The Saturday Spotlight for October 4th, 2014

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Saturday Spotlight for October 4th, 2014

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Today's featured deviant is:

:star:successwithhonor!:star:





Questions


1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your writing.

Ahh, the origins story:

I actually started writing verse in middle school, mainly as the development of my suave singer boy persona I employed (mostly unsuccessful) to woo girls. Once I got to high school, I was quickly caught up in the popular culture/social tangle of it all, and abandoned writing for other pursuits. I picked it up again my junior year, after having had a sort of artistic awakening in the 16 months of my grounding. In my final year, I met someone who really pushed the authenticity of me and supported my expression. It was the first time I really began to see writing as the eloquently powerful and liberating thing that it is, and I really began develop it as the extension of myself. Since, I haven't been able to put down the pen.

For me, writing has become a coping mechanism, a stimulant, a lover, a conversation I've needed to have, and always so much more. I mainly stick to poetry, because I feel as though it really does capture the true essence of my heart, without the bounds of constriction or even coherency.





2. How do you feel about dA as a literature community?

Honestly, dA has been the most incredible support system I could've never asked for. The community is this breathing organism of life, where you can literally find anything you're looking for. Here I have found people I am blessed to call dear friends, and I can't even imagine the development of my literary identity without it.





3. What is your writing process like?

Oh gosh. It totally depends. I always carry around a notebook (of my phone), to jot down ideas and lines when they come to me— that's how they come to me, like little postcards from somewhere else. Usually, starting is the hard part. When I began writing spoken word pieces, I tended to stick more to lists, as I found it much easier organizationally.

I wouldn't even say I have a writing process— it comes when it is time for it to.





4. What themes do you like to incorporate in your writing?

As a creature cursed with the everlong battle that is depression, I've always had this sort of fascination with death and the past.

A pen and paper have saved my life before, and I cannot thank them enough for that.

With this sense of loss, however, is the glorification of all that is life and diverse and experiential on this planet. I subscribe to the notion that all human beings can feel the very same things— that is, of course, in response to different stimuli— but that all of those feelings and their contexts are uniquely ours to share with mankind as a whole.

The plight of mankind, I suppose, is a metatheme that all artists explore in their work, and I look to quantify that context in a way that reflects the subaltern, the shadowy, and the often overlooked aspects of humanity.





5. Where do your best ideas come from? Is it mostly internal, or do you prefer to pull from your environment?

They're all connected. I know that sounds cheesy as shit but there's this marriage between the internal and universe around it. Inevitably nothing eternal is yours. I try to write about my experience, because that is the purest thing I can offer to the world.





Poetry

"beetlejugo" by palaeochannel6





Gazaa shroud approaches me from the side
it's grey with wide, wide eyes
it follows me and brings a melancholy
it's wide eyes are like bloodshot
wolves in water
why does it follow me
what have i done, i know not
i do know it means to cause
an uncalled for resentment
where the implement of death
will furrow the fields
and blood uncalled for becomes  
a withering harvest of tongues
that cast upon the world
vile, putrid and villainous words
whose untruth becomes the cause
of bloodstained vocabularies
way beyond all compass
giving speech to black shadows
where these congregated silhouettes
dump their nightmares  
and two perfectly disturbing towers
plant signs in defiant ground
ignoring the tragedy this setting shall provide
causing a destruction as it goes
destroying the sparkle of the universe
through all the ages
ending in an eternity of shrouds

"Gaza" by edgarwhitmanwilde





bornstillthe bird is just a
melancholic ghost
of its egg

"bornstill" by photosynthetichuman





thoughtsaw/separatorloners are disgraceful/nobody in that room knows a thing about duty/there's a disorder for everything/a scoopful of hospital/much like gaps are sewn up with terrorism threats/anyone can be towed to clean acceptable bay/with shaved heads and soft-boiled skins
nobody protests here nor will they mop up the spilled yolks/don't look westward mad angel/home is not where a dead embryo of anger tops the cocktail/harmless you have holes in your palms

"thoughtsaw/separator" by ghostinafog





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& thanks for the feature, guys!! :heart: :heart: :heart: