http://libremagazine.com Free Online Publication for Literature, Arts & Photography Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:55:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In days and time when I can really think , I find myself sulking for new horizons There is hope ,solidarity and the tingling enigma of a patriot Then comes a place in time where the parent of enthusiasm is perpetual hope. I see reflections staring back at tangled theologies. The urgency ... http://libremagazine.com/poems/solitary-confinement/ It was a few days ago when I was offered the authorship for the fifth Libre column. The fifth column covers security issues and political strategies, which became a core of the international media due to the Russo-Georgian conflict. Then, I chose "Long Castling" as the title of the fifth ... http://libremagazine.com/articles/long-castling-the-meaning-of-the-title/ I was waiting for some friends to have lunch together in a little nice restaurant. They called and said they would be late, so I had enough time to do..nothing. I kept checking the menu and checking the people from time to time. The place was not crowded but yet ... http://libremagazine.com/ramblings/beautiful-stranger/ She wrote the last sentence of her letter and looked at her neat handwriting on the white sheet. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and set the paper free out of her hands and watched its flying like a white delicate butterfly. She knew it would never reach ... http://libremagazine.com/short-stories/lost-letter/ A postman Defeated a million times by the days of his own life Wrapping a stinky coat around his aging shoulders Sitting in a tired, melancholic post office Is thinking One can never forget the soft touch of someone’s hands Its been decades I used to write to her Sitting at the corner of a shiny night In that ... http://libremagazine.com/poems/letters-of-a-postman/ The relationship between the Haves and Have not’s Traditional evidence based on macro economic data draws an inflated positive relationship between investment in road transport infrastructure and economic development. Recent studies based on the developed world moderate this impact by exemplifying that a rise in infrastructure investments by 3-4% percentage points ... http://libremagazine.com/columns/road-infrastructure-and-economic-development/ First snowflake of the year. She focused her looks on the calendar to confirm the date once more - - 3rd of February - - her birthday. She woke up earlier today although it was weekend. She opened the curtains to a white world and started to watch the snow ... http://libremagazine.com/short-stories/snowflake/ She looked out of the window. Her hands clasped firmly on the grills. Black worn-out flakes stuck on her fingers as she tightly held on to the iron railings. The cacophony of children playing in the adjacent playground drowned all other sounds. She searched herself among them, but she knew ... http://libremagazine.com/articles/a-voice-unheard/ Death – a very horrid but truth, such that it is almost impossible to like. The fear of physical pain and misery forms an enclosure around us, so much that we fail to do anything about it and in effect, keep ourselves more engaged in worldly affairs for undying distraction. No ... http://libremagazine.com/articles/suicide/ Given the freedom of speech, I write this article NOT from the ANTI-Russian perspective. I am aware that many civilians (2000 plus at the time of writing) have died in face of the Russian attacks. Some of my friends have fled Georgia, while some still stay in the country. At ... http://libremagazine.com/articles/beyond-right-or-wrong-the-russian-georgian-conflict/