Saturday Spotlight for February 8th, 2013

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Today's featured deviant is:
TheLunaLily!

Questions

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

My passion is writing. I've written short stories since I was young, tried my hand at a novel (unsuccessfully) when I was older, and now I write prose, though not very often. I did write a prose piece last year that I had a lot of fun with, though.

However, my heart truly lies with poetry. I "wrote" my first one when I was two, (so technically I dictated and my mom penned it).

Poetry is my love and my lifeline, my drug and my therapy, my escape to anywhere, worlds at my whim. To me writing is endless possibilities.

I'm inspired by many things; mythology, my life, love, tragedy, art, literature, music, the world around me and human nature, both the light and the dark, but mostly the many shades of grey that we are.

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

Deviant Art is a community of creative, talented people that is wonderful to be a part of. The support here has been incredible and being able to have feedback, positive and critical, has helped me to grow over the few years that I’ve been here. Having prompts and friends to challenge me, to give me inspiration, to be better, and to push me to try something new is a gift. I wished I joined this site years ago, and that the fear of submitting my poetry to have it online for anyone to read had not held me back.

3. Are there any authors that you feel have been an influence on your work?

Shakespeare writing, his characters, complex and tragic, set anywhere from castles to faerie forests, Rome, Scotland, England, Verona, Denmark, etc. And since Greek and Roman mythology fascinates me and always has, when I read Ovid's Metamorphosis it was a revelation. It had all the tragedy of the Greek tales, and also hope. It was beautiful, the transformations, sometimes justified, sometimes incredibly sad, but sometimes there was the hope of a second chance. Both writers use their characters to reveal the faults, the weaknesses and the strength and beauty in human nature. Ovid shows that even the gods are less than perfect with all the jealous, petty vindictive inclinations that we mortals are prone to.

4. Do you ever re-write your pieces, or do you let them come as they will? How long do you have to work on a piece before you can consider it "finished?"

Oh I rewrite my work quite a lot, most of the time. Occasionally there will be a piece that I will write and think that it came out just as it was meant to. I'm a perfectionist though, and very hard on myself, always worried that it's not good enough.

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

I guess I would say internal, because I'm always thinking, it's difficult to shut it off. Sometimes it's just completely random things, and I think that's where I get some of the best, or at least my favorite, poems from. Suddenly the most random line will pop into my head, I have know idea where they come from, I'm not thinking about it, but once the line is there, I have to write it down, and sometimes the rest of the poem starts forming quickly, almost too fast for me to write. A good example is,

"Vamp for the worlds ending
with gilt lashes sharpened for the killing."

In the end, I need to express myself as much as I just really want to tell a good story and draw the reader in.

Poetry

La Femme Fatale Joyeux           Vamp for the worlds ending   with gilt lashes sharpened for the killing.   Traipse drunkenly in steel-toed slippers,         inhale spring and exhale winter.         Trace epigrams upon the man,           draw epitaphs into the sand;            all hail your scarlet fever.
"La Femme Fatale Joyeux" by TheLunaLily


AvianYou used to tell her she had bird bones— it was only a joke, but you would hold her tightly so she could not fly away.Now you carry starlings in your pockets to feel their little hearts fluttering much like hers did when you lay your head upon her chest, heart beating the way yours did, before she flew away with it as you always knew she would. Tonight you are haunted by a swan with a broken neck. It is a dream, just a nightmare, but you know that it is her...She has returned to you decked out in feathers, choking on a heart, and you're frightened as hell at how god damn beautiful she is in broken symmetry ,but you find relief in your fi...
"Avian" by TheLunaLily


Addicted to Heroines
"Addicted to Heroines" by TheLunaLily


CosmologyShe left galaxies on his pillowcase where she slept the night before of make up colors, shimmer, shadow, smudged and smeared, blurred by silent tears - alive ... the stars leaked out with the saline – along with the residue of dreams that she never meant to have. Chips of polish decorate his bed sheets, rogue satellites from her chewed and broken nails, after scratching at the too-low ceiling and his too-close back while she slept fitfully, searching desperately for space.
"Cosmology" by TheLunaLily




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