Rasa,your work is thought provoking and outstanding.
May you publish more,so the world may see how immensely talented you are.


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Hi Rasa. Good to hear from you again!
Any ideas for the poetry challenge? I wondered about 'Advice to my younger self!?' Whadda think?

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Hi John and Rasa

I just added my 'Tears' poem.

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Hi Rasa.
I have decided to publish the 10 line poem on tears and tag it #tears in case anyone wants to take up the challenge! Not sure it will catch on with Writeoutloud.net but will give it a go! 😀

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Okay poetry challenge- Stephen, John and anyone else who is keen? 😃

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Hi Rasa. Thanks for your positive response. I love the idea of having poetic challenges. Gets the creative juices flowing! Could we get Stephen Gospage to set the next one, do you think? Cheers Rasa. 😀

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I enjoyed your 'Bus Crush' poem so much, Rasa that I decided to accept the 'crush' challenge. It is called
'Retirement Time Crush. I hope you like it but it;s not as good as yours!😀

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Dear Rasa

Thankyou for your kind comments on 'The Pavements of Europe'. I wrote this poem in the New European newspaper to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2019.
Here is a short piece that I wrote to accompany it at the time.

Good to hear from you and all the best for your poetry and life.

'The context

2019 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the fall
of the Berlin Wall. This led to the collapse of the one-party states of Eastern Europe and to fundamental changes to the lives of millions of people who are now EU citizens and are firmly embedded into the European family. The transition process inevitably had its shortcomings. European integration is imperfect and sometimes seems to stall. And yet, would anyone want to go back to the chilling realities of the pre-1989 system?

The poem

The start of the poem is based on recollections of a visit to Prague, in the former Czechoslovakia, in the mid-1980s. The cold, damp weather only added to the sense of darkness and oppression, which seemed to find expression in the regimented stamping of workers' boots and the belching exhaust fumes of the buses. The second and third verses recall trips to Budapest and Warsaw in 1993 and 1994; things were changing, life was becoming freer and more colourful and new businesses were thriving. However, rampant (though perhaps inevitable) inequality had been created. The disparity between the glitzier parts of cities and the urban and rural poor was extraordinary at the time, although sadly it has been increasingly emulated in certain parts of the Western World in the 21st century. This disparity was even more apparent during several visits to Ukraine in the late 1990s; the sight of impoverished yet irrepressibly optimistic women trying to sell a loaf of bread on a busy street in the centre of Kiev remains an abiding memory.

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Many thanks for your kind comments on 'Flora and fauna', Rasa, only recently spotted. I hope to include this poem in a collection about the Burma-Thailand railway and other war-related poems, to be published later this year.

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Thanks for the comment, accolade indeed from such an illustrious writer ?

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Thanks for the further comments on my profile page.
One point - the book cover you refer to ("Poetry to Please") is,
in fact, a CD cover and uses a photograph taken by me in the
delightful riverside town of Dartmouth in South Devon, UK.
Some of the tracks from the CD can be heard in the audio section
of my profile.
By the way, an Aussie local "country music" radio station in
Victoria has played some of my songs. Hats off to Trudy Burke
in St. Albans!!

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Just been catching up on my profile page and wish to thank you
for your kind comment about "Thoughts At Christmas".
You seem to be an exceedingly busy and gifted individual...well done..
MC

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hey, thanks for your views and precious time taken to read my poem. it means a lot to me. I truly agree that poems and other excerpts are a way to express love and thanks towards nature.

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Hi Rasa, thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read my poetry. Lost was written while I was grieving for my Father.

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Hi Rasa, thanks for reading 'Why Poems?' and for your kind comments about it. It popped straight out after reading this entry by our WoL comrade Vautaw:

https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=96591

I've enjoyed many of your poems so far, it's great to have you here and I always keep an eye out for your work. ? Tom

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Thankyou for your kind thoughts on my Profile page poem, "Ikea", Rasa. You'll no doubt realise it is straight copy of Dusty Springfield's. I don't think the Profile page has audio but if you would really like to hear how appalling my voice is:-
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=29018

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Dear Rasa

Thanks for your kind comments about my poems. Yes, I suppose "Memory Tax" is a little dark. It's a subject which interests me. In spite of the digitalisation of archives and data bases, I sometimes feel that there is a collective or institutional memory (perhaps just in the form of story-telling) which needs to be nurtured and which is in danger of being lost.

It was a pleasure to discover your fascinating profile. You seem to pack a lot into your life! I always look forward to seeing a new poem of yours on the blog. I don't necessarily check in every day but I will keep an eye out.

All the best

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