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Daily Lit Deviations for April 7th, 2010
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featured by: `dreamsinstatic
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"Butterfly" by !RedLam
This poem managed through brilliant
imagery and haunting emotion to capture
the essence of the moment so poignantly.
Often love is freeing, but sometimes it
refused to release.
Featured by ~hell-on-a-stick
in all its fluffy glory.1.
i believe that all the butterflies in my stomach have since
died, my dear. the funny thing is, when i roll over on your
carpeted floor i feel their brittle, unmoving wings graze
along the delicate tissue within me. so this feeling has
not died yet, it hasn't.
2.
there's a simple equation for the loveliness of the sore
muscles, the pain is countered by the feeling of waking
up to your face.
3.
"i've decided to let go."
"oh, have you?"
"yes. i have a feeling your eyes are worth it."
4.
this is not something of love. this is something of possible
love, of definite fondness, of unbridled infatuation. yes,
the butterflies are
"in all its fluffy glory" by ~injuredjaw
~injuredjaw pulls us along on a journey
through weeks or months observing sometimes
very everyday things through very different eyes.
It will all rectify itself by the end of the journey.
Prose
featured by: *Miss-S-Bird
CornwallI sat beside the bus window, gazing at the non-descript scenery and trying to form a sequence from what I saw, sheep, field, tree, sheep, field, tree, sheep...well you get the idea. To the left of me sat my travelling companion, Adele. She had a look of utter boredom written all to clearly across her face. Sitting a few seats behind us was an elderly man dressed in a tweed flat cap and a navy blue fleece, he hummed quietly to himself and I nicknamed him Uncle Grandad simply because he looked like he would offer me a Murray Mint.
We had gotten on the bus half an hour earlier before in Newcastle, expecting to go to Durham but not anticipating
"Cornwall" by ~RoadKillZebra
The child-like narrative voice of this
piece gives it a wonderfully friendly tone.
Using little phrases, it sets the scene of the
bus journey well and captures the reader in
the hope of the characters, building us to
feel their disappointment at the end. A sweet
and clever piece of non-fiction.
featured by `Exillior
"Mikey" by ~LittleLottexo
With well-chosen words, ~LittleLottexo
tells us the story of a boy, in a voice full of
tenderness and vehemence, that is bound
to leave the reader deeply moved.
Foreign Language
Featured by: ~Magic-fan
Je ruikt lekker.Je ruikt lekker.
Zacht gemompelde woorden
vanaf lippen in mijn nek
nooit meer kan ik ze horen
zonder te denken aan de plek
waar we lagen op mijn kamer
met onder ons de harde grond
en hoe onze lippen bleven spelen
tot één van ons genoegen vond.
Je ruikt lekker.
Het zijn woorden die weerkaatsen
door de leegte van mijn ziel
waardoor ik steeds maar weer moet denken
aan hoe je bijna voor me viel.
"Je ruikt lekker." by ~the-poets-of-blah
Emotional, sweet and filled with love.
This is an extremely well-written Dutch
poem that is sure to tug the heart strings
of readers.
For more information, including how to suggest a deviation to be featured, please visit us at =DailyLitDeviations
prepared by: `Exillior
I firmly believe that this Community, although generous in putting effort, is NOT pushing hard enough to get the audience to greet and welcome the forms of Literature back to the norm.
It sickens me that every time I go to browse the Daily Deviations; there is only one, if at all any, Literature pieces in there, and NOTHING is being done to get Literature off the back burner merely sitting in the corner of the ‘Community News Section.’
News, really, does it really fit under that category? No. Literature is just as much an illustrator to a picture, as a picture is an illustrator for words, and many fall too short to see this.
To put it in short, they are equally artistic and of equal beauty.
This is no outrage from me, this is a truth and fact.
To inspire this Community further, please, have ALL the people you know who put their dedication and love to Literature, read these:
Poetry’s Renaissance here: [link] and The Soliloquy to Literature, here: [link]
These are very impacting pieces of writing I have written, in a struggle to refuse to live in a time where Poetry and Literature is at its brink, and I think if suggest as a DD, would open some people’s eyes!
I am tired of this matter being pushed away – let us push further – and to everyone in the Lit Community, push harder!
The same way Visual Daily Deviations are glorified, instead of being in a mere link in the ‘Community News,’ needs to be applied to Literature, by putting it in its own line directly UNDER the visual DD’s.
Please, if someone from this Community can please respond, tell me your thoughts on this matter!
Thank you!
First of all, I would like to say that I am not very sure what you mean by a number of things in your comment, so correct me if I am wrong in my reply. I would like to say that I am responding simply as a fellow deviant who came across your comment. ^^
Daily Deviations (DDs) are daily features by the Gallery Moderators - they are pieces that have been suggested to them or that they have found, that they wanted to show to the community. DDs of every gallery are given the same exposure and appear in the same channel.
Daily Literature Deviations (DLDs) on which you have commented, are features by an independent club formed by regular deviants, who simply wish to feature five pieces of Lit a day in the News. These features and these deviants have nothing to do with the Gallery Moderators.
In both cases, however, the features are driven by the community. What you see featured is what the community has been suggesting. If you believe that this is not to your standards, then you should send in suggestions to help improve the standard. The GMs and clubs feature what is shown to them. Another issue you bring up is (if I understand rightly) how Lit features are pushed to the background. As far as I am aware, Lit and other DDs all appear on the same page and in the same channel; and the News features that you have commented on also appear alongside other art News features. In fact, if you look at the links to the right of this article, you will probably find that Literature fills most spots.
I hope that addresses your questions, and please send your suggestions of good Literature to the GMs: ^LadyLincoln, ^fllnthblnk and ^SparrowSong. As with every community, the Lit community is driven by the members of the community - not a head honcho.
To put it in short, as you might not have understood in my previous comment, my problem is with exposure. There is not enough of it here, I feel.
All I was saying is that, yes, even though you DO mention in your comment that the DailyLitDeviations is on the SAME page as the DD's are on, just by the number of people who fave the article, which is extremely low, tells me the DailyLitDeviations link is NOT getting the exposure it needs!
P.S. No matter how many GM's I contact, no one is willing to get IN with the idea I have in mind. One voice is NOT enough on here. There needs to be other people who want in on this for something to get done.
I am also not certain that I understand what your idea is. If contacting GMs is not what you had in mind, who was "head honcho" referring to? And if you wanted to share your idea with us, why do you not mention it?
I apologise for sounding confused, but I really don't understand what you mean.
What I meant by on the same page as the DD's, I meant it is within the same AREA, where it says 'Community News.' In that area, NOT actually ON the same page as the DD's.
I say will be saying no more because I don't know how much more you're not going to understand.
I offered to help and quite frankly I don't understand why, with the dedication you have to getting Literature more exposure, you don't wish to share your ideas. I am in contact with many members of the Lit community and also the community relations team and could bring it up with them.
The little bit you said you didn't understand was ALLOT. Why should I share my ideas to someone who doesn't see eye-to-eye with me?
Now please, I have other people that see the same thing I do, to talk to.
Have a nice day.
Why you should share your ideas with someone who doesn't see eye-to-eye with you? The world is not a mass of like-minded people, there are many people with different views, and if you want a project to work, it's imperative to be able to work with people who have different goals and mindsets. I want to promote Lit too and I was willing to try to work with you. You don't see eye-to-eye with me either.
Also, when one wants to change a community's attitude, it is good to try approaching people who do not already agree with you because logic says that it's those people whose minds need changing.
Thank you! I appreciate that, since it's a great spring day for me and it's my first break in ages!
First, please understand that =DailyLitDeviations (DLD) is just a club on dA. We are in no way endorsed or affiliated with the official dA volunteers. You can talk to ^fllnthblnk, ^SparrowSong, or ^LadyLincoln about featuring literature DDs (Daily Deviations) if you feel so strongly about the issue.
These articles are produced by our club on a daily basis to help gain exposure for many types of literature on dA, but they are NOT the same thing as a Daily Deviation.
Thank you!
OK, yeah, I understand clearly they're not the SAME thing as DD's, however, there IS such a thing as getting your people together, along with people like me, to get in on convincing D.A. to give more exposure to Literature.
In other words, give Literature its own DD category, and have Visual and Artistic in a separate one.
Something needs to give here. Either we stand as people and say something OR nothing gets done. I have done my share of trying to speak to you people and all anyone does is push the matter away.
You are directing just ME to your GM's instead of getting together as a group.