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Daily Lit Deviations for January 1^st, 2012

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Poetry

_{Featured by: LadyofGaerdon}
to be born in the rainThe sky's cold tears fall
mingling with the salty trails on my face.
I am born with a winter's rain
caressing my newly formed cheeks,
stiff limbs taking first steps through puddles -
tiny oceans gracing black pavement.
So this is what it feels like
to
b r e a t h e
fresh, cold air floods tender senses,
tingling and full of a thousand new smells
connected with sights and sounds.
Birth is a cold, fresh, marvelous thing
pulsing and swaying to the discordant music
of new life.
"to be born in the rain" by Eefera

<sub>Some of us don't have snow
for the holidays, but rain, and
this poem captures perfectly how
enveloping, how invigorating the
feeling of breathing in the rain-
soaked sky can be.


Suggested by beeswingblue
Featured by spoems</sub>
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Not an Apricot by waakawaaka

<sub>Per the suggester: “Understated
yet emotionally honest, this piece
speaks volumes.”


Featured by angelStained</sub>
ingloriousi am all smiles
and pale sun,
too.
and we are wild
things
it's true.
but in past lives
i was good.
inglorious by tonguebox

_{Such a delicate balance
framed with every word is rarely
seen; it must be savored.}

Prose

_{Featured by shebledgreenink}
Two Pennies and a DimeTwo pennies and a dime sit at the bottom of the wishing well.  The well was an ordinary well, until the pair decided this should not be so.
She declared that she had never visited a wishing well and that logic insisted all unclaimed wells were to become wishing wells, and he was inclined to agree.  It was decided that only very important wishes should be wished at the well, lest the power of the wishing well be drained (for who knows how much power a previously unclaimed well holds?).
They went about their chores, homework, and other such experiences, and never once forgot about the wishing well. It was a full year, to the day-and-a-half, before the first wish was thrown into the well, and he was informed that he must stand at least twenty-three feet away while she made the wish, because if anyone but the well heard the wish go in, it might never be granted.  The same secretive process occurred six-and-three-quarters years later, and he stood quietly behin
Two Pennies and a Dime by PapayaPirate

<sub>Charming, sweet, and subtle.
A touching story with just a hint
of magic.


Featured by: LiliWrites</sub>
people are peoplei think sometimes we forget that whenever we say goodbye to someone for the night and they go home, they don't just fold up in their cars and lie dormant until we see them again.
they go home and get into a fight with their mother, make a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich and only eat half of it, and toss the rest in the trash. they flip on their favorite cd and pretend that they are in another town, far away where people see them as a person and not just this two dimensional character cut-out of wood and existing only to tell stories and smile.
and then they fall asleep and dream about flying and breathing clearly without a catch in their chest that can only be fixed with a strong hug.
we keep forgetting that people are people and that they are full of colors and feelings and thoughts, because any other day they are just gray faces only highlighted when we need them.
a stranger in the car across the intersection is only that, someone we don't know and don't really care about u
"people are people" by FrayedHeartString

_{I was caught by the first
line of this short piece, and
enjoyed every word after till
I found myself nodding along
with the conclusion.}




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_{Prepared by: spoems}