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    Sinning Stone
    Sinning Stone
    Sinning Stone
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    Sinning Stone

    By Shpetim Kastrati

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    Shpetim Kastratis poetry constitutes a deep investigation of the world and the circumstances impacting it. An evocative and deeply meditative experience which readily emerges amidst a system of symbols and phenomena, his lines create warm and poetic flashes in the readers mind.

    All verses are weaved with multiple semantic techniques and layers, requiring the readers concentration in order to peel back the vague and divergent trails that can only be unlocked by those possessing a considerable intelligence and sophistication.

    Everywhere, in every line and in every verse, one finds emotion as well as concentrated and serious meditation contained within a logical framework which resonates with the reader in the form of a deeply troubled soul. This powerful echo leaves an unmistakable presence in our creative consciousness."

    Luan Kola
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 26, 2013
    ISBN9781483699554
    Sinning Stone
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    Shpetim Kastrati

    Shpetim Kastrati was born on August 17, 1959 in Albania. He has resided in the United States since 1999, and currently lives in Palm Harbor, Florida with his family. His literacy activity started on 1997 and continues to be very abundant. He has published 8 books including six poetry books and two novel books in English and Albanian language. His preferred writing subject is poems and novels related to his life experience with his country of origin and his new life in the USA. He has accumulated a very large writing experience Including essays, critique articles and other literary subject. Shpetim Kastrati continues to write and being very active in literary works. Until today, he has published the books as follows: 1. QIELLI I KRISUR. Poezi 1997, Albania (FLAKY SKY. Poems) 2. VAJZA E VALEVE. Poezi 2003, Albania (THE GIRL OF WAVES. Poems) 3. PELLUMBAT E EGER. Poezi 2003, Albania (WILD PIGEONS. Poems) 4. MEKATI I GURIT. Poezi, 2011, Albania (SINNING STONE. Poems) 5. TRISHTIMI I QESHUR. Poezi, 2012, Albania (SMILING SADNESS. Poems) 6. BISHTI I GJARPRIT. Tregime, 2012, Albania (SERPENT’S TAIL. Novels) 7. SMILING SADNESS. Poems, 2012 USA, E-Book Time, LLC 8. NEPER QOSHET E KOHES. Tregime, 2013 Albania (RECESSES OF TIME. Novels)

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      Sinning Stone - Shpetim Kastrati

      Copyright © 2013 by Shpetim Kastrati.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2013916471

      ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4836-9954-7

                      Ebook            978-1-4836-9955-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 09/17/2013

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      CONTENTS

      Whispering Epidamnos

      Lines Of Poetry

      The Riverbank

      Bulls

      Prelude

      Somewhere In A Corner Of The World

      Intermezzo

      Samuel

      The Verge Of Autumn

      A Portrait

      Nasreddin

      Longing

      A Calm Sea

      White Shadows

      The Beggar

      The Awakening Of Spring

      The Illyrian Goddess

      A New Song Of Kosova

      Apollonia In The Morning

      After The Rains

      The Stonemasons

      Spring

      Since The Very Beginning

      Intermezzo

      Fieri

      Shakespeare

      I Am Saying The Truth

      There Where Lilies Seek To Open As Men’s Arms

      Vast Fields

      Meditation

      Half Of The Moon Making For Africa

      The Seagull

      The Captain

      Unwritten

      A Game With Horses

      New York

      London

      Paris

      The Carpenter

      Firenze

      My Small Home River

      A Short Elegy In Milano

      Scanderbeg

      The Jinn’s Fountain

      The Adult Girl

      Ali Pasha Tepelena

      My First Line Of Poetry

      Ithaca

      Beautifying Life With Flaming Beauties

      Tirana

      Monaco

      Only Mirrors Know Women’s Secrets

      A Poem

      I Won’t Come Back Tonight

      When Night’s Umbrella Burns

      You Are A Freshly Opened Orange

      A Feeling

      Birds Dancing

      When Tyrants Go Crazy

      Ecstasy

      Swamps

      Dry Rivers

      Ministers

      Unpainted Walls

      We Lost What We Lost In The Sea

      Rusty Years Stinking

      Knots

      Lost Traces

      Ancient Evidence

      Sins Of Stones

      Sliding

      Tempests

      Curls

      Stationing In The Party Cantonment

      Midday

      The Stars Also Dim

      This Time

      Roots And Smokes

      Sunday

      Saving Soul

      We Live Lives Like We Were On Stages

      Spartacus

      The Blind General

      History

      War Games

      A Fairy Tale

      The Bottle In The Sea

      Slaying Fears

      The End Of August

      To Young Poets

      Dogs’ Times

      Evil Hours

      Savage Stars

      The Other Shore

      Ribbons

      Lions

      It Resembled The Wind…

      Pondering On A Peace Conference

      Yellow Light

      Fleeing

      Chestnuts

      A Painting In The Tax Office

      On The Eve Of The Year 2010

      Sisyphus

      Seven Skins

      Devil’s House

      The Lyre

      Omphale

      Smiling Sea

      The Monkey

      Cleopatra

      The Caves Of Troy

      Sickness

      Lonesome Progeny

      Roman Boots

      Double-Edged

      WHISPERING EPIDAMNOS

      Probably dolphins were not the first

      To set foot in Epidamnos, for Romans

      Had often come here before with fortresses by sea,

      Horrifying the fish; then Byzantines,

      Using a tunnel of veins, succeeded

      In extending their heads in the heart of Epidamnos

      And could keep a close watch on the Romans.

      That happened in vicious years when clouds

      Were measured by treasures in an emperor’s dream,

      Often visiting Epidamnos, clinging

      To hot quartzes sometimes by blood and sometimes

      By fires burning crowns in mirrors.

      They collected notes written on rocks by winds

      And rains, peering into every inch of the mystery

      Of speech through a chink in my land’s roof board

      Fallen from an old mountain with the stars,

      Still feeling the pulse of the conciliated time slowness.

      Anyhow, people make salt and grow corn here.

      The color of fish comes like a silver whisper.

      The sea moans over its mosses,

      Getting naked, cool, and mysterious now and then.

      LINES OF POETRY

      And so, by choosing simple, obvious words

      And putting them to paper,

      We come up with a web,

      A web and a melody

      That doesn’t fail, but through surprise,

      Serves goodness without avoiding pain,

      The pain that never ends

      Until we grow old beautifully,

      Caressed by light.

      Oh, the light that has subdued

      Despair so perfectly

      And tries to reach the soul, that deep sky.

      THE RIVERBANK

      Clovers and alimentary plants grow here.

      Shrubs, half of a man’s height, keep the wool of sheep

      That should have bitten

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