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the project and the context

We invite you to contribute to this "small" green project: http://ppl.com.pt/en/prj/tanque-captura-agua   Do you know that the global warming is already a reality? Do you feel it? In California the almond trees are already dying due to the absence of water? In the seas, many fish already changed their behavior, moving to new areas where they can find their "best" habitat. In land change is slower but why not being part of a better future? Your "small" contribution, can make the difference!

What is good poetry? – Part I

This is the question that might have different answers, depending on whom gives the answer. A straight forward explanation, according to our beliefs might be: “good poetry is the one that expresses feelings”. As a consequence, you might think, and we agree, that taking this explanation into account: i) good poetry is like a portrait of feelings, and ii) it is something that has an impact on someone and that results of both the creation of the poet and the eyes of the observer of the piece of art. Looking carefully to the book “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll we will find a poem immediately before Chapter I. For example: “A tale begun in other days,     When summer suns were glowing – A simple chime, that served to time     The rhythm of our rowing – Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say ‘forget’” We might be wrong but, we think, poetry do not need to have rhymes and certainly needs to make us feel something, in order to be recognized as something w...

Sample Book - by Shmavon Azatyan

Here you can find a sample book by Shmavon Azatyan, winner of the Nature 2015 Contest. Please contact the author to have the full length book. https://www.docdroid.net/58FWIBi/livro-2016-shmavonfinalshortseptember.pdf.html   Enjoy.  

Free sample

A free sample of the book "Rainbow Flavours and Other Scents" by the Armenian Writer Shmavon Azatyan is now available here:   https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9wzdncrd8ccl   Enjoy.

Nature 2016

Follow us at: http://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt/data/rss   Dear Friends, It is with great pleasure that today I inform you that the International Literary Contest "Nature 2016" has begun! Unfortunately, regardless of the efforts of many people all across the globe, our mother land, planet earth,  continues under the threat of the non sustainable activities that all of us believe are needed to our daily life. In this context, the text of this contest in 2015 deserves to be published again here ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ The forest breaths and as a result the planet Earth also breaths, giving us the oxigen that we need to live.  During the Winter, in the north of the planet, where the majority of the dry land exists, many trees  lose their leafs and the carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere producing a small increase in global temperature.  During the Spring and Summer all the trees of the planet gro...

New poetry book

Soon we will start spreading the word about the book "Rainbow Flavours and Other Scents" the Armenian Writer Shmavon Azatyan Certainly, one of the most inspiring Poetry Books of 2016.

Days of our year

Last 21 September was the World Day of Poetry, World Day of the Forest and World Day of the Tree.   We invite you to send us your poetry work: ruiprcar@gmail.com   Thanks.