Warrior Of Light Issue nº 201 – The magic instant by Paulo Coelho
We have to take risks. We can only truly understand the miracle of life when we let the unexpected manifest itself.
Every day – together with the sun – God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day we try to pretend that we don’t realize [...]
Warrior Of Light Issue n° 200 - Animal promiscuity by Paulo Coelho
Recently I read an interesting polemic article in the American newspaper New York Times (25/03/2008). Written by Natalie Angier, the text is based on the research of prominent biologists and psychologists concerning monogamy. The conclusion that they reach is impressive: conjugal infidelity is present throughout the animal kingdom.
And that’s not all: studies have shown that [...]
Warrior Of Light Issue nº 198 - So what do I actually do? by Paulo Coelho
Sometimes readers complain that I say very little about my private life in this column. I do talk a lot – mostly about my questionings in the imaginary world. They insist: “but what’s your life like?” Well, then, for a whole week I went out with a notebook and jotted down more or less what [...]
Warrior Of Light Issue nº 199 - How the city was pacified by Paulo Coelho
How the city was pacified
An old legend tells of how a certain city in the Pyrenees mountains used to be a stronghold for drug-traffickers, smugglers and exiles. The worst of them all, an Arab called Ahab, was converted by a local monk, Savin, and decided that things could not continue like that.
As he was feared [...]
nymph
I am a river sailing turning you into nymph with
passionate tectonic balconies
radiance of
anguished lover
by gulls in the sand
unveil the path as the seer
body of light curves your gentle lines,
white hands sin the lust of black fields
the youth of sculpture and the ecstasy
reveals all of winepresses and grapes of love
like the memory of
dreams of flesh in [...]
aegean lamentations( a notebook)
THURSDAY
stolen soul fragments
grapes and figs
seaweed beds and sails
linear secrets snake skins
dressed you with silver and lace
stolen touch opium of lovers
dream-light eyes moon-shadow smiles
erotic ecstasy in the golden isles
i slept with you in velvet grass
and love was born forever then
TUESDAY
the sea is calm now dressed in green full of leaves like aqua flowers
coming out to the [...]
On audible patterns
i imagined these words even before I wrote them
that for instance there would be two lines for each stanza
that i would now be reading on the second stanza
as if i saw the poem even before it happened
when it happened after the children played and signified over the
world of grown-ups
when it happened after voices burst in [...]
Sculpture
Are you a thought
Frozen in bronze?
Or, are you an alloy of copper
And tin shaped to give flesh
To a thought?
When light touches you, is it
The metal that glows?
Or, the thought.
A Predator That Flies Unfettered
ANALOGY
(Seeing humanity through the eyes of a Hawk)
Don’t be troubled, vox populi has little
Effect on my cognitive state. Especially
Those bitter words and opinions disgorged
By nosy parkers, tattletales, and rumormongers,
Meant to malign, belittle, slander, and just plain
irritate the recipient.
I have learned from experience to pursue only
What sustains life. And in so doing I can reciprocate
In like fashion to [...]
The Winner Stands Alone : Chapter VI by Paulo Coelho
‘I promised I wouldn’t if you behaved in a more adult fashion and with due respect for my intelligence.’
He’s right. The adult thing to do would be to talk a little about herself. She might arouse the compassion that is always there in the mind of a madman by explaining that she’s in a similar [...]
