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Echoes 2008-03-09 11:58:22 Silence echoes through and through,
Empty destitution,
Years of life’s abusive needs,
Discarded resolution,
A vacant sheet of paper,
Complete with vacant words,
A feeling that meanings,
Get lost among the herds.
Atop a lovesick mountain,
Breezes brush my lips,
If I’m to fall I’d be lost,
With dolphins, waves and ships,
Call on those who are closest,
Ignore the whispers track,
The only voice I can trust,
When [...]
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Dancing Still 2008-03-08 08:27:52 One moment you were on your sagging porch
cavorting to the sturm und drang of an August
strangler. Cymbals clanged and thunder clapped,
telling us it would be your final performance.
Telling you? Rain! you sang with all the voice
you had left. Rain!! God, but I love
a good storm. Lightning pale and lightning
thin, light as the wisps of mist-silvered [...]
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Welcome Paulo Coelho - Bestselling Author 2008-03-07 14:12:11 PublicLiterature.Org is proud to announce it’s newest member, PauloCoelho
. Just to list a few of Mr. Coelho’s major literary accomplishments, I’ll quote his biography page:
“To date, Coelho has sold a total of 100 million copies and, according to the magazine Publishing Trends; he was the most sold author in the world [...]
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Excerpt from TRUE BLUE FOREVER 2008-03-07 12:01:24 Jeana and Mickey generated heat from the beginning.
Take when they met. It was almost the second quarter of the 1978-79 school year, and the temperature still hovered near ninety. Even for southern Alabama, that kind of heat was unusual for so late in October. The box fans at both ends of the room in Mrs. [...]
May I introduce myself? 2008-03-05 16:46:42 belong
(senryu by Rebecca Lerwill)
totally unknown
a book changes everything
now I’m introduced
Hello there,
A few days ago I found an invitation to join publicliterature.org in my inbox. Honestly, I never heard of such website before, but after looking things over I was thrilled that someone suggested to me to join this bunch of very talented writers.
So here I [...]
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The Murder Of Linen, a novel by Constantine Sult 2008-03-05 13:49:57 The Murder Of Linen
is my thirteenth novel
and one of the many currently represented by Brown Paper Publishing A very supportive press, any copy of the novel purchased through their site or my own site includes a FREE $5.00 Visa Giftcard. It is also available through most any other source, but [...]
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Excerpt from Amber Shadows and the Missing Wands 2008-03-04 19:09:56 “Whosoever is in possession of thy book, read thy words carefully, take a second look…. Thou shall falter if thy heart is untrue….”AmberShadows
is your typical “Magia” White Magic teen until she discovers three books written by one of her extraordinary White Magic ancestors. Dangerous secrets of her family’s past are unlocked. Amber is [...]
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Stolen Justice 2008-03-03 18:04:41 Wilma slipped into a row of seats halfway between the large entry door and the prosecutor’s table. She inched to the middle, sat and clutched her purse to her chest. Her eyes roamed the backs of the men seated in front of the judge’s bench. He was there.
She squeezed her eyelids tight into slits and [...]
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Excerpt from: “Madeline West - Light Hearts Live Long” by Katalyn Louis Parks 2008-03-03 18:03:54 – Chapter 1 –
As far back as Madeline West could remember she had always been the best. From kindergarten, right through high school and then eventually becoming an FBI agent, she had always been the top of her class. And if only as much could be said about her associate, the pair would make a [...]
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, Louis
, Parks
Shalom Tower Syndrome (Award finalist in National Best Books 2007,USAbooknews) 2008-03-03 14:16:09 Alexis, who grew up in Rwanda-Urundi, is the son of an Italian Jew and a beautiful mulatto woman. As a young adult, he now ponders over the complexity of his roots: African-European and Judeo-Christian (his mother was raised a Catholic). The author guides the reader through a progression of exciting and complicated episodes involving Alexis. [...]
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, Shalom
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The Immigrants’ Daughter 2008-03-12 14:52:13 “Where do you come from?” asks the teacher of the adult class in Leopoldville, where I am registered for a course in Lingala. I hesitate.
It is a simple query that puts me in a quandary. Should I state my origins, nationality or citizenship?
“From my mother’s womb,” I want to tell him in short, but resist [...]
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Inscriptions 2008-03-12 11:55:56 Ancestral memories
Held securely within
Primordial archives
Of All-That-Is -
Remnants of lives
Thought long past -
Begin to beat.
Percussive rhythms
Start chakras spinning
And colors whirling;
Earth becomes ecstatic
As shamanic waves
Inundate Alpha-Self
And constellations waltz.
The Alchemist laughs
Transmuting base
To etheric energy
While lovers and poets
Dizzy in hypnotic,
Kaleidoscope sensations -
Spinning, awakening.
Smiling, our Source
Walks the winds
And a new world
Is spontaneously born -
Carefully embossed
With mystical inscriptions,
Like eternal [...]
Excerpt from DIFFERENT ROADS 2008-03-12 09:15:55 WHOSE ASS DO WE HAVE TO KISS TO GET A SOFTBALL FIELD?
Jaycee Stevens smiled at the shocked expressions her sign generated from all the baseball fans as she stepped onto the field in her softball uniform. Good, and she hoped it embarrassed the hell out of the school board officials who were there to unveil [...]
Soaring Eagle, Spirit of the Wind 2008-03-11 19:29:35 Soaring Eagle
, Spirit of the Wind is the telling of two quests. Rosalie, a self-destructive woman, is summoned into the spirit world where she must develop the will to battle the greatest of all foes, herself, a battle she is destined to lose if not for the aid of the shaman, Soaring Eagle. Soaring Eagle, [...]
A Time Piece 2008-03-11 15:56:40 A Time Piece
(a haibun)
By a spiteful hand
A stone broke my hourglass…
No time left for dreams
An old man and stray dog, share the shelter of an oak, as a dismal rain steadily falls. The man pats the dog on the head. The dog wags his tail and licks the man’s hand. Both become lost in memories [...]
Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel’s Ballads 2008-03-11 12:18:40 Following is an excerpt from Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel
’s Ballads
- a book about awakening to one’s authenticity using ecologic tenets as guidance.
Nature’s goal is a sustained state of dynamic equilibrium; your goal is a sustained progression along the ever-evolving expression of your highest level of authenticity. Nature has self-regulators [...]
Why I Write by Rebecca Lerwill 2008-03-10 13:07:24 Dear friends,
If you are a writer, you have probably found yourself being asked “Why do you write?”
If you are a reader, you probably have asked someone before “Why do you write?”
I have been asked that question and usually could just raise my shoulders and say “I don’t know; pleasure, compulsiveness, wanting to entertain, [...]
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WHO PAID THE PRICE ? 2008-03-10 12:57:23 Of course, you did.
Your ancestors had on the shackles,
the leg irons,
the ball and chain.
It really wasn’t you that suffered
the pain of crossing the sea
in the hole of a ship
caged like animals.
Separated from families
with nothing to gain.
The villan set [...]
Book Review: A Brother’s Journey 2008-03-14 18:11:22 A Brother
’s Journey
, Richard B. Pelzer, Warner Books, NY: Time Warner, 2005
It is not often that I am at a loss for words. Yet weeks after finishing A Brother’s Journey, I am struggling to find a way to describe the horror and sorrow the story evokes. Ordinary terms feel wrong. Children were tortured. [...]
Give it a Week 2008-03-17 08:44:21 ‘Give it a week’ is a piece of advice I heard many years ago when I was starting out as a freelance writer. I believe the phrase is commonly used in advertising agencies, though as I’ve never worked in one of these myself I can’t confirm this - I simply read it in a book, [...]
De-iced, now What? 2008-03-17 08:43:50 It was as if she were a comet,
then he,
then she,
on and on, orbiting
faster and faster,
first gathering ice, then burning
it away by veering close
to the sun.
First he,
then she,
then up for grabs.
Neither chose to be
a comet. Certainly
not a pair.
What, and be content
to find pieces of oneself
flying into ether
while others loosen
from their moorings?
Admit the stratosphere
made him [...]
THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL 2008-03-16 12:58:41 Basically, human development is concerned with working out inwardly our experiences of the external world and thereby developing the inner qualities that makes us human.
While the external world provides the initial experiences, it is within our inner nature that the work that carries us forward has to be done.
We have to wrestle with our problems [...]
The Pilgrimage (Complete and Free!) 2008-03-17 20:34:27 Dear readers,
You can now browse the full edition of The Pilgrimage
(courtesy of Harper Collins).
Therefore, you can read the first pages (or the full edition). This link will be there till the 10th of April. On the next months, we are going to have full editions online of all my titles published in English.
Love,
Paulo
FAREWELL ALEXANDRIA 2008-03-17 20:33:09 As the sun rises over the Egyptian coastline, one of the world’s largest yachts steams towards Alexandria. Standing on it’s upper deck is Julius Caspard, billionaire oil tycoon and philanthropist who is returning to the city where he was born on his 80th. birthday. And as he gazes at the approaching waterfront, he recalls [...]
You Love Me 2008-03-20 13:04:20 You love me – you say
in your arms I sway
because your eyes don’t lie
and I close mine with a sigh.
You need me – you say
letting your fingers play
and your lips whisper an oath
a promise to be kept by us both.
You want me – you say
unclaimed passion every day
under my skin white as snow
the fast [...]
Excerpt from “Tiffany’s Wish” by Katalyn Louis Parks 2008-03-23 14:09:54 Time seemed to stop. It did that a lot now a days. Now Tiffany
’s thoughts had turned to dust she had no will to do anything more than what she felt she had to. And time stopped for her to catch up. As she sat in the centre of her room, she breathed heavily and [...]
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, Parks
The Mystic Muse 2008-03-22 17:04:06 The Mystic
Muse
Soaring in and out of the rainbow colors in my mind;
Sprinkling stardust ideas; calling on image-breezes;
Spinning the word mill at Spirit-to-Spirit confluence;
Swaying suggestions on branches of composition tree;
Slowly dripping teardrop thoughts from sprigs of Weeping Willow;
Raining down joyful verse from our nimbostratus mindscape;
Pounding out anxious rhythms on a spring Grouse’s thunder;
Skipping across [...]
Your lap, Your Chinese Checkers 2008-03-22 12:46:35 The little eggshell bungalow
sporting the racket-making swing,
pink and blue hydrangeas
big as conch shells
and a woman who knew
a child needed
- to be held — to be fed -
- to be sat in a corner -
- to be let out to dream
in the shade of a sweet-smelling
magnolia -
The little eggshell bungalow
that never moved
that never changed
the child knew
- [...]
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