Daily Lit Deviations for August 14th, 2011

We are proud to feature today's Daily Literature Deviations!
You can show your support by ing this News Article.
Please comment and the features and congratulate the artists!


For all of the featured artists: If you receive a DD for one
of your pieces featured by DLD please note damina.
We will include you and your piece in a special recognition news article.

Poetry

_{Featured by apple-dark}
:thumb248308384:
To be of air by bluest-green

<sub>Possibly the ultimate state of being.  
That's what this poem expresses.  
To be so at peace and so light...
don't we spend our whole lives
striving for that?


Featured by angelStained</sub>

Mature Content

Whether the Land Cups Water, Whether Water Holds Land by Blzzard

<sub>The firm structure entwined with fluid,
thoughtful images makes this a wondrous
piece.


Featured by apple-dark</sub>
The Machine Without a PurposeAt Slumber Inc.
We had the most beautiful machine.
Metallic, reflective chrome
Adorned every square inch
Of its surface.
It was complete with
A myriad of gauges and vents.
Belts and cogs
Spun and clicked with pride.
White smoke poured from its
Exhaust endlessly.  
It would consume pint
Upon pint of oil
With every passing day,
And gallon upon gallon of fuel
With every passing hour.
We would sweat buckets and nails
Keeping it running.
We never knew what it did
Exactly, but it purred
Like a newborn kitten,
And that was all that mattered.
Until, The People's Republic of Mulzar,
Went bankrupt
And they sent us home
To scratch our skulls with forks.
The Machine Without a Purpose by waffle26

_{What would we be willing
to do to keep the dream machine running?  
That is what this poem made me think about.  
Whatever it's really about, it's a very
enjoyable little story.  I could see a
whole book or animated movie done around this.}

Prose

_{Featured by: Kitri-du-Lac}
To Finish the Story""You said that you would dance with me if I brought you a red rose," cried the Student. "Here is the reddest rose in all the world. You will wear it to-night next your heart, and as we dance together it will tell you how I love you.""
The boys sat and stared at me, nervously awaiting what Papa had written next. Was the student's true love going to dance with him after all the trouble he had gone through with the nightingale and the rose? I had read this a dozen times before he published it, and the boys had heard it on numerous occasions, but they never gave up thinking that it could end differently somehow.
"Keep going, Mamma." Vyvyan begged and tugged at his shirt sleeves.
"Shh, Vyvyan! Let her keep going." Cyril huffed, hardly taking his eyes off of the book in my hands.
"Boys, do you want me to continue or not?"
"Yes! Keep going!" They shouted out of order and I looked back at the page.
"'But the girl frowned, "I am afraid it will not go with my dress," she answered; "and, besides
"To Finish the Story" by KaleidoscopeWoman

<sub>This ambitious piece of historical
fiction succeeds well at establishing
the voice of famous characters. It also
picks up on more general feelings of the
age, showing how well it has been researched.
Good quality historical fiction.


Featured by angelStained</sub>
:thumb252005367:
Desert by englandrain

_{These is such a brilliantly written
character flash that you must stay and savor.
The strong, well-crafted style shines through
as well.}


For more information, including how to suggest a Deviation
to be featured, please visit us at *DailyLitDeviations.

Thanks so much for supporting the lit community and this project!

~ The *DailyLitDeviations Team ~


Prepared by: spoems