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Daily Deviation
June 5, 2014
the flower club by Personghost puts an amusing and vivid twist on confessional poetry; as the suggester says, "I couldn't get the imagery out of my head".
Featured by ShadowedAcolyte
Suggested by saltwaterlungs
Literature Text
dear preacher,
i've got something to admit
last sunday
i was in the field
i was watching the flowers get dressed
well they're just so pretty naked
petals tucked into their sides
and watching them unfold
i was watching them pull down the sunrise
and put it on themselves
so i'm a sinner for it
cause i watched them bathe, too
stand around together in the shower
a hundred ladies in their beautiful skins
pink small ones
big blue proud ones
letting the droplets collect and residue
on their finery and shamelessly bare leaves
well that's my confession preacher
i watch the flowers strip and tease
i've got something to admit
last sunday
i was in the field
i was watching the flowers get dressed
well they're just so pretty naked
petals tucked into their sides
and watching them unfold
i was watching them pull down the sunrise
and put it on themselves
so i'm a sinner for it
cause i watched them bathe, too
stand around together in the shower
a hundred ladies in their beautiful skins
pink small ones
big blue proud ones
letting the droplets collect and residue
on their finery and shamelessly bare leaves
well that's my confession preacher
i watch the flowers strip and tease
Literature
Small Talk
It's dripping with logic and reason
the question you let gently drop
onto the table between us,
“So, tell me about your life.”
And I'm watching it carefully
telling myself it won't bite
it's more scared of me than I am
and I can capture it with glass.
And I can't rest the answer there
because it's bigger and scarier
and this one will bite will sink
will tear apart the careful stitches.
It's too big for this table
and I can't put it onto you
so it weighs heavy on my neck
and the silence stretches further.
Literature
They say the one who prays
They say the one who prays receives much more
than whom we pray for, shaping what we want
to what we get. We find a way to pour
the outcomes into candle molds we can't
have fashioned for ourselves. But then we light
the wax and sniff the scent and call us blessed
by blessings in disguise. For what is right
in contexts so complex we cannot test?
For those who say that praying contradicts
free will or undercuts the will to change
injustice, fine. You have no wax, no wicks,
no blessing and no curse, you are the sage.
I pray to sculpt the candle and the mold
and scent with pity earth and heaven's hold.
Literature
Shallow Water
It was just a little kiddie pool in the backyard, unlovely pink-and-yellow plastic under the hot summer sun. But on those nights when Mom came home from the swing shift tired and met Daddy sitting in the kitchen angry, it was Amy’s only sanctuary.
She wasn’t a sound sleeper. Her parents still talked about how it had taken her infant self six months to sleep more than two or three hours at a time. During the school year, when her life was full of classes and friends and sports, it was easier to drop off, but summer nights were always more difficult. They were hotter, for one thing, and the long, indolent, inactive days often left
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HOLY CRAP A DAILY DEVIATION NO WAY. I was so confused when i opened my inbox, I figured there was no way this could be mine :') Thank you so so much to saltwaterlungs for suggesting it holy CRAp I'm still freaking out THANK YOU GUYS I DON'T EVEN DESERVE THIS YOU ARE ALl SO NICE WOW THANK YOU AGAIN
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Congrats on the DD
Small edits:
cause i watched them bathe, too
(since you use a comma on the first line, I'm assuming you are using commas)
Also a bit puzzled why some of the "i's" are uppercase and some are lower case... may want to revisit that if you seek publication elsewhere with this piece
Small edits:
cause i watched them bathe, too
(since you use a comma on the first line, I'm assuming you are using commas)
Also a bit puzzled why some of the "i's" are uppercase and some are lower case... may want to revisit that if you seek publication elsewhere with this piece