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Daily Lit Deviations for March 8th, 2012
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Poetry
Featured By: Carmalain7
MutualismI. Impetus
I enter as a passerby,
offering furtive glances to couples,
Strangers who wage war against each other
from within their own consciences.
Canvases waft across the blank corridor –
Liaisons of thunderous smoke and crumbling cities
that strobe through a room furnished with diverted eyes.
Each time the parable fades to black,
I find it easy to believe
that something so Dark could regulate existence's most intricate enigmas.
Malnourished worlds are debris in an expanse littered with passionate stares,
Stares that penetrate the transient night to shelter just one.
Then the tantrum flashes back,
Presenting quarreling pairs
who seem to have
Mutualism by Canescen
A poem layered with musings and
meanderings observing the meaningful symbiotic
relationships of all things.
Featured by LiliWrites
the deep blackMostly I am comforted by
the deep black.
Coming back was
waking in the middle of a cheap
carnival at night.
Bells and whistles and flashing lights,
tons of people and nothing making sense
or holding still.
I longed for the silence.
My brain handed me little hallucinations,
like hors d'oeuvres,
pumped full of stimulant and throwing up
ash and Bacardi
and the machines going off
whenever my heartbeat dropped
and they came to shoot me
back up again.
The only thing I'm afraid of is not dying.
I can live and I can die.
But not-dying,
never again.
the deep black by sunshinegypsy
Fear of dying is a common theme in
poetry, but it is usually presented in abstract.
This visceral meditation on an actual
death-experience is tangible and moving.
Prose
Suggested by inknalcohol
Featured by LiliWrites
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Tattoos by alesuriko
Suggester writes: Every tattoo
has a story and the stories behind these
tattoos tell two. They tell the life of the
ink'd one and the love story of the narrator.
Suggested by: LadyofGaerdon
Featured by: SilverInkblot
ObsessionIt takes 14 minutes and twelve seconds to walk to your home from mine every day. Your mother never fails to smile at me when she opens the door. I never fail to notice that it doesn't reach her eyes anymore.
You leave your door open an exact two point three centimeters. I don't think you do it on purpose. There is something wrong with the wood that has left it that way. I pause one foot outside the door and listen to you cough, trying to determine how sick you feel today. I hate that every time I think you are particularly ill, I am always right.
Six months, seventeen days and fourteen hours. That is how long its been since the doctors told us you had an illness. I sat there with your parents, listening to a man who said words like 'terminal' and 'leukemia', and counted the number of times he said 'patient' as if it were your name (Seventeen).
The blood bank says one unit is four hundred and fifty milliliters and I watch as they put the needle into my ar
Obsession by UntamedUnwanted
Suggester: "With great skill and raw
honesty, the author imbues the stark, cold
entity of numbers with deep, radiating
emotion and significance."
Foreign Language
Featured by shebledgreenink
Fuite ou combat by wordeea
Abstract and imaginative, this
poem is the portrait of woman.
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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
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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...
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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