The user 'bandaidheart', who's poem you have featured today, has taken regular chunks of poems throughout my gallery and stuck a thesaurus into them, naming them hers. Her poem that you have featured here, that she wrote three days ago, contains a stanza that is basically MINE from a poem I wrote on the 4th of March called Eulogy!
HERS:
'Look how you walk the pavement,
expecting this smoggy sky
to buckle under your wake.
Gliding as if these polluted stars
would swoon at your wink
and as if this asphalt
would fall to its knees
over you.'
MINE:
'Goodness!
The way you walk this town at night! As if
You expect the stars to swoon and drop down;
The moon to relinquish his crown and praise
You for outshining the day. '
I am at a complete loss. I can't let this girl gather credit on all of her poems that are based from mine, from this site and others. Some of them are obvious, but the fact that this is featured and the Lit Pick of the Day really takes the cake on that. I put a lot of effort and energy and love into my writing and I hate to do things like this, but it's ridiculous at best.