I'm suggesting DDs!
I'll probably leave this thread open for a little while. Show me your DD worthy art!
Also, I fancy reading, so drop me any literature you're proud of!
If you fancy looking at anything of mine:
Also, I fancy reading, so drop me any literature you're proud of!
If you fancy looking at anything of mine:
Quakes The only thing telling me I wasn’t dead was the hand that reached into the cage and caressed my sun-burnt skin. Cool droplets of rain kissed my back as I lay face down on the hard ground. With every breath I sucked up more dirt; my throat was painfully dry and my chest ached to collapse. But I didn’t have the energy to sit, or even roll my head to the side.
“What’s wrong with that one? Why is he taking up an entire pen?” The voice was rough and agitated but I couldn’t bring myself to look up.
“He’s sick, sir.” A pause. “He drank from a river on the way over. I didn’t want him to but he was wea--”
“You let them drink downstream?” There was a sharp sound like wood against skin, accompanied by a yelp. “Are you going to give me back what I paid for them? Are you?”
“Please
We Should Climb a Mountain “When you’re older, you’ll realise that school was the peak of your life.”
Mr. Naylor concluded our sixth form assemblies with the same depressing line every week. I didn’t find it depressing back then, only now because I’m coming up close to the end of my education, and it feels like I’m on a train that won’t stop or slow down, and I’m not getting to enjoy the scenery, and we’re going way too fast, and I don’t even know where my stop is, and and and. Everything’s about to change, isn’t it?
Not everything, I guess. Some things never change, like the shakiness of your legs when your feet reach the bottom of a mountain, or the feeling you get when you turn and, looking back up, realise you can’t even see the peak anymore.
Did that really happen? Did we really climb it.
Yes, we did, even
Dying like a dog“God damn it, Toby,” Julian says as he tugs at the covers. I’m twenty-one, but I cling to the duvet and groan like a child moments away from throwing a tantrum. He’s stronger than me, but he sees the redness of my cheeks and decides to let me win. “So what, I’m going to have to get the kids ready on my own?”
I stare past his face because it’s screwed up in anger. Instead, I look at the swirled patterns on the wall paper. He thumps his hand against the set of mahogany drawers. “You promised me you’d try harder.”
I’m sick of his accusations. I’m sick of his shouting. I’m sick altogether. I roll over to face the opposite wall even though it hurts to lay on my left side. He knows this and he sighs, or groans, I can’t decide which. The light falls in strips through the blinds, and I stare at the postcards we’ve collected on our travels. Sometimes he
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Burialif you find this
please
cremate my feelings
put my thoughts in a mausoleum
bury my heart in a wooden coffin
dump my soul into the sea
but
just leave my body here.
EchoesShe handed me an empty notebook
a pill bottle
and a ballpoint pen.
"Here. I can't carry them anymore."
I can still hear her heart beating within them.
Tidal WaveI think it was the telephone calls
that killed her in the end.
The aftershocks of action,
of what she’d done and said.
She hid away from souls and eyes,
she turned around and fled.
But ears are always listening
and words want to be said.
And so the ringing filled her ears,
and seeped into her dreams.
They echoed round the empty house,
scaring away hope of peace.
It’s amazing how blissful ignorance is:
how much we want to forget.
But the worst thing of all is
it’s our nature to regret.
She ran into the forest
where the songs could never come.
Still, despite the distance
it’s deathly hard to find
a place were you are sheltered
from the voices you find inside.
These are probably the best I have. Thank you so much for looking!
I'm quite a fan of this DA artist Ripa666, she's not very well known, but she has some extraordinary works. I've been her watcher for a while now and now quite a fan, I just love her work. She's never received a DD before and I've felt a lot of her artwork is worthy of it.
A couple of hers which I find amazing include these:
That was kinda fun, thanks for opening up this forum!
A couple of hers which I find amazing include these:
That was kinda fun, thanks for opening up this forum!
Thanks for looking at my art work!
If your interested in reading something then feel free to read this
These Medieval SinsThe medieval sins evoked even the strangers in harmony.
The knights came back from battle
The archers stood, still on the castle walls.
As they kept a careful eye on the horizon.
The feast of gluttony was for the knights who came back from battle.
But no one could see the sprinted warning.
If one could see it no one would know the meaning.
Because it was those very medieval sins
that masked the holiness in the halls of the shaded castle.
Even if people thought that this feast of strangers was a holiday
I could hear the piecing scream on the horizon.
But the medieval sins masked everything besides the sins themselves.
As I heard the screams of the fallen
I was away
Then it dawned
The medieval sins melted away
The holiness of the world cradled me in its hands.
Hands that illuminated the shaded castle
It is now a long time later from that day of sinful pleasures.
The day of the fallen I call it now.
But never the less I will never forget those medieval sins.
the mask i polish in the eveningyou are the songs i am afraid to sing,
the cigarettes i won't ever smoke
and i am all the records you won't get around to,
every dangling thread glimmering in false hope.
our days are fast and so surreal,
our nights are wrapped in cold
the midnight sky is laced with our breath,
every story we've ever told.
you hit me like a heart attack,
a storm they couldn't forecast;
you were a brick to the back of my head,
our love was sudden, fast.
you might as well be miles away,
a face that i never would see.
it's been a long time, i think about it a lot,
a long time since you've talked to me.
our ghosts still hover, nightly,
beneath the lights that line my street.
it's nice to know our past selves are happy,
even if our futures decide not to meet.
in a year, you'll be the letters ive left on the table,
unfinished for fear of reply;
and ill be the birds overhead,
waiting for you in the sky.
sy lla bles.i walked around the lake today
at the park
and hoped maybe youd have gotten the (message)
i searched the faces on the benches
they weren't you
they neverever are these days
i was told not to think
about you or anything
apparently i do that far too often
i am not allowed to pick up my phone
to read old mess ag es
or see your face frozen in fleeting happ/i/ness
nothing shines like you do -- did
oh, here i go again
they told me not to re mi nisce
you said we were com/pat/i/ble
i thought so too
your nights end with cheap dates
and mine still end with (you)
any of my stuff is fair game, though, if you want to go through my gallery or something c;