It's back! With the goal of bringing a little cheer to patients in the hospital during the holiday season, the deviantART Holiday Card Project connects deviants from around the world and applies their tremendous artistic abilities in designing and creating uplifting holiday cards.
In past years, the Project has received more than 5,000 cards sent in by more than 1,000 deviants from 50 different countries/political regions. Cards were then divvied up and distributed in-person by deviantART members to local Los Angeles, CA hospitals, with additional cards given to various hospitals in the U.S. and abroad for hospital staff members to hand out
Breathing in our Bird Cage by Squidgeroonio, literature
Literature
Breathing in our Bird Cage
Sometimes I forget all I've been through,
Why you could so easily break my heart,
Sometimes I dream about the nightmares,
Demons that could tear us apart.
Sometimes I watch you in silence,
Washing the shadows from my mind.
As you open to my soul, and take a step through
A million beady-eyed demons are waiting for you,
They grimace as your footprints re-create a path
One they've spent time breaking
O'weary warrior continue forth,
The relief I feel is consuming
Driving, twisting, falling, feeling
Move with me, be my healing.
You stand before the cage, watch as I sit and swing
Not a bird or feather about, only a girl to be seen
Rags of ma
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Rules to enter the Contest "Summertime and the livin' is easy"
This contest is running on the group AllArtSupport (https://www.deviantart.com/allartsupport) but the members of the affiliated groups Soulcollectors (https://www.deviantart.com/soulcollectors), TheFavouriteShowcase (https://www.deviantart.com/thefavouriteshowcase), TraditionalPainting (https://www.deviantart.com/traditionalpainting) and Global-Photos (https://www.deviantart.com/global-photos) are also welcome to submit to the contest folder;
The contest starts on the 30th June 2015 and you have until the 31st August 2015 (it won't be extended) to submit;
All works should be new (posted on DA from the 30th June 2015 until the end of the contest);
You may submit 2 pieces (any medium, except literature): one piece in July and other piece in August; If you didn't submit in J
You are all a work of art by Tangled-Tales, literature
Literature
You are all a work of art
Take me to
an art museum,
and tell me
I am the most beautiful thing
in the room
grab my shoulders, and
shout to the gallery-goers,
"do not touch
this girl,
this work of art."
She touched your heart then ripped it out
She broke you like a twig
Drank your blood
Drowning in it
She sucked you dry
She left you high
She poisoned your mind
She got inside of your soul and asked for your love
And you gave in
Willingly
Drinking her, tasting her pain
Getting within and letting her win
You became her rain
Saving rain in the empty dessert that is her heart
She fell apart
You broke her down
With your love
With your damaged soul
With your poisoned mind
You saved her
By falling in love with the darkest of them all