Daily Lit Deviations for March 25^th, 2010

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Poetry

_{featured by: TheBrassGlass}
beauty macabre..
there is something tragic in the way
I view you with eyes
the wrong
colour..
the sky tonight is shapeless,
it resembles the love that rises
darkly hollow in my chest,
formless
and morbid..
misery in a velveteen dress
ever cautious not to choke on the hues,
i meticulously manipulate the colours that cloak you,
like a crow that picks at the flesh of a mourning dove
to reveal supple bones of elegant white
..caw-caw
[you make my lips itch for a
cigarette and my lashes twitch
in a neurotic butterfly tick]
and the way you st-stutter
whilst you choke on the shadows,
is quaintly hypnotic
timid muse,
i adore you..
would you find it odd
if i were to bathe the moon in feathered blood
only to pale its shine so that the stars
that lace you
burn just a little more beautiful?
and if i were to scratch into your eyes,
with the severed limbs of a love-struck poet,
the image of me wrapped in a sonnet
would these words whisper open your sight?
[never open your sight]
because with eyes the right colour,
thetanglebox.deviantart.com/ar…"beauty macabre") by thetanglebox

<sub>Bits captivating rhythm and ambitious
metaphors and language set this piece apart.


Featured by hell-on-a-stick</sub>
Getawayhe's a stoic collection of things--
raw mud-christened that grit half-covers
his face, eyes that flush radiance out
like a car's engine in a city swelter,
a steady jaw latched shut from years
of breaking falls
and a bar.
no one comes, he doesn't sell booze
or place out peanut baskets--
no olives, no darts -- just dusty
bottles along shelves in a basement
and a television flicker for sports
or a comforting glow
"Getaway" by VictorCarbon

<sub>Always serenely tongue in cheek with a hammer,
a chisel and a chainsaw VictorCarbon's sparse
gallery yields up some black gems of cynicism,
understanding and some guffaws too.


Suggested by TheBrassGlass
Featured by KneelingGlory</sub>

"Cut Throat" by fauxgravity

_{A "poignant and contempory" visual poem
that mixes great pathos with dark sarcasm.}

Prose

_{featured by: Kitri-du-Lac}
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"An Apology in Defense of Books" by dagnysmoiety

<sub>This is a beautifully written personal
response to the rise of the digital e-readers.
It shows great balance of feeling, fact and evidence,
reading like a well thought out arguement as well as
a personal opinion. It is refined and avoids any extreme
outburst of emotion, which only makes it more effective.
A lovely non-fiction piece.


Featured by itsaki</sub>
AFortress...His embrace… a fortress…
Her bumper sticker is peeling.  The one that says 'I (heart) my Marine!'  It's been months, but it's still true, so she keeps it, letting it peel and fade in the weather like a scab.  Like a scar.
The sticker is hers, the truck is his.  Nevermind that all the paperwork is now in her name.  Nevermind he hasn't driven it in a year or more.  She drives it to work, and pumps the high-priced gas, and pays to have the summer tires swapped for the snows.  But it's his truck.
The wall above the bed becomes his shrine.  She papers it with photos.  His high school senior photo.  Their prom photos.  Photos of him with his brother, his sisters, his dogs.  Photos of him hugging his mother, laughing with his father.  Photos of the two of them hiking, swimming, lounging on the couch, playing touch football with their friends
AFortress... by KreepingSpawn

_{An amazing, heart-wrenching piece about a lost
Marine's wife, and how she lives her days without him,
yet she keeps his memories alive every day. A truly
emotional piece, it is able to fill the reader
with the same emotion of loss and sadness.}




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