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Ode to deviantArt's Writers by simplyann, literature

they made us read kafka by simplyann, literature

they made us read kafka by simplyann, literature

johndon
hot419fem
cerebralshrike
AngelicLawyer
catching
manchaliaina
WhoKilledKirov
jeconner
anarchypress
gutterbreed
sovegna-vos
Chococat05
hot419fem
magaly
markiss
catching
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Keisei
AngelicLawyer
jeconner
anarchypress
gutterbreed
sovegna-vos
suture
micahgoulart
xxxxxx
Chococat05

Cooking on bloodied rocks by betweensmiles, literature

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I was not special, except in my own mind.  Dearest deviantArt readers, you kept me sane during my final year in high school.  You wrapped me around in your coziness during the first year of college.  When you accepted my poetry, you validated me.  I was special outside of my own mind.  I wrote so much then! And today? I sift through the remaining accounts - no more suture? when did this happen? - and I feel a bit sad.  It's funny, but I do miss the words.  The words, they held my fragile young adult mind together. I miss them. But now it's 2008.  I've grown up, admitted that a few of my poems were about one boy who is probably a man now som
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this is a shout out to everyone out there who stumbles across my page. hello, I'm alive.  I will be resuming all forsaken correspondences shortly.  
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A few days ago I began to write again.  Inspired by Octavia Butler, I began to paint my own future reality, complete with Africa's allure and a female of dreams. How hard it is!  I can write, but I can't see.  I've lost touch with my imagination and my ability to look beyond and without.  I've forgotten how to ask questions of "what if" and answer them with words and images. Once, it came easily.  It was like breathing to sit down, scrap together a few words, run the editing pen over them once and post them to deviantArt or hand them in as a completed assignment.  Now, as I change and grow, I feel like the writing is slipping away, slowly,
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I miss your writing!! Waaah!
thank you for the watch, you write beautifully. i especially love that you type in lowercase :D
thanks for fav
thank you for adding me to your friendslist. :hug:
Thanks for dropping by my DA... hope to see you again...

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Just haven't seen you around for a while. Wanted to send a little love :heart: