Daily Literature Deviations - May 16th, 2011

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Daily Lit Deviations for May 16th, 2011


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Poetry


Featured by spoems
Without Her, Without HimWithout Her; Without Him
He sows salt on green shoots
in hopes they will be more delicious
when plucked.
She scrubs traces of him
from her heart with
steel wool and bleach.
He hums tunes of love songs
she wrote to him but forgets
the words.
She takes pictures off the wall
leaving dark rectangles of
unfaded wallpaper.
He builds futures out of
skeletons of extinct sandcastles
in the rain.
She burns every letter that came
on the same day as his
just in case.
He bites a chain-link fence
until his teeth taste
like rust.
She folds his shirts
into origami fish and releases
them into the ocean.
He builds Shinto shrines around
her portrait and lights incense
to Hindu gods.
She pops cherry tomatoes
between her teeth and spits seeds
on paper plates.
He picks her hair from
his brush and stuffs it
in a matchbox.
She writes tender epitaphs
on note cards for loved ones
she doesn’t know.
He cries dark ink
on the blank pages
of her stationary.
She kisses her finger
to remember the feeling
of his l

Without Her, Without Him by Mahi-Fish

This is a poem that burns with
the indefatigable conviction of a witness,
hums with the eloquence a poet's final love letter.


Featured by apple-dark
inwardit is better to die
in the autumn
it is less painful:
to go through
the rain and grey
to God

inward by mokira

When the Romantics would write covertly,
disguising emotions with nature to protect the
delicate sensibilities of the poetic audience
of their day, this was not what they had in mind.  
Soft, dark, sweet, and, my gut tells me, true.


Prose


Featured by: Kitri-du-Lac

Mature Content


"Backyard Guerrilla" by laurotica

The stark and cold tone of this piece
gives a grim realism to its fictional subject.
The lack of emotion portrayed by the characters
allows the reader to invest in their ability to
have survived, and continue to do so. By avoiding
melodrama, the piece becomes an interesting
commentary on modern warfare.


Featured by: SadisticIceCream
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"The Catalyst" by DarknessAngel13

DarknessAngel13 presents a bleak version
of the future, when much of the world is enslaved.
There remains, however, one glimmer of hope--one
person who will be the catalyst for a revolution.


Foreign Language


Feartured by kamy-ska
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Receta by allbeautysad

This is a lovely poem about the cooking
recipe for sleep. A short poem about children
and their wonderful memories.




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this is pretty awesome