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Daily Lit Deviations for May 17^th, 2012

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Poetry

_{Suggested by: Exnihilo-nihil
Featured by: LadyofGaerdon}
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Northerner by halcyonshores

<sub>Says the suggester, "heart of ice and love -
with brilliant expression."



Featured by LiliWrites</sub>
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Icarus by That-Writer-Kid

_{A clever take on an old myth that uses great
rhythm and repetition to carry the story across.}

Prose

_{Featured by doodlerTM}
Amy's Afternoon'What are we doing after lunch?' asked Amy.
'We have to go shopping,' said Mummy, 'and I have to go to the bank, and I might pop to the chemist's for -'
'Do I have to go?'
'Yes, darling, there's no one to look after you.  Oh Amy, don't look like that.  It won't take long.'  That was a lie.  'Then afterwards we're going to Aunt Fuzzy's for tea.'
'Oh no!' said Amy.
'Oh Amy, really!  What's wrong with Aunt Fuzzy?'
'You always talk about boring things, and she gives me funny flavours of Ribena.'
'She's got very old eyes, darling,' said Mummy.  'She finds it very difficult to read anything these days.'
'Can't she look at the picture?'
'She doesn't think she needs to.  A long time ago, before you were born, blackcurrant was the only Ribena flavour you could get.  She doesn't know there are others now.'
Amy wondered why anyone had been so stupid as to invent other flavours of Ribena.  Blackcurrant was th
Amy's Afternoon by ThornyEnglishRose

<sub>A cute and whimsical little piece written
beautifully from the point of a child.


Suggested by: LadyofGaerdon
Featured by: SilverInkblot</sub>

first date  by ohsostarryeyed

_{Said the Suggester: "Simple, yet universally understood."}

Foreign Language

_{Suggested by Exnihilo-nihil
Featured by shebledgreenink}
Hout-ka-Ptah + audioC'est sur une mer d'étoiles, aux courbes ondulantes,
Pleines et généreuses,
Embrassant l'infinité du monde,
Que j'ai emprunté la Barque des Horizons.
J'ai voyagé de l'aube au déclin d'une civilisation,
Affrontant les Ténèbres ophidiennes,
Au rythme de la grandeur et de la décadence des hymnes
Qui autrefois flattaient les dieux.
Suivant le cours du Lotus,
Jusqu'aux sources célées,
Traversant les terres de la Colère,
Jusqu'au Pays de l'Arc,
Le Temple et le Trône me recouvrent de leurs ailes,
Dans un pays où les Rois sont Dieux,
Et les Dieux, Mortels.
----
It is on a starry sea, its undulating sensuality,
Full and curvacious,
Contemplating the infinity of the world,
That I went aboard the Great Horizon's boat.
I traveled from the dawn till the close of a civilization,
Fighting against a ribbon of darkness,
At the rate of greatness and decay of the hymns
Which once flattered the gods.
Following the flow of the Lotus
Hout-ka-Ptah by DameOdessa

_{The suggester said "Very moving, playing on several
sounds and ideas, in a fluid manner. It recalls the style
of the author: mystical and mysterious."
And there's an English translation!}


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