Announcing the 2016 International Nature Writing Contest, sponsored by authors Rui Carvalho, Sara Rodriguez Arias, and Janine Canan and by Synchronized Chaos Magazine.  

We are searching for a new Lord Byron, who can go forth, creating poetry to praise nature and those who love her.

Beauty of nature is one of the nights imperishable, one of the endless days, with horizons made of sands on the shore.

The forest can be seen as a hospitable home, inhabited by humble virtues.

But, for those whom poetry doesn’t love, it matters not.

And this is why we seek high-quality poetry; poetry that expresses feelings with the strength of the undying masterpiece. No injury can befall that timeless poetry, made with the most pure water of the creativity’s fountain.

Please submit your original poetry or short tales here.

Please help support the nonprofit project we have chosen as a beneficiary of this contest, an organic orchard in Albanil, Portugal, in buying a rainwater capture tank to irrigate sustainably without using power.

Rainwater Capture Tank Project for a Sustainable Organic Orchard

 

MoLight

 

Light that baths me in the early morning

Stretch thy wings above my sky, my blue,

Their violet, my sea, my piece of gold.

Dreaming flight; quantum illusion with logic.

 

When I have thou I’m a careless bird;

Caring, only, about atmospheric peace.

Despite thy glorious solar love-gift,

Carrying with him a portrait of distant days.

 

I’m baled by thy pureness and strength;

When compared to thou, dust I am, or nothing,

Something, only, with ephemeral life!

 

Thy reflected lye in my eyes is so vain…

As are my stretched hands, thou and thy gladness,

Made of magical travelling particles.

 

Notes:

Thy – ‘your’ in old English;

Thou – ‘you’ in old English;

Please submit your original poetry or short tales here.

Please help support the nonprofit project we have chosen as a beneficiary of this contest, an organic orchard in Albanil, Portugal, in buying a rainwater capture tank to irrigate sustainably without using power.

Rainwater Capture Tank Project for a Sustainable Organic Orchard