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If the gallery you want to submit to is full, let us know ASAP!
Do not submit materials that are against DeviantARTs TOS.
We only accept Literature (including visual poetry / prose).
If your story has, or will have, more than one chapter please submit it to one of our 'Chapters' folders. The short stories folders are for singular works, Chapters are for extended works that are told through multiple submissions.
Feel free to feedback. If something doesn't work for you, let us know! We will take it into account and see what works best for other members using the same feature.
You cannot submit to our Featured folder. We use this to highlight the artists we have featured in our Today's Featured Writer articles.
If critiquing a piece of work make sure you remain encouraging.
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Today's Featured Writer: intricately-ordinary
TheWritePlace aims to highlight incredible work from some of our community's talented writers with our series of Featured Writers. You can see previous articles here in our Archive.
Today we are featuring intricately-ordinary.
defeathered
defeatheredand this is where we bury our hearts,
between self-defeating personality disorders
and burnt bridges and midnight ramblings
we promise ourselves aren’t true;
embedding our memories in forsaken homes
like it is a conscious decision to shed
our wings (reptiles don’t fly)
and maybe I am the monster of every
myth: wide-eyed and jagged toothed and
looking to regain a piece of myself the
world borrowed, many moons ago
as I falter and stumble over my own unaware
feet, wreaking havoc, reeking of self-acquittal--
all I ever wanted to do was belong.
dreams are flaws much like the hearts we
flaunt on our sleeves, and I seem to
have lent all mine away; I am
something entirely ignorant, in the dark,
believing fingers fumbling can find answers.
they never told me reflections are backwards
and the world spins the wrong way and
hurricanes are really an embodiment
of all our own withdrawals:
but one day, these walls will crumble,
and I will learn to breathe in dust.
"and this is where we bury our hearts,
between self-defeating personality disorders
and burnt bridges and midnight ramblings
we promise ourselves aren’t true;"
Suggested by PoetryOD "A haunting poem, raw with truth."
tiny vessels
tiny vesselsgod cried for us that afternoon
on the rocks, if I could be so
selfish; you had your hands
grasping at my empty vapors before
I’d had the chance to whisper
to you. I see you
shaking. I know you’re
hungry and I know
the temperature of your
eyes when you lie. you
said you were lonely.
half-truths are the essence
of symbiotic relationships, your
fingers trailing along my hips,
glacier blue eyes holding me
still. the rapids churned. god
cried for me that afternoon.
he was selfish, too.
"half-truths are the essence
of symbiotic relationships,"
Suggested by PoetryOD "A fragile poem full of uncertain tensions"
reasons why we should be in love
Suggested by PoetryOD "Utterly relatable, a poem of the things we may think but never speak of beautifully executed"
This feature was compiled by PoetryOD.
If you would like to suggest someone to be featured feel free to note a member of our Feature Team with a couple of their deviations and why you think they should recieve more attention.
If you would like to suggest someone to be featured feel free to note a member of our Feature Team with a couple of their deviations and why you think they should recieve more attention.
Our Team
The lovely folks who keep this group running by volunteering their time and passion!
PoetryOD, Mrs-Freestar-Bul, Jade-Pandora, ShackledMuse, AyeAye12, InklingsOfOblivion, maxnort, MusicInducedDaydream, nosedivve, skipwr3ck, Haegun, PennedinWhite, DonShugar, vigour-mortis, days-be-strange, exarobibliologist, InklingsOfOblivion, 24-Stars-of-Nirvana, katt2015, kiwi-damnation, PoeticMolecules and angelserum
Want to join us? Click here to see open positions and think about getting involved!
PoetryOD, Mrs-Freestar-Bul, Jade-Pandora, ShackledMuse, AyeAye12, InklingsOfOblivion, maxnort, MusicInducedDaydream, nosedivve, skipwr3ck, Haegun, PennedinWhite, DonShugar, vigour-mortis, days-be-strange, exarobibliologist, InklingsOfOblivion, 24-Stars-of-Nirvana, katt2015, kiwi-damnation, PoeticMolecules and angelserum
Want to join us? Click here to see open positions and think about getting involved!
Eternal Love
The following people donated towards the costs of this group and we are eternally grateful to them:
Alessiah, AyeAye12, PoetryOD, DonShugar, Energuella, Farand, IntraSect, martinemes, PoeticMolecules, mutt-face, nihilist-0, reedymanedkelpie, vigour-mortis, Kithanna, nightshade-keyblade, Melalina and spoems
Alessiah, AyeAye12, PoetryOD, DonShugar, Energuella, Farand, IntraSect, martinemes, PoeticMolecules, mutt-face, nihilist-0, reedymanedkelpie, vigour-mortis, Kithanna, nightshade-keyblade, Melalina and spoems