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Our Contest Nature 2025-2026 is a new opportunity that we, as organizers, create to reach the rest of the world. Every Contest is a challenge for authors participating and to people that make it happen. This year we invite all authors to write poetry about:
(i) Flowers;
(ii) Trees and wind;
(iii) Water;
(iv) Nature Conservation;
(v) Turtles;
(vi) Love for people and nature;
(vii) Hope and Happiness.

This year we would like to share with you two inspiring photos:

Details of Regulation 2025-2026:

a) Participation in this contest is free.
b) Any person from any country can participate, submitting work written in English.
c) Each participant can submit a poem, without limit of words, and a short story, with a maximum of 3000 words.

d) The works must be sent by e-mail to blogsnat@gmail.com along with name, country, electronic contact. The subject of the email should be "International Literary Contest 'Nature 2025-2026'". Written in the body of the e-mail.
e) The participating authors agree to receive e-mails in the future that have as their main purpose to advertise future literary initiatives.

f) Award-winning finalists are entitled to a digital certificate.

g) All the selected poems will be published in anthology, which will be available in PDF format (possibility to exist in Windows). Award-winning authors are entitled to a free version. Any person can have it with a cost of 2.5 € or 2.75 USD (payment of a donation by PayPal), that will be used to plant trees. Editions of previous editions are available.
h) Author rights: authors have their rights over the works published, to publish as they want in any other place. The organization of the contest retain total rights over the published works in the context of the Anthology of the Contest in any format.

i) Contest starting 31 December 2025.
j) Deadline for participation: 15 August 2026.
l) Pre-finalists announced during September 2026.

m) The results will be announced during October 2026 at http://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt and, when possible, at http://synchchaos.com/.

n) The winning work, poem or short story, will be entitled to a prize: a collection of digital artworks.
o) The first three classifieds will receive a digital certificate.

Adjudicators

Green Fox

and

Amy S. Pacini

Organizers

Synchronized Chaos (California – USA)
http://synchchaos.com/

Rui M. at Tales for Love (Lisbon – Portugal)
http://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt/
contact: ruiprcar@gmail.com

We thank you your participation in this Literary Adventure.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any question.

Enjoy.

https://www.projectopenair.org/

To help build oxigen concentrators:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_concentrator#How_oxygen_concentrators_work

This is a blog dedicated to literature and nature, based in Portugal, so it is fully justified to look at Spain. We went to see how the writer Cervantes (of Don Quijote de la Mancha) marked this country. We went to Anadalucia and we noticed how its main city, Seville, honors its writers. We saw beautiful plains, warm, like fire, and flowers hung in beautiful pots,  next to monuments with poetic gardens.

This poetic nature reminds us of Peru, with Leo Rojas (El Condor Pasa) and his music always very sister of the forest and the wild mountains.

And all this makes us remember Emily Dickinson and Massachussets.

Here we have more about her:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson

We end with a poem from Poland, by Eliza S.

Translated by Artur Komoter

Just for a Moment

If the world stopped for a moment,

I could sit,

listen to the silence that becomes,

watch how

a river stops flowing,

how the trees congeal into motionlessness.

If the world stopped for a moment,

and I with it?

I would not see

flowering meadows,

where a river becomes just a line,

and the still trees

look like sculptures,

I would not hear the ubiquitous silence.

If the world stopped

even for one day

then people –

could not hurt people.

Tylko na chwilę

Gdyby świat zatrzymał się na chwilę,

mogłabym usiąść,

posłuchać jak staje się cisza,

patrzeć jak

rzeka przestaje płynąć,

jak drzewa zastygają w bezruchu.

Gdyby świat zatrzymał się na chwilę,

a ja razem z nim?

Nie widziałabym

ukwieconych łąk,

na których rzeka staje się tylko linią,

a nieruchome drzewa

wyglądają jak rzeźby,

nie słyszałabym wszechobecnej ciszy.

Gdyby świat zatrzymał się

choć na jeden dzień

wtedy ludzie –

nie mogliby krzywdzić ludzi.

Translation to Portuguese by Rui M.

Apenas por um momento

Se o mundo parasse por um momento,
Eu poderia sentar-me
ouvir o silêncio que surgiria
e observar como
um rio pára de fluir
e como as árvores se detêm em gélido imobilismo.

Se o mundo parasse por um momento,
e eu com ele?
Eu não veria
prados floridos,
onde um rio se torna apenas uma linha,
e as árvores imóveis
fossem semelhantes a esculturas,
Eu não ouviria o silêncio omnipresente e total.

Se o mundo parasse
mesmo por um dia
então as pessoas -
não poderiam ferir as pessoas.

Bests.

Forest fires in California have been an example of climate change. We can not forget this situation and above all we can not become indifferent people. We have here a video that aims to encourage our individual work in such a way that we will all achieve something positive. For example, if each one of us plants a tree and water it we will do a lot and even if we can sow some trees, it would be excellent.

And don't forget to submit your writing to our Contest "Nature 2017-2018"

About trees and hope Music by Mattia Cupelli "Touch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYHk_D5A44