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Daily Lit Deviations for May 23^rd, 2012

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Poetry

_{Featured by: LadyofGaerdon}
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"undefined" by Tetronix

<sub>A well-crafted rumination on the idea
and the ideal of beauty.


Featured by: betwixtthepages</sub>
Half-Penny ThoughtYou’re a half-penny thought in the back of my mind,
just a whimsy, a waste of a fragment of time.
You’re a telephone number I forgot to write down;
you’re the least of my worries, the last in a line
of a long list of wishes I’ve wished for.
Yes, your voice is a song that I hum now and then,
not for long, just for fun, never starting again
round and round in my head, nowhere near my top ten,
this refrain won’t remain, when it’s over - Amen
just a tune that I once might’ve danced to.
You’re a memory, fading, a faraway sound
hardly there, barely heard, just a wisp on the wind
like a melody played on a merry-go-round
when I’m walking away from the carnival ground
- in my heart do I wish I’d stayed longer?
You’re a face, you’re a friend, you’re a photograph framed
on the wall of my make-believe home, in the end
you’re not here, you’re not anywhere near, let’s pretend
that it’s all not for real, that it
"Half-Penny Thought" by tightwhitepants

_{This beautifully written anapest challenges
readers to always act as if every moment will
be the most important of their lives, instead
of letting them fall into insignificance.  
tightwhitepants reminds us all that even
the small things are worth it.}

Prose

_{Featured by doodlerTM}
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Today, I'm Fine. by WolfGurl1020

<sub>A short, but emotion-packed piece.



Featured by LiliWrites</sub>
Fifty Years - Revision 4"Menu April 3, 1960
Steak Tips with Sautéed Mushrooms and Onions
Asparagus
Mashed Potatoes
Wine
Apple Pie a la mode
Floral Decorations -Yellow Roses
Shopping List:
Steak Tips
Onions
Mushrooms
Asparagus
Mashed Potatoes
Yellow Roses
Wine
Dessert - Apple Pie, Vanilla Ice Cream"
I looked at the shopping list in my hands and read the next item. My mother had let me look through some things from the days before I was born, and in them was a menu and shopping list from the first anniversary they'd gotten to spend together. You see, my father was in the Air Force, and spent a lot of time overseas, separated from my mother. So, he started something on their first anniversary. I remember seeing the card in with the pictures my father took and developed himself over the years…
3 April, 1955 - It was a small card, the kind that came with flowers. "Happy First Anniversary. Love Me." It was inside a card that my father had sent to my mother that same year. "Happy Anniversary" the front of
Fifty Years - Revision 4 by Crimsonpelt

_{A touching, heartfelt recollection of the
author's parents and their love for each other.}

Foreign Language

_{Featured by shebledgreenink}
A toi l'ame ma soeurA toi l'âme ma soeur
Il n'est qu'un lieu sublime où s'étirent les rêves,
Où dansent ombre et lumière au reflet de mes yeux,
Dont la beauté s'exprime en sourire amoureux,
Que pour mieux savourer, le temps se met en grève.
Il n'est qu'un point constant dans l'immensité brève,
Où entre vague et vent l'horizon langoureux
Est un anneau d'argent, oeuvre de quelque dieu,
Un "oui" force d'aimant, promesse d'une trêve.
A choisir entre un âtre où consumer mon âme,
Ou entre un sombre abîme où aller perdre pied,
Puisque tout doit mourir un jour, quitte à t'aimer,
Pour que tous mes soupirs s'étouffent, âme ma soeur,
Je choisirai ce gîte où ma raison se pâme:
Le creux chaud de tes bras, ce lieu triomphateur.
A toi l'âme ma soeur by Kalthen

_{Thought-provoking, with intricate
uses of rhyme and repetition.}



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