

Andre Lamartin
- Dec 4, 2016
One Day To Be
She was my princess, my goddess, my love. The one I had waited for all along. A promise fulfilled of companionship and trust. Of laughter...


Andre Lamartin
- Dec 2, 2016
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
This poem was written by a loving son for his dying father. It is not an exhortation of rage; it is an exultation of life. An admonition...


Andre Lamartin
- Nov 26, 2016
Will History Absolve Him?
The greatest tragedy that can befall an egalitarian youth is to become the antithesis of himself as he ages. This is the story of an...


Andre Lamartin
- Nov 10, 2016
A Battle Cry Unheard
Outlandish campaign promises of yesterday, nonexistent policies of tomorrow. This is the leap taken by most newly elected Presidents. The...


Andre Lamartin
- Nov 9, 2016
A Voice For the Silenced: My Immediate Reaction to the US Presidential Election Result
Shock and silence are a married couple not on speaking terms. Therefore, at pivotal historic moments of great personal consternation when...


Andre Lamartin
- Nov 8, 2016
The Rhyme of Time
If loss could be counted in days, And absence measured in Time, The tyranny of memories would say, Time is an impossible rhyme. For what...


Andre Lamartin
- Nov 5, 2016
Galaxies to Explore
If the world is a planet, each human being is a galaxy. One of such depth, breadth and complexity only the divine can fully explore. The...


Andre Lamartin
- Nov 4, 2016
Diálogo com o Infinito
Não se cria sem sentir, não se sente sem criar. Todo amor tem seu preço, a solidão do acreditar. Crença essa um sofrimento, a ausência do...


Andre Lamartin
- Nov 3, 2016
Por um Amor Que Puro Fosse
Queria um amor que puro fosse, Puro fosse como o ar. A conjugar a todo tempo, Tempo este a perdurar, Ao infinito do horizonte, O...


Andre Lamartin
- Nov 1, 2016
Carpe Tempus, Carpe Vita
Time is the greatest treasure one can possess. Words to live by till our final rest. Even the richest are made poor when facing Death....


Andre Lamartin
- Oct 9, 2016
Creative Destruction
Music is the poetry of sound in time. Poetry is the silent melody of the soul. Painting is all the colors coalescing into one. Dancing is...


Andre Lamartin
- Aug 27, 2016
A Family Left Behind
Somewhere in the US there are two girls growing up without a father. Somewhere in the US there is a wife who still pines for her husband....


Andre Lamartin
- Aug 26, 2016
What Will Your Verse Be?
“Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish… What...


Andre Lamartin
- Jul 23, 2016
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Despite what conventional wisdom might have to say, Brando’s humility, sensitivity and self-deprecating nature gave him a profound...


Andre Lamartin
- Jun 24, 2016
Brexit
Na madrugada de hoje, a xenofobia venceu a razão. A minha incredulidade e estupefação perante os últimos acontecimentos só me permitem...


Andre Lamartin
- Jun 24, 2016
Today Europe is Less
In the words of John Donne: “No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod...


Andre Lamartin
- Apr 24, 2016
Res Ipsa Loquitur
A modicum of historical perspective seems to be conspicuously absent from the political coverage of the American presidential election....


Andre Lamartin
- Feb 17, 2016
The Book of Life is Brief
"The book of life is brief, And once a page is read, All but love is dead, This is my belief." Apollo Lamartin Newman 2003 - 2016 Friend,...


Andre Lamartin
- Dec 6, 2015
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
In the sanguine, albeit potentially unrealistic, expectation that the Paris Climate Change Conference may actually produce a legally...


Andre Lamartin
- Nov 28, 2015
Bob Marley´s The Wailers
If life in the big city is such a race to the grave, why push the pace? Sometimes it pays to pause, relax and take stock of your...


Andre Lamartin
- Oct 25, 2015
U2 in London
Stephen Hawking once said that we are all time travelers, always traveling headlong into the future. What he failed to mention is that we...


Andre Lamartin
- Sep 27, 2015


Andre Lamartin
- Sep 27, 2015
Beethoven´s 9th Symphony
It is at our time of greatest weakness that he have a chance to exhibit our greatest strength. Beethoven is a prime example of this moral...


Andre Lamartin
- Sep 24, 2015
David Gilmour Live - Pink Floyd
During some of the most introspective and contemplative moments of my life, Pink Floyd was always an inseparable companion. Not so long...