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Prose
featured by Kitri-du-Lac
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'The Prom' by pupparoo123
featured by: CaronCecilia
"Two men walk into a bar..." by Jazzman1989
featured by: julietcaesar
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"The Thrill" by samjo989
Visual Poetry / Collab
featured by: Tap-Photo-and-Co
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"Prophesy" by blucrimson and SilentPlea
Poetry
featured by ColonelFitz
"grappling with silence" by mySeity
featured by: musicalgenius321
"Matched Socks Are Not A Pair." by estallidos
featured by: YouInventedMe
humanity is a library by Aadea
featured by underworldriver
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"Atlantic" by thefireflyliberation
suggested by: Azpep
featured by: kersee9
"Fundamental" by intricately-strung
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Prose
featured by Kitri-du-Lac
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'The Prom' by pupparoo123
featured by: CaronCecilia
Two men walk into a bar...Late Friday evening in early February, red and blue lights flashed from the top of a police car as an officer dressed in the usual navy blue uniform gave a sobriety test to an obviously drunk man. He swerved and bobbed as he tried to walk the proverbial yellow brick road outside of Finnegan’s Way in Paterson, New Jersey, yet ultimately gave into his better judgment and was arrested by the officer. Many people stood outside the bar and watched as the man made a spectacle of himself before surrendering, made for a good night laugh before heading home.
Inside, a cold mist penetrated the room of Finnegan’s Way, a local bar and hang out for people hard on luck. Two such men were at the bar. One cleaning glasses with a cotton towel, while the other dirties them with ice-cold beer, straight from the tap; the froth leaking over the rim of the glass as it settled. “It’s kind of slow tonight,” said the bartender, “I guess that gives me more
"Two men walk into a bar..." by Jazzman1989
featured by: julietcaesar
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"The Thrill" by samjo989
Visual Poetry / Collab
featured by: Tap-Photo-and-Co
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"Prophesy" by blucrimson and SilentPlea
Poetry
featured by ColonelFitz
grappling with silencethe first nights being home are
indescribable. they are breathing a strange air
that has already composed your lungs, shuffing your feet
through grass that holds the same
quick softness
you have always known in darkness.
they are absorbing voices you almost forgot,
petting the love that is your cat's back,
falling into bed far too late at night and thinking
of someone you swore you'd forgotten, had left behind,
and instead use as a measure for everything present.
(you are ever the wall against which I fall.
in the morning I get up, paint your skin
with three layers of tangerine paint,
and cover you in brand new photos. a day later
I am pressed up against the old plaster,
straining to hear the sound
of your blood rushing again
but then I wake up and, as the
artist knows, I keep painting.)
the word that comes to mind is always
love
growing tall and skinny like a pomegranate tree
shooting through your childhood
it does not have to be rumpled bedspreads and skin, it is
a telephone crying a
"grappling with silence" by mySeity
featured by: musicalgenius321
"Matched Socks Are Not A Pair." by estallidos
featured by: YouInventedMe
humanity is a libraryi.
I am beckoned
by a page -
stained brown
and burned
with the smell of old
farm animals. I read
ii.
On pale hill there lies a child
and like a dying rattlesnake
it stabs the earth
with paintbrushes
ruthless.
iii.
I am disturbed and dirty.
iv.
and so I bathe
in my own hues
and journey
across the Antarctic
and when I turn around
v.
my footprints are red.
humanity is a library by Aadea
featured by underworldriver
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"Atlantic" by thefireflyliberation
suggested by: Azpep
featured by: kersee9
FundamentalWhen our worlds collide
I want them to stick together and conserve momentum
The magnitude of our hearts causing us to reach speeds greater than Mach 5
Our relative velocity will be zero, and you'll see that you're the only one that makes sense in my life
I try too hard to go against the universe,
building something of us and reducing entropy
Why does it have to be so hard?
You'll always be the buoyant force keeping me from sinking,
I'll always be the gravity to keep you from flying back to heaven,
and she'll always be the frictional force that opposes us right when we're finally reaching equilibrium
It's frustrating when our minds aren't at the same frequency;
There's far too much distortion
...yet it's those occasional moments when we're perfectly in phase that keep me from giving up.
The resonance takes my breath away...
The gauge pressure between us is too great
One of us is going to decompress
Too late.
I know I'm just another foolish scientist;
I've been trying to mask how I feel
"Fundamental" by intricately-strung
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
Will's Final Words
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
New Information...
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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Very good collection today!!