January Group Feature!

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Hello, members!! :D I'm so happy that this group has grown to the level it has and even more grateful for all the deviations you've contributed. :love:

I want to start off the year with a feature of some notable deviants from this group. I'll try to do a feature like this every month, so that everyone has a chance of getting more exposure. Please check out these artist's profiles and if you love what they do: give them lots of comments, faves, and watches. :hug:

xxNIKICHENxx
Fashion-monger study by xxNIKICHENxx Toro Yu Zhu study by xxNIKICHENxx Kitsune Yin by xxNIKICHENxx

Frank-Jaspers
RaindropsI am exhausted because writing
         Exhausts the spirit
The way tornadoes wear out the wind.
I fall to sleep and my thoughts
         Are a bed of pebbles
Soaking up the rain of sentience.
We welter together
—My thoughts and me—
         We slip away
With the lazy weather.
Then work comes
With grinding wheels
And coughing machines,
To fill dreamstreets with cold humidity,
With soot and oil and leathery boots.
Further down —far past
         The industrial avenues—
The coffee vendors with their poppy bagels,
         A crowd or two,
Seedy strangers with unmovable expressions,
And a few street girls hustling for sugar
—No doubt to fill their little cups.
I flag
A sun-colored cab down
         To the docks
         That face Hoboken.
I stretch
My hand to write the river Hudson.
I am
Change in a Coffee CupIt’s 1998 and you're in New York.
You sit Buddha-style
         Like a beggar’s cup
         On a cold Brooklyn sidewalk.
The passersby stuff coins in you
         Like a karma slot machine;
         They measure their generosity
         Against your God-bless-you's. 
Raised, reared, reviled in Texas —
         That’s where you'll return to;
         Less welcome than a polished
         Thief dry-drifting through
                   Oil-rich streets.
You are a blood-warm stain on the sidewalk;
         Bitter as wormwood, pale as pigeon
         Shit, dirty like a soiled rubber, pleading
         Like an empty coffee cup 
 
Orange PeelsI miss the taste of oranges,
I miss how they tasted when I dug
       Into their skin
       And peeled them open with bitter teeth
       (I used to do that back in the third grade).
Some people get an acrid grimace
       Just thinking about biting orange peels.  
But in my youth there were things far more bitter:
       San Diego job hunts and depressions I didn't understand,
       The vomit smell of so-much Rum and Whiskey
       And piss-cheap beer,
       And the screaming breaking apart of loved ones.
All I had were the orange groves
       That forested the hillsides.
What did I care about bitter skins?
       Or the orange-hoarding company that owned them?
I had a gang of third graders on muddy bicycles,
       Four-foot hoods wearing Ocean Pacific T's,
&


MalthusWolf
Fragrant trees by MalthusWolf Overgrown mansion by MalthusWolf Golden coast by MalthusWolf

KMCeci
Wildest eye by KMCeci muse's call by KMCeci DOVE by KMCeci

DominikaAniola
Arrrrr by DominikaAniola Tired of life by DominikaAniola Lakeview by DominikaAniola

Supiter95
Little Witch by Supiter95 Girl on Fire (Red Fire) by Supiter95 Ren by Supiter95

ArtsyAmbassadorArt
Flash Fiction - Frost Bites     My frantic footsteps disturb the surface of the wet, heavy snow that tires me as I run nonstop, full force.  My mind is spiraling downward, lungs’ heaving heavily outward, my pace is on autopilot with a destination set to anywhere except here.  I’m following no particular path and leaving a trail behind my terror.  I don’t know how long or how far I’ve been fleeing but it’s felt like forever.  While retaining escape velocity I dare to glance back.  Bursting from the bushes they’re still in pursuit; long-furred, ebony bodies with blood-red eyes and exhaling bated, bloodthirsty breaths.  My coat gets snagged on a branch, rubber-banding me backwards.  I kick the nearest beast’s face as I’m freed, driving it back for only briefly and jettisoning my right boot.  I say screw it to both garments and get ahead while time allowed.  The cold air was now nipping at my heels like ice-co Mind AstrayI’m lost
in the deepest,
darkest depths  of my
convoluted unconsciousness.
My eyes are open yet my mind is closed.
I’m whole, yet seemly incomplete.
My vision is veiled, my
brain train derailed.
I’m lost.
I’m trapped
in bad traffic;
the stalling of my thoughts
jamming up my nervous system.
They are stagnant, stiff, until suddenly
they kick into gear and veer off;
Racing, out of control.
I can’t pass through,
I’m trapped.
Towers in Terror - 9/11 RemembranceA remembrance poem for the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in 9/11/2001
Silence transitioned to screams on that day,
When two hijacked hulls of steel with entrapped innocents
Tore through the trade center towers in Manhattan.
The shattering of glass, crumbling of concrete,
Disintegrating of wood, and rending of beams
Deafened and endangered the people inside.
The air was then occupied by the shrill shrieks
From the horrified humans
And the roars from the jowls of death
That clamped on the bodies of three-thousand.
Story by story the structure succumbed,
The floor beneath giving way
Making ceilings shower shards
From the collapsing construction.
Responders chanced fate,
Acknowledging the uncertain outcome
Of their march into the madness.
The lives of those helpless
Rested in the rescuers who braved the blazes,
And navigated mangled mazes.
As the tower toppled conditions grew dire,
The towers toppling and bathed in fire.
Down they came wi


dramaticpeanut
Over My Shoulder by dramaticpeanut The Old Fan House by dramaticpeanut I Watched You Walk Away by dramaticpeanut

veracauwenberghs
:thumb585382726: Above the clouds by veracauwenberghs Beautiful decay by veracauwenberghs

DeLumine
Celestial Madness by DeLumine Elysian Fields by DeLumine Gathering Me by DeLumine
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Thank you for including me!