Dear Friends,

Due to the pandemic we changed our plans and we are about to reveal the results of the Literary Contest Nature 2020-2021 by the end of May.

With our kind regards.

Thank you for the inspiration I recieved for nature conservation.

Thank you David!

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Official Trailer | Netflix

Enjoy.

I Dream

I Dream. With a bright day, round as the world,

with the seas bowing to the horizon,

with the dragonflies taken to the sea, taken by the wind,

that between tides it takes them to fly over the waters,

and me dreaming of dolphins that jump higher,

than memories, than distant mountains.

I Dream. With seaweed, that fraternally my feet involve,

like someone who embraces someone who is loved, as a calling,

and I Dream of dives in surface waters where

water music and Balearic sounds mix

with shrimp hormones and UV from the sun

in the colors of the corals ... that Dream of the day.

I surf these big Dreams ...

I Dream. With skies of hope, which are reflected in stones,

creations of art, insects, flying low, in Dreams,

and with black spiders hanging from precipices.

I Dream. With the warm air in the sky, soft as a burning life

and I hear footsteps on land, crackling, on grass,

my steps to the river,

where I get on a raft and paddle, paddle ...

I go on and on, among alders, undulating,

and splashes of cold, green water.

And finally, beyond the last corner of the river:

again the sea ... again to embrace somebody,

again we Dream…

Note: In a day of climate strike.

Enjoy.

Nature is our mother. It is our baby crib to where we “return” everytime we feel we need comfort and renewed hope. Hope: that feeling made of insights into a peaceful, happy and green future and present.

A tree help us to see the good “flavors” of a garden with her shadow that protects us from our stellar parent: the Sun.

He is also the source of our energy, he is also the source of our poetry; and poetry, maybe just another way of living or another tool to live in community.

Today, Covid-19 make us feel like a prey, thinking in a new condition inside a world built by mother nature. Hope, to face this reality is needed more than ever and we will move forward albeit not ignoring this new “map of life” and new mindset.

Our Contest Nature 2020/2021 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 prepare new relations of Nature and Love; Nature and Ecology; Nature and Energy; Nature and Friendship; Nature and Gardens; Nature and Cinema; Nature and Music and Nature and Family. Family, that fundamental asset during these pandemic times.

This year we would like to share with you some inspirational photos and “horizons” and we kindly invite all authors to visit the following places/websites:

https://www.lisbonlux.com/green-lisbon-10-beautiful-parks

https://www.proflowers.com/15-best-botanical-gardens-california

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_botanical_gardens_in_Canada

https://www.algarvefun.com/algarve-tips/top-beaches-algarve/

https://www.coastalliving.com/travel/california/best-beaches-california

https://www.worldwildlife.org/places/amazon

https://www.gorongosa.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peneda-Gerês_National_Park

Additionally, we invite all authors to Honor one cinema director, for example, Hoody Allen, specially considering the eventual relationships of Nature with his work. The work by Hoody Allen is inspirational because he portrays many aspects of Human Nature. Nevertheless, you are free to even criticize his work. Who knows, for example, if there is still a human characteristic, so inspirational, that should take him to give us the pleasure to see a new cinema creation? A new screenplot?

Details of Regulation 2020-2021:

1. 
   Participation in this contest is free.
   2. Any person from any country can participate as long as they submit work written in English.
   3. Each participant can submit a poem, without limit of words, and a short story, with a maximum of 3000 words. 
   4. 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 - 2020-2021'". Line spacing: single spacing; Letter dimension: 12; Type of letter: Calibri; in the body of the e-mail.
   5. The participating authors agree to receive e-mails in the future that have as their main purpose to advertise future literary initiatives.
   6. Award-winning finalists are entitled to a digital certificate.
   7. All the selected poems will be published in anthology, which will be available in PDF format (possibility to exist in Windows), with a cost of 2.5 € (payment of a donation by PayPal). Award-winning authors are entitled to a free version.
   8. Author rights: authors have their rights over the works published, in order 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 or any other Anthology or collection of Short Stories they want to publish in the future or online in the websites of the Organizers.
   9. Contest starting 15 October 2020.
2. Deadline for participation: 15 April 2021.
   11. Pre-finalists announced on 10 May.
   12. The final results will be announced on June 28 at http://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt and, when possible, at http://synchchaos.com/.
   13. The first one of each category will be entitled to a prize: artwork (an A4 painting) sent by mail and the first three classifieds will receive a digital certificate.

If you need help with your English or writing skills this year we have special external writing help by Shmavon Azatian.

Contact: shazzai@yahoo.com

Adjudicators

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

Word Poetry (Canada)

http://worldpoetry.ca/

Inspiring Photography

We thank you your participation in this Literary Adventure.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any question.

Because after the corner there is a garden.
Hope always green, albeit illusory,
although true in its subtle delicacy.

In Portuguese:

Porque após a esquina existe um jardim.
Esperança sempre verde, ainda que ilusória,
ainda que verdadeira na sua subtil delicadeza.

Here a music: "In the garden" by Max Richter

Enjoy.

There's a group to create a new app with information useful to understand the reality of Covid-19

https://github.com/WorldHealthOrg

Thank you.

Enjoy.

At the Zoo of Lisbon. 

En verde y gris

La ciudad que ignora la naturaleza
ignora la dádiva del oxígeno ...
La naturaleza que ignora la ciudad
ignora uno de sus bellos frutos ...

Cemento, arena, agua, clavo, acero frío,
movimiento, cena, pena, dolor, amor ...
Flor, planta, ave, humano, cóndor,
Todos, pedazo a lo largo del río ...

Entre la ciudad y el bosque
hay más en común que pedazos fríos:
Existe el calor del sueño,
sin tiempo, morada o resignación.

25 de abril de 2017

In green and gray

The city that ignores nature

Ignores the gift of oxygen ...

Nature that ignores the city

Ignores one of its beautiful fruits ...

Cement, sand, water, nail, cold steel,

Movement, supper, mourning, pain, love ...

Flower, plant, bird, human, condor,

Everyone, piece off the river ...

Between the city and the forest

There are more in common than chunks:

There is the heat of the dream,

No time, address or resignation!

25th April 2017

Enjoy.

A photo at the Zoo of Lisbon, 12th March 2020

Dyslexia semantics

There is the frustration of running but never coming.

The castration of creation asking for forgiveness.

The sudden impulse to not want to be in vain.

The sudden braking of who wants to lie down.

There is the inconsistency of loving life and death,

Whom by Destiny accepts such luck

And still the huge flower of the Alentejo

And the absence of those I no longer see.

But there is still the power of words

The strength of the spring that springs in summer

And the red blood red of my heart.

And there is the exchange of suffering for suffering

Through the eternal dawn, reborn,

Of whom it is for so long to write ...

Enjoy.

Dear readers and friends,

Here is the website of the WHO (World Health Organization)

https://www.who.int/

See you soon.

Reach Out To Your Dreams

It’s not an easy feat;

Considering the world we live in;

Full of distractions and discouragements

It’s not what you should give into;

Considering the aspirations you’ve always had;

Full of life and purpose

It’s not out of place to look into your perception;

Considering the fact that it’s where your dreams are first pictures

Full of desired revelation and fulfillment

So, see them happening

By finding them in your perception

Reach out to them: meaning…

Reach out to your dreams

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Please sent us your work (poem or short story) to our Literary Contest "Nature 2018-2019"

Bests.