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Hello my dear, dear Watchers!

How are you wonderful folks?

Things are pretty great on my end...but I haven't really written much in a looooooong time, and this is where you come in! My lovely, lovely Watchers, will you collaborate with me? Any of you? All of you? We can write anything from rhyming couplets to sonnets. Introduce me to your favourite form! I can do serious or silly. I'm open to anything. I'll try everything, at least twice(and then once more, seven years later, in case my tastes have changed! ;)) Shoot me a note and let's make beautiful poetry together. Or prose. I'm also up for prose.

OK, now that the shameless begging is over, guess who's adopting a second dog? That's right! Me! His name is Peanut! I pick him up tomorrow after supper and I'm so excited!!! Another furry child to add to the clan McCormick! I'm going to spoil him. And my sister's already in proud auntie mode(yes, we're those kind of dog and cat people. Between my brother and sister, I have three fur nieces, and I couldn't love human children more than I love them!)  :la:

*ahem* Oooookay, I think I've gushed enough for one day. I'm going to sign off now, but I look forward to hearing how your day, month, year, life is going! And hopefully, some of you will be interested in collaborating. :)

Hope you have an amazing day! I love all of you!

:heart:Sylvia

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Hello, hello! Welcome to DailyLitRecognition's first New Artist Highlight! Once a month, isabellaswancullen and I(aka draecana) will choose an artist new to deviantArt and feature them in an article. We will pick out a couple pieces from their gallery and have a little Q&A time with the writer.

So, without further ado, the feature.

This month, we have chosen an artist very new to the dA scene; the spectacular soulspoken!

Let Me FlyIf Hope has feathers,
As Miss Dickinson
Says,
Then make me a bird.
I want to own feathers.
I want to fly free.
But may I never
Be caged by society.
Let me be
And I will sing
Sing for you
And me and them and,
Most especially,
For You.

Featured by: draecana

Full of hope and love, and poignant in its simplicity, this piece speaks to the freedom to be found in both. A lovely, lovely first submission in a quickly growing gallery, and an excellent addition to the collective works of our wonderful community of artists.


Cheers to YouRemember when you said
Everyone's a fake?
I remember your eyes,
Your dagger eyes,
Piercing my soul.
I think you struck a nerve.
Our regular group at our regular place,
Phonies sipping their cups
With mini saucer
Clinkclinkclinking
Constantly.
All the chit-chat in between
Long pauses
Made my head spin.
You turned to me blind
With apathy.
"Everyone's a fake."
I looked down in my cup,
Saw the bag half-floating
Half-
S
 I
   N
    K
   I
  N
   G
And imagined my soul
Being absorbed by this crowd.
I tugged the bag string
And placed it gracefully
On my tiny saucer.
And you, with your eyes
Like blades
And words like tainted syrup,
Sunk back into the liquid conversation
Of clinks, chinks, pauses,
And fakes.

Featured by: isabellaswancullen


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The hand that holds the pen
Q&A with the artist

Why did you start writing?

I think I started writing mainly because I saw what writing did for me. I saw all these words and I read them and I became in love with them. I mean what else are you able to look at and enter a completely different world for awhile? Words are so powerful and I think that we don't give them enough credit. Sure we use them every single day of our lives but perhaps we do not really truly understand how important they really are. So I think that's one of the major things that made me want to write. I wanted to capture moments and things and images and events just as the authors I was reading were. It's an amazing art and one that, I think, should be taken more seriously. It's beautiful. It's simply and wonderfully beautiful.

What is your inspiration?

Inspiration? Well....let's see. I think my biggest inspiration would be people. I love to watch people and see how they react to things. I love to see what people do in response to events that happen whether expected or unexpected. What makes a person think the way they do? What makes a person behave to harshly when faced with anonymity as opposed to how they would react to a person in real life? I think that everything I do is based on that and my writing is an extension of that. Another inspiration would be the people I know. Some people here may know my friend Dave (givemeyourscars). He is one of the friends that has inspired me and his imaginative work really pushes my mind into a new world of understanding for many things I already know as well as things I don't know. Lol so many inspirations! I think these are some good ones to mention right now.

Do you have a favorite piece in your gallery?

Well to be honest I never really thought about that before on a whole scale. I guess what I could say is that it would either be "Let Me Fly" or "Cheers to You." Those two poems I think really capture the main point of my entire writing philosophy. I think that everything I have written and will write in the future revolves and will revolve around the themes in those two poems.

What is your impression of dA and this group so far

Oh, goodness. I am loving my time here at dA! I haven't been able to be as active lately as I would like for a lot of reasons but I always absolutely love coming back. For a little while I watched around and read a few things while lurking. I didn't really know if I had the confidence to join dA and post all of my work on here. And then after reading a lot of work I stumbled on TheseKrimzonFlames's work and everything he said and believed about writing. I really took to that and felt like his words were inspired. And then they inspired me! Lol. So then I joined and boy....I do not regret it at all! All of the people here and all the people I have met have really helped me out even in the short amount of time I have been here. As for this group I think it is an amazing idea! Being able to feature writers on a website that does not get much attention for them at all is truly a worthy cause. I think that the work the group is doing is amazing and the volunteers that help make it happen should be given the recognition they deserve as true contributors to this website.

Suggestions?

Honestly I don't know about the goings on of dA to really understand how things could be run better. Right now I think that things are moving along really well. I mean this new artist feature is an amazing idea. I am not saying that only because I am being featured right now by the way lol! But I think that all the people should keep it up and keep helping writers out there. I know that I have appreciated the help with my writing already. Thank you so much to all that have helped!


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Well, they you have it, folks! Our first New Artist feature! Hope you enjoyed it! Until next time, Sylvia(draecana) and Tori(isabellaswancullen).
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...a lack of inspiration. ;)

I have brazenly stolen this idea from :iconbetwixtthepages:.

The first THIRTY people to comment on this journal will get a piece of writing (poetry only, please) from me because I haven't written anything in a while and I need some help in the inspiration department.

What can you do to help little ol' me?

1. Comment on this journal
2. Give me an idea what you'd like the poem to be about
3. Mention any other pertinent information/specifics (i.e. "I want a haiku" or "I want something that rhymes")

Nothing is forbidden, everything is permitted, people! Help an amateur writer out! :)
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Hello hello!

I've learned some very important things over the past few weeks;

   1) The kindness of strangers is absolutely amazing.

   2) I'm not only capable of functioning with a broken heart, I'm capable of healing and jumping into the fray again. Without fear.

   3) It's not in my nature to be negative for very long. I am simply incapable of being so. It's exhausting and wasteful. In the words of E.E.Cummings,

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

Life's too short to not go all in, all the time. So, I'm going to keep falling in love like it's the first time, I'm going to keep being fearless and ridiculously cheerful and 'stupidly' optimistic.
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I feel angrysadlonelybrokendead. I'm losing hope, floundering, drowning. And I don't know how to stop this, how to save myself this time. I keep telling myself that I'm strong, I keep smiling, but I can feel my insides crumbling. There's a dead spot in my heart and it hurts so goddamn much. I can barely breathe. There's this pressure building up in me, filling me, and I don't know how to deal with it. It's too much. It's killing me.

Helpmepleasehelpme.
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