Artists will be featured in a special news article every Saturday. Major points to =SilverInkblot and =DrippingWords for doing the hard work and research that goes into these articles!

Today's featured deviant is:

~HippieHebe!

Questions

1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your writing.

I've been writing since I was quite young, and it was mostly badly written fanfiction and fantasy stories, but I only started writing poetry since I started college. Even then the poetry I wrote was speculative (fantasy and Greek myth).

I'm an introvert and have a tendency to keep thoughts and feelings bottled up, so when I got into a relationship two years ago and my boyfriend found out how I write poetry, he encouraged me to write about my emotions and thoughts to get it all out, and express myself. So, I did. Masking it through metaphors, third person and weird imagery, of course. Haha. I eventually decided to join dA, and dare share my work.

2. How do you feel about dA as a literature community?

I was floored by the dA literature community, at first. I wasn't expecting it to be so big and so close knit. It's amazing! There are so many unique writing styles out there, and people explore in their writing, every subject imaginable – no matter how gritty or controversial or surreal. It’s inspiring. *KaitForest and :Scarlettletters: never cease to amaze me.

3. What is your writing process like?

I don’t know if I’d call it a process. I just write, then try to make sense of the random sentences and words I’ve spewed all over the page.

4. Are there any authors that have influenced your work?

I was introduced to Carol Ann Duffy in college, so she influenced my stuff back then. I suppose dA authors, especially those on my watch list, influence my work now

5. Have you ever written a piece that was "difficult?" Whether because it wasn't ready to be written or something too personal to write about? How do you deal with writing something like that?

I rarely have this problem. The beauty of writing for me is, being able to write about emotional, personal and subjects I find difficult to talk about.

I get writers block, like any other author, but I can broach most matters in my writing and if I do find it difficult to write about, I mask the subject with metaphors.

Poetry

UnderwaterLast night I swam, and
the water was radioactive.

I grew gills
and blew bubbles, turning breaths
into memories.

There were no seagulls on the pier, no stalls,
no sweet and sticky smells,

but a pair of my 'fuck me' shoes.

I slept in seashells, and watched
the sun leak on to the surface –

ashes from earth blowing in the sky with the
salt from the sea.

The coral towered, and the
narwhals wearied with their brittle horns;

split and grew, branched antlers -
stags of the sea.

And like the submissive doe, I
rode on their backs –

soaring through the northern drift,
Atlantis bound, free from the soiled bonds of ear

"Underwater" by ~HippieHebe

I AmI am a tree, twisted in the earth. I am dust
crumbling in the wind – so, let me fly, with the wind;

barefoot,

clad in white, and let me take the reins,
riding winters coming across the northern reach.

Let my shadows run
across rolling hills, hair flowing back

and merging into the black of night, stars and moonlight.

I am a constellation,
set into the sky. I am the moon, waiting in the dark –

so, unravel me from the universe, and
tie me to your bed.

I'll be your firefly when your own flame turns to smoke.

We will curl ourselves,
between the atoms in the space, and

listen to the thoughts of man and music spun like si

"I Am" by ~HippieHebe

astronomerswhen we're together
dusk is containable; the moon in my palms
and the stars on your ceiling.

we lull the city to sleep
with our theories of life; my tongue curling
into speech.

do you remember,
when Jupiter was a silver wick, lighting its countless moons?

that night,
you balanced a cigarette off your lips,
and I watched the vermillion flame burn life
as a newborn sun;

stars forming,
planets moulding and constellations snaked
above our eyes.

i imagined
what it would be like to be curled
inside the embers – creator and destroyer
of worlds,
so close to your lips.

"astronomers" by ~HippieHebe

Prose

Morning TeaShe told him once; the evening sky left her in euphoria. The following morning, he wore all black and put stardust in her tea.

"Morning Tea" by ~HippieHebe

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~ The =DailyLitDeviations Team ~

_{Prepared by: =DrippingWords}

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The Saturday Spotlight for November 17th, 2012by =DailyLitDeviations

Journals / Culture / Interviews

Here at DLD, the need for special feature of artists who have received a DLD occurred to many members of the team over time. NOW we get to work and finally do just that!
Special thanks to the team members that have fought for this. Included you will find an interview with yet another wonderful deviant in the literature community.
Please take the time to read it and then go show some love!

=Sammur-amat Nov 18, 2012 General Artist

Hooray for the ever-amazing ~HippieHebe

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