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Without You

last night without you the world did not end, although every building shook. i'm still picking up loose bricks and bits, cleaning house, mending the yard. even now without you. i feel guilty not inviting you. keeping you in the dark. lying-- or at least omitting truths (joyful truths, to be sure)-- to the face of my old friend. still somehow there was fallout. even the absence of you does some damage. even your shadow shakes tables knocks down a drink or two. and this morning it all felt like a dream. like some quaint, sober nightmare. not completely despairing-- rather nice, to be honest-- but still awful like a knife being removed (at last!) from a wound: you can breathe again, for a minute or so, you think, but now there is a new raw, red horror-- the hot sensation of drowning in your own living blood, suffocating, almost, in your own nourishment, breathless, speechless, as the oxygen betrays you, abandons you suddenly. it's almost enough to ask the nurses to put

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3748 deviations
Literature

One Last Time

    I had a dream. You were here for me, you cared for me. You touched me, you loved me. You put a pillow under my head and a blanket over me; cuddling me.    You kissed and held me. You were kissing me all over; gently and roughly; leaving bite marks behind. You held my hand and rubbed my back. You spread panda down and I spread lion down.    You told me goodnight; to sleep well and have sweet dreams. You told me good morning and asked how I slept. You told me you loved me and would always be here for me. You called me kitten and patted my head.    You did the things I love one last time.

Featured

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music meme

inspired by wispy-blue (https://www.deviantart.com/wispy-blue) post: Here are mine: A song you like with a color in the title Lavender Burning by Half Waif A song you like with a number in the title Need 2 by Pinegrove A song that reminds you of summertime Better Together by Jack Johnson A song that reminds you of someone you'd rather forget about Elephant by Damien Rice A song that needs to be played LOUD Wake Up by Arcade Fire A song that makes you want to dance Trndsttr by Black Coast, M. Maggie, Lucian   A song to drive to Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun by M83 A song about drugs or alcohol No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross by Sufjan Stevens

thank you - i got featured or mentioned here

99 deviations
Literature

Rain Check

I cringe at myself as you turn to walk yourself home. Every time we part I wish I was different. I never know if I know what to say in these quiet moments with you. I almost cancelled because of the rain. I opened the thick door and it poured. "Rain check?" I asked. You didn't respond. Then it stopped. "Seems to have abated. On my way." I think about the word 'abated' the whole train ride. You're the only person I don't have to dumb down my texts for. The sky was milk-white-- the sky was white like our paper cups-- holding in some burning darkness, bitter dark, which we nursed over chapped lips while we caught up. You were at the hospital each day this week, each day a unique tenderness. You woke this morning, said you stared at the walls until 11:00. What is a kettle? Why is a kettle? Water goes in the kettle... I don't know how to say, "Sometimes I worry for you..." You mentioned the Denver news. You mentioned the Denver newspaper. The actual news paper. "The actual

daily deviations and dlr suggestions

6 deviations
Literature

Without You

last night without you the world did not end, although every building shook. i'm still picking up loose bricks and bits, cleaning house, mending the yard. even now without you. i feel guilty not inviting you. keeping you in the dark. lying-- or at least omitting truths (joyful truths, to be sure)-- to the face of my old friend. still somehow there was fallout. even the absence of you does some damage. even your shadow shakes tables knocks down a drink or two. and this morning it all felt like a dream. like some quaint, sober nightmare. not completely despairing-- rather nice, to be honest-- but still awful like a knife being removed (at last!) from a wound: you can breathe again, for a minute or so, you think, but now there is a new raw, red horror-- the hot sensation of drowning in your own living blood, suffocating, almost, in your own nourishment, breathless, speechless, as the oxygen betrays you, abandons you suddenly. it's almost enough to ask the nurses to put

poems inspiring me to write my own

1833 deviations
Literature

it's a trick I learned somewhere

I press my hands against a door, and I have to accept that I’m kind of always hoping for some sliver of light to come down on my head and explain why I always go back for what isn’t there, why I do my best not to reach out to anyone - how I don’t use my hands to hold the curtains drawn, and wonder why I fail to feel. the edge of the bed, or the nightstand drawer can tell you how I feel like I could scream if I just knew that my heart wasn’t beating somewhere in there where the light never gets. it’s a trick to imagine where this head ends up in the dark with the stars reaching in to the awful automatons of my thoughts.

short poetry - beauty in brevity

1064 deviations
Literature

Abe at the funeral

Trigger Warning: death of a loved one Abe was 25 years old and surprised by the sharpness of how few years separated himself from his parents. He was more aware of it now than even when he reached the age that they were when he was born, which had certainly been its own kind of shock. His father was now frozen in time, and would never age, which meant that someday – soon – Abe would be older than his father. It seemed like a good idea to get his life together before that happened.  His mother was holding his right hand, and smiled at him, though there were tears on her cheeks. In his mother’s right hand was Izzie’s

short story - beauty in brevity

206 deviations
Literature

Dear Diary

Dear Diary, The sickness that has afflicted our town for two weeks has now claimed a victim within my own household. Father had a coughing spell and found blood upon his handkerchief on Tuesday. By Thursday we had the blue mark applied to our door. Mother had no time to mourn, with the baby so near, she had to busy us with selling Father’s most prized possessions. I sobbed when his pocket watch was traded for a solitary egg. The townsfolk were weary trading with us. No one is sure how the sickness is passed; it crossed my mind that Father’s belongings may have been contaminated. In other news, William has lost his first tooth an

fiction - stories worth revisiting

121 deviations
Literature

Chronicle

Calendar days and the X’s exist like hourglass grains even if you never cross them off, never mark their passing to countdown your fade and slip as the damages build and build, threatening to wash you away under their weight, under their insistence that erosion occurs to us all regardless of the stones and friends we cling to, and hope for, as we watch them dissolve away beneath our fingers like so much wasted breath and wasted years- so let them go, maybe its time to say goodbye.

nonfiction - heart stories

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Self-Portrait Mid 2018

lovely deviantart people

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A journey of colors

stuff - cuteness all around me

67 deviations
Ben Heine Photography

photography - silent beauty

24 deviations
Master's Sun... So JiSub and Gong HyoJin

creativity - out of the box

21 deviations
Spike

little bits of nostalgia

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Project Portfolio

Hi everybody :wave: :new: You will be notified as soon as Session 2 starts! :la: Thank you for your patience :huggle: And here are the winners for the First Session! Project Portfolio - Session 1: Overview We would like to invite you to a project meant to promote your work!(Yeah, time for some shameless self-promotion!  ) What you need to do 1)    a) Create a Journal Entry* where you include           :bulletblue: some of your works, in a way you think they shine best!           :bulletblue: artists you look up to in dA, with 1 to 4 artworks from their work           :bulletblue: you can also mention persons you would like to enc

great features

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Ten More Characters

Part One Felt like doing another set :) Ten characters that mean something to me. No order, one character per franchise. 1. Loki Marvel Cinematic Universe I was introduced to Loki through the Avengers. While I enjoyed him as a villain, it wasn't until I went back and watched Thor that I grew to love the layers in his character. He stays collected in the chaos he causes and gets some of the best lines in the MCU. I've always felt like he was underused in the movies; what we got was great, but there was a lot more potential for shenanigans there. 2. Varian Tangled: The Series I've only seen bits and pieces of this series, but the boy snag

journals for keeps

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How to write an article for Project Educate

Project Educate Welcome to a step-by-step tutorial addressing how you should be writing your article for projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate)! Please read carefully through this article, and closely observe each screenshot so that you can have a good understanding on how to proceed as you publish what might be the first of many PE articles! :dummy: Step 1: You're on DeviantArt, possibly wondering what "sta.sh" is and where you can find it. Step 2: Hover over that big "Submit" button, and you'll find a few drop-down options. One of them is sta.sh! Click on it. Step 3: You've clicked on sta.sh, and now you're seeing this page. As you can see, there are many opti

useful references

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Don Quijote

you do not let go of something pretty

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