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Daily Lit Deviations for March 18th, 2013
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Poetry
Suggested by Exnihilo-nihil
Featured by: LadyofGaerdon
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a mild winter by halcyonshores
Suggester: A nostalgic and peaceful poetry,
which lead us in a white heart-beating.
Featured by: LionesseRampant
dead wordsthe poets and novelists are dead.
dead poem analysis
dead novel deconstruction
multitasking:
dead words
on a dead tree sheaf
stained with dead food
and possibly being contemplated
by a dead mind.
who is to remember the words
of the now-unfunctioning,
only for those who have breath?
“you love literature
because of what it is,
not what it does.”
oh for the love of intrinsic value.
the poets and novelists are dead.
but we are alive to connect
to their worthiness of writing.
"dead words " by doodlerTM
The imagery and repetition in this poem bring it to life,
making it prance around the readers mind and successfully
capturing the bygone poets its theme is centered around.
Featured by: betwixtthepages
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Broken Promises by Fires-of-Winter
Broken Promises, by Fires-of-Winter,
explores human nature and the ways different people
handle the burden of secrets and lies. Sometimes,
sneaking around is fun...but is it really worth what you're bound to lose?
Prose
Featured by: SilverInkblot
nighthawksThe late-night girl at the mess hall was herself a mess. She was wearing all black and it might have had a certain art-student glamour had her pants been skinny and her eyeliner not been greyish and smudged. Her grey coat was old-and-new, clearly a thrift-store purchase that she'd been proud of paired with a dress and tights, but on top of the black ensembled looked tired and out-of-place, haphazardly thrown on because it was wool and warm. But wool was not what she should have picked. The girl had an air of good intentions but having horrid luck, and that's what happened today. It had rained heavily in the morning, and that rain turned to sluggish slush like walking through bottom-of-the-carton vanilla ice cream, and the proud wool coat was damp and slackened, pilling and sodden with watery snow. as well, her canvas tennis shoes were soaked through and every so often wafts of wet-sock-smell would curl off them in tendrils. as if to try to avoid the weather, she had cuffed the not-skin
nighthawks by hipsterfaust
An exercise in description; sometimes one specific thing,
like clothes, can tell you a lot about a character.
Featured by xlntwtch
The Violinist ObsessionA single string vibrates in the emptiness of the auditorium. The audience left an hour ago, and the acts not long after. The single note hovers in the air for longer than possible, filling the darkness with something between a sound and a feeling; something which is in itself part of the soul, before fading into the black.
Again a single string is played, and then another. The fingers caress them with the grace and care of a lover. A melody begins to unfold. The single notes merge, melting together to become one fluid mass which is at once everything and nothing. This is the work of a man who has taught himself – he is not bound by the same laws that restrict those who have been trained, his mind is free to peruse the notes as he sees fit; to strip them of their arrogance, to tear them down and build them up again into something new. This is the work of a genius. This is a true musician.
He plays without fear, without shame, as a musician should. He plays with emotion and w
The Violinist Obsession by Dominion-of-Cain
Superb flash fiction concerning the power of
music and love, this piece resonates as much as each
note combines to make melody on a violin.
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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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