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Daily Lit Deviations for May 2nd, 2012
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Special Edition: Staff Appreciation
We usually don't feature work from our staff, as the point is to feature great work
we find around deviantART. But some of our staff have been here for more than a year,
and all of them are lovely, talented authors. So May 2nd - 5th will feature the finest
pieces from the galleries of our Category and General Admins. If you'd like to suggest
a piece from one of their galleries, please send a note to LiliWrites. Thank you.
SilverInkblot
Lauren is a general admin who also finds wonderful work to feature. She's an admin
in several other groups, including our affiliate theWrittenRevolution and has been
in charge of the temporarily halted Saturday Spotlight interview series.
Featured by LiliWrites
Off TopicIt takes twelve minutes
to assemble sixteen desks
in a perfect circle.
Or as perfect as I can get it.
Then it takes another hour
for the first stragglers to wander in, seating themselves.
The professor always arrives seven
minutes before class begins.
He sits on the left side
while discourse flows easily among
the discordant voices.
The exchange rate on ideas
is ten seconds of silence for a halting opinion,
unsure of itself,
but backed up with a quoted passage
from page one twenty-three, read aloud then cut off -
contradicted by a second opinion.
The first voice breathes easy;
the spotlight eyes are elsewhere.
In the midst of interrupt,
interpret, contradict,
the professor bends one knee
up to his chair, fixing
the loose knot of an old pair of loafers.
He ties a new knot without looking,
caught up in the dialogue
of his charges and finishes tightening
the strings as he raises his voice,
steering the dialouge back
to the topic at hand.
My worn pair of red
and white double-knotted Sketch
Off Topic by SilverInkblot
Sometimes the moments that connect us
to our authority figures have little to do with position or class,
and everything to do with just being human.
Featured by LiliWrites
Drowning in Reverse II vii. I still have your phone.
vi. The boardwalk carnival was shut down a few months later, roped off and boarded up like a condemnation of joy. The Ferris wheel rose high above the skyline, towering in silent reminder. I had to look at it every day on the ride to school. But it still hurt a little less than the pitying glances cast my way when no one thought I was looking.
v. The funeral was on a beautiful, balmy, sunny day and somehow that made it all the worse. The wind would pick up a little and ruffle your goldspun hair and I could hope, just for a moment, that you were still here. That the hollow thumping in my chest would be solid again. That we could still have a future, a family, a wire terrier puppy with an oversized backyard to play in, that we could have all those things. Together.
Drowning in Reverse II by SilverInkblot
Few things please me more than seeing a writer upload a polished
version of an already outstanding piece. Influenced by another popular
deviation on the site, Lauren decided to try her hand
at telling a story in reverse, and the result is marvelous.
spoems
Shane is also a general admin and usually finds incredible poetry pieces
to feature. He's an admin for Word-Smiths where his articles on poetic
structure and authorship are informative and inspiring.
Featured by LiliWrites
I Can't Remember Why It Made Me Angry At First
She throws up arms and intellect;
dueling geysers
reveling in the natural atomic weakness
of given margins.
She'll never cram enough of space
into her desk to house the whole
of curiosity
and everyone will hate her
for the way she closes in on
imaginary deltas
that chase us from the tips
of archipelagos
peeking through the stratus lip
of our tektonic brotherhood.
Yes, you can go ahead and say it: "Well, that's you
in her."
I Can't Remember Why It Made Me Angry At First by spoems
Striking imagery wound around a snippet of a story
that unfolds to reveal the essence of influence.
Featured by LiliWrites
Forward About Nothing Forward About Nothing
I’ve always been somewhat aware of the unthinkable totality of the infinite. Throughout my struggle with or ignorance of this perception, i always looked upon art as a way of subjecting the massless eternity into objective material form. Soon after reading the bop-steaming unconsciousness that is Mexico City Blues by J. Kerouac, I was hyper-exhilarated, dumbfounded, and struck bluntly with an instrument of pure, free, heretical poesy. While I have no real interest in any style, per se, i realized an opportunity within myself to be inspired by the cult-heroic example of the boundless flow of formlessness into a uniquely receptive plenum of material cognition.
I have developed a fascina
Forward About Nothing by spoems
Poets throughout history have undertaken strange and wild styles
in order to separate themselves from the crowd. Shane has written
111 pieces of poetry about "nothing", allowing himself to write in whatever form,
with whatever punctuation or device comes to his fingertips. It is an interesting
journey to read through some of them, and I highly encourage you to follow
the link in the artist's comment of this Forward to the series.
Carmalain7
Alain is a Category Admin for poetry. He's an upbeat, cheerful fellow who is always
giving out his smiles and praise. He works over at theWrittenRevolution
and may know too much about the early metal scene.
Featured by LiliWrites
Static by Carmalain7
Written for transliterations Modernising Myths Contest, this incredibly
vivid and detailed poem is a new, modern take on the old story of the Tower of Babel.
Despite the discordant thoughts in each section, the poem finds
cohesiveness in the overall tone of disenfranchisement.
Featured by LiliWrites
The Wasteland by Carmalain7
A thorough, interesting discourse on the various meanings and interpretations
in the symbology and mythology used by T.S. Eliot in his well-known piece The Wasteland.
Great reading for anyone who'd like a deeper understanding of this classic.
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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
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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
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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...
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