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Daily Lit Deviations for June 23rd, 2013
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Poetry
Suggested by: Parsat
Featured by LadyofGaerdon
The Guardian Wraith of Starlit SmokeOur sitting here by lantern-light together
In the thick of a teeming snowfall;
The final golden glow,
Against the ancient sovereignty of night,
Like the last petal off a flower.
It is turning three hundred years
He never let the lantern drop.
The illimitable dark and cold and storm,
Whose work is to find out God;
And when they came it seemed with a will
To carry me with them to death.
What comes over a man, is it soul or mind-
(The Devil enters like a sapphire wasp)
Twixt what to love and what to hate
To find out how to get away from God?
No one has seen him stumble looking back
From having died
Inaudibly in thought;
The sorrow of having been left behind.
The land was ours before we were the land's
And having it all made over new
From force to matter and back to force,
The alrea
The Guardian Wraith of Starlit Smoke by Blacksand459
Suggester: A semi-cento written for
ProjectDFC's May Mixup Madness,
the poem is comprised of 50 lines
from 50 different poems of Robert
Frost's. Virtuosic yet stirring in the
most basic way, the piece takes
themes of love and trust and imbues
them with rare emotional depth.
Suggested by: Sammur-amat
Featured by: spoems
The Length of Every MileBefore the moon turned
shades of sunflower
and brewed a tempest to stir notions
further from coastline
we were tide-locked
and I could see, through the lens,
life on the other side.
And distance was an ocean.
The Length of Every Mile by nawkaman
Per the suggester: "There is such a
profound and beautiful cadence in this
piece by nawkaman and I encourage
everybody to go over and gobble up
his gorgeous gallery. "
Featured by LadyofGaerdon
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The Art of Language Acquisition by MaggiexMalarkey
The author puts it best:
there is no greater sadness
than speaking your heart
in the wrong words.
Prose
Featured by doodlerTM
Jukebox Cafe A string of bells jingled obnoxiously against glass as Hugh entered the Jukebox Café. The first thing he noticed was the pepless fan rotating just enough to move hot air and the smell of grease from one side of the restaurant to the other. No one came for the food, or at least that’s what he assumed upon sight of the sticky red tablecloths and French fries that speckled the checkered floor. That and the fact that he was the only soul in sight.
He walked up to the bar and squinted at a sign asking customers to “Please seat yourself or ring for service.” What kind of café required its customers to ring a bell for service? Not sure if there was an employee in the place, he rang it despite the sheen applied by dirty hands, and the shrill sound barely cut through an old tune produced by the jukebox in the corner.
A
Jukebox Cafe by illuminara
A magical short story about a mysterious cafe.
Foreign Language
Featured by Exnihilo-nihil
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Le Fou by MorbidHarlequin
A short poetry by MorbidHarlequin, which
is not a native french speaker. For a first try,
it's excellent - 3 simples lines, well written in
a poetic and enigmatic way about "the fool.
You'll find an english translation in the comment.
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Prepared by: spoems
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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