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Daily Lit Deviations for January 2nd, 2013
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Poetry
Suggested by: Anonymous
Featured by: =DrippingWords
"Hello, Lover," by *TheTerrorOfTheDeep
Suggester says: "I adored the
romance to this piece. The writer
has a way of taking my breath away. "
Suggested by: *doodlerTM
Featured by: =DrippingWords
Summers Lost god died today. or maybe it was tomorrow. i can't remember.
"ask anything."
static skies;
grizzled blue
sketching down
to sewer lines:
like a wish
on a dead star.
the feeling of gritted teeth
and fingers crossed
until they break.
shame tasted
like a scalpel
and a brick wall
against my throat.
and i was
chewing concrete
when i said,
"it's okay."
swallowing cinder blocks;
stuffing steel under skin.
sugar-sweet
on my cheek,
like book pages:
"where have you been?"
"Summers Lost" by ~poetic-headache
Suggester says: "The ambiguity
of this piece and its vivid and
creative imagery make it stick
out as a great bit of poetry."
Featured by: =LadyofGaerdon
Stephanie - Collab(I wrote us in free verse over every inch
of your tattered surface ).
you were the beatific grin
of a kindergartener high off oxygen,
mouth stretched wide as the entrance to hell,
black tongue bleeding virtuous sin like ichor.
(You taught me praying was for the weak
as I fell for your gypsum nails,
white teeth scrabbling over my chalkboard frame).
scribbled flesh tells no love story
but three layers of skin
worn thin along the length of our feverish bones.
(Garden flowers tucked away worms and dirt,
my ribs hoarded misspellings of my mother's name).
dipping your origami limbs into my ink
Stephanie -Collab(I wrote us in free verse over every inch
of your tattered surface ).
you were the beatific grin
of a kindergartener high off oxygen,
mouth stretched wide as the entrance to hell,
black tongue bleeding virtuous sin like ichor.
(You taught me praying was for the weak
as I fell for your gypsum nails,
white teeth scrabbling over my chalkboard frame).
Stephanie - Collab by ~winterkate & *DearPoetry
A gorgeous example of a well-executed
collaboration, in which each artists' skills
and styles blend into and complement
each other in perfect synchronicity.
Prose
Suggested by ^NicSwaner
Featured by `Kneeling-Glory
My Bullying Experiences by ~C-y-n-d-i
Suggester writes: This piece of writing
is more than just a recollection of a
progression of mental scars, it is an
outstanding push by an individual
to raise awareness of the direct
and indirect effects of bullying
from the bullies and their victims.
Suggested by Anonymous
Featured by *doodlerTM
EtiologyThe townswomen are all hacking. The townsmen bid their wits and strengths to the apple orchards and timberland; they query--honestly--if their wives are fooling them. "It is just their own idiosyncrasies--petty womanly idiosyncrasies," the traveling doctor quips,"They're all full of it--full of their cycles and lack of experience." If only it were that common, the townsmen thought among each other: nonspeaking, due to their introverted masculinity (all highly unemotional, even out loud). The ladies never went that way; they were usually doting to us and our offspring! They were right. Though, the townswomen knew their husbands would lack defi
Etiology by ~cliffthetotoro
From the suggester: "I always love
a well-done story of gender distinctions.
This is a marvelously-told, nearly nonfiction
piece which analyzes the disease of society."
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