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Holiday Card Project 2012 by Heidi, journal
Holiday Card Project 2012
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
The Poet's Slumber by GhostWriter503, literature
Literature
The Poet's Slumber
Like Ophelia, I want to lay myself to sleep.
To enter a ship to a silent, peaceful land,
where sorrow is no more, and all the secrets that I keep
just vanish into sand.
I need not be crowned with lilies and roses
that speak of my innocence, or wear a white dress.
Watch, my breath fade, as my tired eye closes.
I have not been innocent and pure even less.
This life’s a prison, and I long to be free,
How I want to see when this dreadful gate closes,
I wish to leave existence behind me!
And for ever bless those whom dearly I love.
It is not giving up, merely passing on,
into another life, where all my flaws are left behind,
where I can fin
