http://publicliterature.org A collection of only the finest literature! Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:08:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/29/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%ba-201-%e2%80%93-the-magic-instant-by-paulo-coelho/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/29/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%ba-201-%e2%80%93-the-magic-instant-by-paulo-coelho/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:08:11 +0000 Paulo Coelho http://publicliterature.org/?p=833 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 [...]]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/29/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%ba-201-%e2%80%93-the-magic-instant-by-paulo-coelho/feed/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/11/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%b0-200-animal-promiscuity-by-paulo-coelho/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/11/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%b0-200-animal-promiscuity-by-paulo-coelho/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:45:58 +0000 Paulo Coelho http://publicliterature.org/?p=803 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 [...]]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/11/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%b0-200-animal-promiscuity-by-paulo-coelho/feed/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/10/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%ba-198-so-what-do-i-actually-do-by-paulo-coelho/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/10/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%ba-198-so-what-do-i-actually-do-by-paulo-coelho/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:43:26 +0000 Paulo Coelho http://publicliterature.org/?p=740 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 [...]]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/10/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%ba-198-so-what-do-i-actually-do-by-paulo-coelho/feed/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/10/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%ba-199-how-the-city-was-pacified-by-paulo-coelho/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/10/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%ba-199-how-the-city-was-pacified-by-paulo-coelho/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:43:21 +0000 Paulo Coelho http://publicliterature.org/?p=745 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 [...]]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/10/warrior-of-light-issue-n%c2%ba-199-how-the-city-was-pacified-by-paulo-coelho/feed/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/09/nymph/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/09/nymph/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:53:39 +0000 nick_lisgaris http://publicliterature.org/?p=322 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 [...]]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/09/nymph/feed/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/09/aegean-lamentations-a-notebook/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/09/aegean-lamentations-a-notebook/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:52:50 +0000 nick_lisgaris http://publicliterature.org/?p=321   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 [...]]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/06/09/aegean-lamentations-a-notebook/feed/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/05/31/on-audible-patterns/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/05/31/on-audible-patterns/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:52:01 +0000 Edwin Cordevilla http://publicliterature.org/?p=747 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 [...]]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/05/31/on-audible-patterns/feed/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/05/08/sculpture/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/05/08/sculpture/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 06:39:34 +0000 Edwin Cordevilla http://publicliterature.org/?p=739 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. ]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/05/08/sculpture/feed/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/02/25/a-predator-that-flies-unfettered/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/02/25/a-predator-that-flies-unfettered/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:09:06 +0000 richard_cederberg http://publicliterature.org/?p=405 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 [...]]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/02/25/a-predator-that-flies-unfettered/feed/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/02/25/the-winner-stands-alone-chapter-vi-by-paulo-coelho/ http://publicliterature.org/2009/02/25/the-winner-stands-alone-chapter-vi-by-paulo-coelho/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:23:07 +0000 Paulo Coelho http://publicliterature.org/?p=624 ‘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 [...]]]> http://publicliterature.org/2009/02/25/the-winner-stands-alone-chapter-vi-by-paulo-coelho/feed/