Creative Writing & Short Stories & Poetry

Reflections in Words

« Here you will find short stories and poems — glimpses into life, culture, and imagination. They help to uncover your thinking, a view on the world and your own perception. Some writings are playful, some reflective; all are invitations to wander through ideas and human experience. Only excerpts are shared here — consider them whispers, not the full journey. Enjoy reading, reflecting, and discovering. »

Featured Excerpts:

“ Utopia in eggshell”
« Let’s admire these gigantic banyans, eternally green and let’s extol the Spanish moss, pendant from a hundred years old oak, in the middle of gardens, surrounded by outlandish ferns. Add to this a pinch of purple colour on the evening sky, sprinkle two ounces of a nightingale’s trill and dilute all with one-third of ocean breeze. And we get the Floridian version of Poussin’s landscape!« 

“ A tight shoe”
« Today Cupid will be a bartender, ha!?”, he smiled at Linda and banged enthusiastically with his hand on top of the counter. “We go to dinner at “La Faena” tonight!”Linda blushed and smiled the sweetest smile…[Read more]« 

“ Crime without Punishment or the art of a compromise”

«Entre le subtile et le ridicule il n’y a qu’un pas »…

‘’From the cycle « The echos »”
 » The prologue is the past

You feel, you know, you own it.

Be glad : it never lasts,

But through it you are grown…[Read more] »

“Plurilogue”

« Cicero: dear participants, I want to introduce a new predicate, please : « They say that what matters to us is not what we see, but what it is. » And I say : it is not what we read, but what it is. So, would you please debate on this subject ? Let’s start. Who wants to bring into existence his very point of this obviously argumental premise ? »

« If these excerpts intrigue you, consider them a taste of the literary worlds we explore at Cogo LiberA — in workshops, courses, and private sessions. Every piece has a story, waiting to be discovered fully in the right context. »