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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 dead, but how long did you expect them
to live in there, in the dark, with a limited amount of air?
everything dies, really, it's just a matter of who you die
loving, who you die with, who is inside your head when
you die, who you send strong telepathic messages to when
you die.
5.
"today, i made someone smile completely by accident."
"what an accomplishment! how se
"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: Kitri-du-Lac
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 that the bus ride was an hour long. So far the journey had passed quietly and uneventfully as the bus winded through secluded roads. There were no other passengers except for Adele, Uncle Grandad and I. Both me and Adele were listening to music and conversing occasionally.
Sleepily, Adele removed her earphones and asked "Where are we?"
I looked thro
"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.
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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
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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Whoever is the head honcho here in the Literature Community, please say so. If not, please send me a link I can go to so I can talk to him or her about a thing or two, good things, that is.
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!
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!